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For your Consideration: Ohio
In honor of one of the Horses (coworker) making us try the Skyline Chili ice cream this morning, I feel like I need to introduce everyone to Skyline Chili.
If you are not from Ohio, I wouldn't blame you for thinking "what is skyline chili," "why is there a chili ice cream," "isn't Ohio where the Hell is Real sign is?" or "surely its just chili. It can't be that weird.."
Introducing The 3 Way
Skyline Chili is a famous chain restaurant from Cincinnati, Ohio. Its selling point is its chili, which is just meat and sauce but features things like cinnamon, clove, and chocolate in the flavor palate. It is sweeter than you think, but it is also better than it sounds.
Skyline is served in 2 main ways. A coney/chili dog. Normal. And a 3 way. Yes, you order a 3 way at the establishment. A 3 way consists of the following:
plain spaghetti noodles
the chili in question
about a 5 inch tall pile of freshly finely shredded cheddar cheese.
the flattest plate you can imagine, so your noodles and chili are constantly spilling off the sides of the plate.
An optional Skyline brand bib the waiter will put on you if you ask It rules. I love Skyline. In writing this post I have accidentally made myself crave Skyline.
Here she is. That plate is not built to support this level of noodle.
So now there's an ice cream.
Also famous Ohio chain Graeter's has created an ice cream inspired by the unique spices included in Skyline. And by inspired, we mean they made a cinnamon, allspice, clove, and chili powder ice cream with some oyster crackers in it. It's kind of like pumpkin spice.
The verdict in the office is that they should have included the cheese. 6/10 experience.
A helpful chart.
This is not the most haunted ice cream to come out of Ohio. That would be Jeni's Everything Bagel ice cream.
This has been your Ohio fact of the day. Sorry. Why is the Midwest like this?? I don't know. Am I now imagining the worst Scoopy experience ever? Yes
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wikipedia says they’re also called “water crackers” but im sorry that is simply wrong
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MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2024!
MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2024 (in no particular order)
Chime School- The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
Mary Timony- Untame the Tiger (Merge)
Weak Signal- fine (12XU)
Dummy- Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
The Softies- The Bed I Made (Father Daughter)
The Tyde- Season 5 (Spiritual Pajamas)
Best Bets- The Hollow Husk of Feeling (Meritorio)
Jessica Pratt- Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
Ducks Ltd- Harms Way (Carpark)
Peter Perrett- The Cleansing (Domino)
The Sharp Pins- Radio DDR (self released)
Lightheaded- Combustible Gems (Slumberland)
Beachwood Sparks- Across the River of Stars (Curation)
The Reds, Pinks and Purples- Unwishing Well (Slumberland)
The Infinites- Archetypes (Meritorio)
The Lemon Twigs- A Dream is All We Know (Captured Tracks)
Redd Kross- S/T (in the Red)
Yea-Ming and the Rumors- I Can't Have it All (Dandy Boy)
Humdrum- Every Heaven (Slumberland)
Jim Nothing- Grey Eyes Grey Lynn (Meritorio)
WAIT HERE'S 20 MORE!
Lovejoy- ..and it's love! (Shelflife/Spinout Nuggets)
Class - A Healthy Alternative (Feel It Records)
Bloodstains- S/T (self released)
The Hard Quartet- S/T (Matador)
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band- Loophole (Modern Sky)
The Resonars- Electricity Plus (self released)
Mythical Motors- Seven is Circular (self released)
Sad Eyed Beatniks- Ten Brocades (Meritorio)
Club 8- A Year with Club 8 (self released)
Torrey- S/T (Slumberland)
Pale Lights- Waverly Place Jigsaw)
The BVs- Taking Pictures of Taking Pictures (Shelflife)
Deep Tunnel Project- S/T (Comedy Minus One)
Mt.Misery- Love In Mind (Prefect)
Winged Wheel- Big Hotel (12XU)
Lunchbox- Pop and Circumstance (Slumberland)
Tears Run Rings- Everything in the End (Shelflife)
Nada Surf- Moon Mirror (New West)
Savak- Flavors of Paradise (Ernest Jenning)
Kevin Robertson- The Call of the Sea (Futureman)
AAAAAAND....HERE'S 10 MORE!
Steve Wynn- Make It Right (Fire)
Pernice Brothers- Who Will You Believe (New West)
Laughing- Because It's Better (Celluloid Lunch)
Outer World- Who Does the Music Love? (HHBTM)
Rachel Love- Lyra (The Cat Collects)
Wussy- Cincinnati Ohio (Shake It)
The Armoires- Octoberland (Big Stir Records)
Boyracer- Seaside Riot (Emotional Response
Being Dead- Eels (Bayonet)
Quivers- Oyster Cuts (Merge)
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MY 15 FAVORITE REISSUES/COLLECTIONS OF 2O24
The Saints- I'm Stranded box set (In the Red)
Galaxie 500- Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90 (20/20/20)
Shop Assistants- S/T (Chrysalis)
Birdie- Some Dusty (Slumberland)
The Rain Parade- Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Label 51)
The Ladybug Transistor- Albermarle Sound (Merge)
Love Child-Never Meant To Be (1988-1993) (12XU)
Velocity Girl- Ultracopacetic (Sub Pop)
East Village- Drop Out (Heavenly)
A Girl Called Eddy- S/T (Last Night From Glasgow)
David Kilgour- A Feather in the Engine (Merge)
Linda Smith- Nothin Else Matters (Captured Tracks)
The Fluid- Clear Black Paper (Sub Pop)
Drop 19's- Delaware (Wharf Cat)
High Llamas- Hawaii (Drag City)
MY 5 FAVORITE EPS OF 2024!
R.E. Seraphin- Fool's Mate (Safe Suburban Home/ Take a Turn)
Finnogun's Wake- Stay Young (What's Your Rupture)
Cori Elba- Full Stop (self released)
Slack Times- Gone Things (Meritorio)
Surfing Pointers- S/T (BirthDIY)
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Holidays 9.27
Holidays
Ancestor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Honor Your Ancestors Day)
Answering Machine Day
Arbor Day (US Virgin Islands)
Banana Slug Day
Battle of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
Bloodstone Day
Book Matches Day
Castor 927 Day
Crush A Can Day
Dave Matthews Band Day
Day of Preschool Employees (Russia)
Doris Day Day (Cincinnati, Ohio)
European Myeloma Day
1stLinePit Pitch Day
French Community Day (Belgium)
Fun and Fancy Free Day
GNU Day
Google Commemoration Day
International SEO Day
Julien Alfred Day (Saint Lucia)
Lendemain du Magal de Touba (Sénégal)
Manit Day (Culture Day; Marshall Islands)
Memorial Day (Azerbaijan)
Morning Show Hosts Day
National AJ Day
National Boccia Day (UK)
National Butt Plug Day
National Day of Forgiveness
National Doodle Day
National First Responder Appreciation Day
National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Mustache Day
National 911 Telecommunications Suicide Awareness Day
National No Excuses Day
National Prescription Take-Back Day
National Scarf Day
National Youth Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
NICU Giving Day
Oski the Bear Day (Berkeley)
Polish Underground State’s Day (Poland)
Post and Telecommunications Service Day (Indonesia)
Shut Up and Let Somebody Else Talk Day
Venom Day
World Freight Train Day
World Pet Day
World Tourism Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Chocolate Milk Day
National Corned Beef Hash Day
National Cats Curry Day (UK)
Saloon Day
Tabasco Sauce Day
Independence & Related Days
Consumación de la Independencia (End of Independence War; Mexico)
Elleore (Declared; 1944) [unrecognized]
Glebiania (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Mexico (Date Consummated, 1821)
Turkmenistan (from USSR, 1991)
Zekia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
4th & Last Friday in September
Ask a Stupid Question Day [Last Weekday]
Butterbrot Day (Germany) [Last Friday]
Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]
Field Trip Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Finally Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Five For Friday [Every Friday]
Flapjack Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Flatbread Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Flirtatious Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]
Friday Finds [Every Friday]
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
FSC Friday [Last Friday]
Go Gold Day [Last Friday]
Hug A Vegetarian Day [Last Friday]
Love Note Day [4th Friday]
Make Way Day [Last Friday]
Michigan Indian Day (Michigan) [4th Friday]
National BRAVE Day [4th Friday]
National Good Hair Day (Australia) [4th Friday]
National Hug Your Boss Day [4th Friday; also 9.13]
Native American Day (California) [4th Friday]
Save the Koala Day [Last Friday]
Sport Purple For Platelets Day [Last Friday]
TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]
Vegan Baking Day [Last Friday]
World's Biggest Coffee Morning (UK) [Last Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning September 27 (4th Full Week of September)
National Drive Electric Week [f.k.a. National Plug-In Week] (thru 20.6)
Festivals Beginning September 27, 2024
Anderson County Burgoo Festival (Lawrenceburg, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
Apple Festival (Gays Mills, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
Beach n' Chili Fest: ICS World's Championsihp Chili Cookoff (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) [thru 9.29]
Cannstatter Volksfest (Stuttgart, Germany) [thru 10.13]
Chester County BBQ Festival (Henderson, Tennessee) [thru 9.28]
Chicago Gourmet Hamburger Hop (Chicago, Illinois)
Chilhowie Community Apple Festival (Chilhowie, Virginia) [thru 9.29]
Coca-Cola Days (Atlantic, Iowa) [thru 9.28]
Downtown Chandler Oktoberfest (Chandler, Arizona) [thru 9.28]
Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival (Ithaca, New York) [thru 9.29]
Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival (Galway, Ireland) [thru 9.29]
Georgia State Fair (Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia) [thru 10.6]
Harvest Festival & Parade (Arroyo Grande, California) [thru 9.28]
Harvest Festival & Street Fair (Emmett, Idaho) [thru 9.28]
Honeybee Festival (Paris, Illinois) [thru 9.29]
International Sandsculpting Championship (Virginia Beach, Virginia) [thru 10.6]
Irmo Okra Strut Festival (Irmo, South Carolina) [thru 9.28]
Joy of Jazz (Johannesburg, South Africa) [thru 9.28]
Las Vegas Greek Food Festival (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 9.29]
Marino Grape Festival (Marino, Italy) [thru 10.7]
Marion County Country Ham Days (Lebanon, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
Mississippi Pecan Festival (New Augusta, Mississippi) [thru 9.29]
Monterey Jazz Festival begins (California) [Last Friday thru Sunday]
Morgan County Sorghum Festival (West Liberty, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival (Albuquerque, New Mexico) [thru 9.28]
New York Film Festival (New York, New York) [thru 10.14]
Oktoberfest (Waterloo, Iowa) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest (Yachats, Oregon) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest in Canada (Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada) [thru 10.19]
Pumpkinfest (South Lyon, Michigan) [thru 9.29]
River Falls Bacon Bash (River Falls, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
Saint Charles Oktoberfest (Saint Charles, Missouri) [thru 9.29]
Sisters Folk Festival (Sisters, Oregon) [thru 9.29]
State Fair of Virginia (Doswell, Virginia) [thru 10.6]
Texas Rice Festival BBQ Cook-Off (Winnie, Texas) [thru 9.28]
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival, Boardwalk Weekend (Virginia Beach, Virginia) [thru 9.29]
Warrens Cranberry Festival (Warrens, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
WineFest (North East, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.29]
Feast Days
Adheritus (Christian; Saint)
Aequinoctium Autumnale I (Pagan)
Bernard Waber (Artology)
Birth and Rebirth Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Caius of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Martyrs)
Elzear, Count of Arian, and Delphina, his wife (Christian; Saints)
Feast of Eileithyia (Minoan Midwife Goddess)
Feast of Mashiyyat (Baha’i)
Fergus Mac Roith (Celtic Book of Days)
Festival of Namakungwe (The Originator; Zambia)
Festival of Varuni (Goddess of Wine; India)
George Cruikshank (Artology)
Horacio Sandoval (Artology)
Hieronymus Bosch Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Insult a Narcissist Day (Pastafarian)
Irvine Walsh (Writerism)
Jack Goldstein (Artology)
Jim Shooter (Artology)
Jim Thompson (Writerism)
Meskel (Discovery of the True Cross; Eritrea, Ethiopia)
Mookie (Muppetism)
Moon Hare Festival (Everyday Wicca)
Romano Scarpa (Artology)
Sesage (Positivist; Saint)
Sophie Crumb (Artology)
T.C. Cannon (Artology)
Thanksgiving Day for Disappearance of Kelp-Koli Again (Shamanism)
Thomas Nast (Artology)
Vincent de Paul (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Abominable (Animated Film; 2019)
The Affair, 16th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2011)
Bananaphone, by Raffi (Children’s Album; 1994)
A Bird in a Bonnet (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)
Bongo (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Boogie Woogie Man (Song Symphony Cartoon; 1943)
Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen (Autobiography; 2016)
Caballero Droopy (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1952)
Chilly’s Hide-A-Way (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1971)
The Cleveland Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Animated Film; 2013)
Cracker (UK TV Series; 1993)
Dolly! (TV Series; 1976)
Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (Music TV Series; 1973)
Don’t Stand So Close to Me, by the Police (Song; 1980)
Elementary (TV Series; 2012)
The Fever Code, by James Dashner (Novel; 2016) [Maze Runner #5]
Fun and Fancy Free (Animated Disney Film; 1947)
The Garden of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1931)
The Goal Rush (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)
Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1939)
The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Movie)
The Invisible Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)
The Journey of Natty Gann (Film; 1985)
The Karate Guard (Tom & Jerry WB Cartoon; 2005)
King of the Mardi Gras (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)
The Last King of Scotland (Film; 2006)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Novel; 1935)
Memphis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1912) [1st Blues Song]
Mickey and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Monster, by R.E.M. (Album; 1994)
Mumbo Jumbo (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1970)
New Jersey, by Bon Jovi (Album; 1988)
Nightmare, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1938)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film; 1939)
Ran (Film; 1985)
Ringo's Rotogravure, by Ringo Starr (Album; 1976)
Rush (Film; 2013)
Sand and Foam, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1926)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series; 2007)
Silent Spring (Nature Book; 1962)
Sweet Home Alabama (Film; 2002)
Tepee for Two (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)
Thanks for the Memory, by Bob Hope (Song; 1938)
The Tonight Show (TV Talk Show; 1954)
2 Days in the Valley (Film; 1996)
Under the Table and Framing, by The Dave Matthews Band (Album; 1994)
The Village Barber (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog MGM Cartoon; 1930)
We Didn’t Start the Fore, by Billy Joel (Song; 1989)
Wet Blanket Policy (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1948)
Today’s Name Days
Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Austria)
Berislav, Gaj, Vincent, Vinko, Vinko (Croatia)
Jonáš (Czech Republic)
Cosmus (Denmark)
Elo, Loone, Õrne (Estonia)
Vesa (Finland)
Vincent (France)
Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Germany)
Akylini, Epicharis, Kallistratos, Zenon, Zinon (Greece)
Adalbert (Hungary)
Cosma, Damiano, Vincenzo (Italy)
Ādolfs, Ilgonis, Ronalds (Latvia)
Adalbertas, Damijonas, Daugilė, Kęsgailė, Kovaldas (Lithuania)
Dagmar, Dagrun (Norway)
Amadeusz, Amedeusz, Damian, Kosma, Przedbor, Urban (Poland)
Antim (Romania)
Cyprián (Slovakia)
Vicente (Spain)
Dagmar, Rigmor (Sweden)
Cosima, Cosimo, Cosmo, Damian, Damiana, Damien, Damion, Damon (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 271 of 2024; 95 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of Week 39 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 27 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 25 (Jia-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 24 Elul 5784
Islamic: 23 Rabi I 1446
J Cal: 1 Orange; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 14 September 2024
Moon: 22%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 19 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Miss Edgeworth]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 6 of 90)
Week: 4th Full Week of September
Zodiac: Libra (Day 5 of 30)
Calendar Changes
Orange (Month 10 of 12; J Calendar)
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Cincinnatians Pitied Yet Feared Predatory ‘Bucket Gangs’ Begging For Beer
There are regular complaints these days about aggressive panhandlers soliciting funds at various locations around town. It will be of little comfort to learn that beggars of that ilk have operated in Cincinnati for ages. During the late 1800s, the most aggressive were even organized. Since their ultimate goal was to fill a bucket with beer they were known as “bucket gangs.” According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [27 August 1882]:
“The ‘Bucket Gang’ are a bad lot, known to the police and saloon-keepers, particularly the latter. Their business, while an old one, improves like all others of a more legitimate character, in that some ingenious member invents a new scheme every now and then, by which a drop of ‘bugle paint’ can be secured. The ‘Bucket gang’ are, in more polite terms, men who will do any thing for a drink, and drink most any thing that resembles or tastes like liquor.”
[As an aside, that term, “bugle paint,” is not much in use these days. It refers to the ability of alcohol to turn the drinker’s nose (his “bugle”) red.]
Bucket gangs ranged from pitiable to dangerous. It cost eight to ten cents to fill a standard pail, known as a growler, with beer, providing one drink apiece for four men. Of course, “standard” covered a lot of territory in those days, so a growler might be an actual bucket of some sort, or it might be an oyster can or some other suitable receptacle.
Members of the bucket gangs were disinclined to find a paying job and so they spent a great deal of time devising assorted schemes to cobble together a dime’s worth of change to fill their suds bucket. A national publication, the Illustrated Police News [13 February 1886] catalogued several stratagems cooked up by Cincinnati bucket gangs.
“A scheme that is worked in Cincinnati is called the ‘bridge game.’ A beat will station himself about a square from the Ohio River bridge and stop every passerby with, ‘Won’t you please give me enough money to cross the bridge? I can get a job of work in Covington or Newport, but the bridge has to be crossed.’ Hardly a man will refuse a plea of this kind, so they are almost always successful.”
The Police News related the story of a bucket gang left high and dry in the middle of the Courthouse Riot of 1884, with not a penny between them to slake their thirst. Finally, one of their number had an inspiration. He appointed one of the gang to go to his house and tell his mother that he had been shot in the riot and it would cost a dollar to bring him home.
“They were all loud in their praise of his excellent suggestion. One started at once for the fellow’s home. Going up two flights of stairs, a rap on the door soon brought Mrs. J_____. He told a pitiful tale of how her son was shot, and the patrol wagons were so busy carrying away the dead that they could not bring him home, but there was an expressman on the corner who would bring him home for a dollar. His distracted mother could not give the dollar quick enough. Her son was brought home that night, but not shot – only half-shot.”
Another ruse was known as the stamp racket. In this endeavor, the bucket gang split up, each going to a store or business to ask for a stamp so he could send a letter to his dear mother, or his sister or some other relative. Few shopkeepers failed to be moved by such heartwarming tales and soon the gang had enough stamps to trade for some amber refreshment.
The Enquirer offered a few more examples of dipsomaniac creativity. For example, it was common practice for a saloon-keeper to stack his emptied beer barrels on the sidewalk in front of his place so the brewery driver could grab them quickly and haul them back for refill. The bucket gangs knew that “empty” was never totally empty, so the cold light of dawn often found a crew tipping the exhausted kegs nearly vertical to capture the few remaining precious dregs.
Another once-successful dodge had fallen into obsolescence by the 1880s because it had been used too often and saloon-keepers were wary of it. Among the best solvents for whitewash was stale beer and those men in the trade usually had an agreement with a neighborly barkeep to save any sudsless lager for his use. The bucket gangs would send one of their younger members into a likely saloon to explain that he was helping his dear old father on a whitewashing job and would there be any stale beer around? Sometimes the publican turned over the dregs and sometimes he chased the beggar down the street.
Sometimes, whether because they were out of stratagems or because they were incapable of devising one, bucket gangs descended to brute force and the Cincinnati police courts were full of such miscreants. It appeared that almost every neighborhood had its own variation on the bucket gang.
Scott Gerhardt was accosted in 1883 by a bucket gang based on Hunt Street in Pendleton. He was surrounded while the gang leader asked for a dime. While complying with the demand, Gerhardt pulled $1.35 from his pocket, all the money he had. According to the Enquirer [25 September 1883]:
“This one of the gang grabbed and succeeded in escaping with it after a severe tussle in which the victim was roughly dealt with.”
The Sixteenth Ward bucket gang, usually congregating around the corner of Court and Cutter Streets in the West End, attacked Eugene Sturgeon, a Cincinnati Water Works employee, one February night in 1886. Sturgeon, on his way home from work, recognized the gang and tried to run away, but was felled by a tossed brick. Thinking they had killed their victim, the gang scattered, but Sturgeon recovered enough to make his way home.
The Commercial Tribune [5 September 1881] reported a tussle between Officer James Dunn and four members of a bucket gang who had commandeered a canal boat tied up between Vine and race streets as their headquarters. As Officer Dunn attempted to arrest the ringleader, a fellow named Pete Nolan, the other three jumped him and, despite their various degrees of inebriation, were getting the best of him. Dunn drew his revolver and fired one shot, striking a conscientious citizen who was rushing to his aid. Dunn maintained his grip on Nolan and managed to deliver him to Central Station. The injured civilian was treated at the city hospital.
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Actual American Foods that Non-Americans Find Strange
So, after I saw a frankly shit poll made by a British person in response to a different Brit poking fun at their own food, I decided to make an actual poll of American foods that were:
a) relatively widely available and popular (some are more regional than others, but I tried to keep it to just a few) b) uniquely American in origin* c) not intrinsically tied to race or class in the US (i.e. no soul food, fast food, or products like Twinkies)
Reblog if you vote!
Explanations and descriptions below the cut.
California Roll: invented in California in the '70s, this is a uramaki style sushi roll with crab (real or imitation), cucumber, and avocado wrapped in nori and sushi rice.
Taco Salad: Invented in Texas in the '60s. A fried taco shell/bowl filled with lettuce and taco toppings such as rice, shredded chicken or pork or ground beef, salsa, cheese, guacamole, beans, sour cream, diced tomatoes, etc.
Rocky Mountain Oysters: Deep-fried bull testicles. A bit cheating, because this is eaten all through North America, not just the US, but it's still a very popular(?)/common thing in the more Western states.
Cincinnati Chili: Invented by Greek immigrants in the 1910s, this is more of a sauce than a thick chili. A meat and tomato paste commonly served over spaghetti, often with options like cheese, beans, and/or onions.
Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich: A staple of general kid lunches. A sandwich of peanut butter and a fruit jelly of one's choice. (Peanut butter is not really a big thing outside the US, so I had to include it.)
Bananas Foster: Invented in New Orleans in the '50s. This is cooked bananas and ice cream with a butter-and-brown-sugar rum sauce that gets flambéed when it's served.
Corn Dog: Invented c. the 1930s, this is a hot dog dipped in a cornmeal batter and fried.
Root Beer: Root beer (distinct from sarsaparilla) was invented sometime in the 1840s- this dark soda has a distinct taste that often comes across as medicinal to those who didn't grow up with it.
American Cheese: Invented in 1916 by James L. Kraft. This is made from traditional cheeses and processed into a uniform cheese- the slices are sort of plasticky, but regular slices from the deli counter are pretty normal. Especially common for grilled cheese or cheeseburgers.
I picked all these foods as things I have eaten (except for the Rocky Mountain Oysters...).
*American dishes are, by their nature, almost entirely made from the experiences of immigrants bringing traditional foods over and adapting them to local ingredients and tastes. These dishes I chose have some international inspirations, but aren't things that one would find in the Old Country.
#food#american food#food poll#british food#survey#culture#i'm not going to at the OP of the shitty poll#but it sucked#so i'm fixing it
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"I thought this fancy ass food was supposed to taste good, though it taste like shit." Surge couldn't understand how anyone found this enjoyable, not to mention there was barely anything there. "Don't you have, like, a bunch of chiefs? Not one of them can make a decent fuckin meal?"
"Surge, these are just appetizers, and one's you picked despite me mentioning how you might not enjoy the flavors." Blaze was finding it more challenging each day to deal with the other's abrasive nature.
"I'll decide what I like and don't like when I fuckin try it. I tried it and it taste like shit, so why should I expect anything else to taste good?" Surge didn't even understand half the things on the menu so picked three at random. If not one tasted good how was she to expect anything else to.
Blaze would just inhale, taking a deep and slow breath before speaking. "Since it seems are food aren't refined enough for your palate, what do you recommend?" The cat was starting to reach her limit and was aware this was a bit spiteful.
"See if someone can make a decent cincinnati chili with oyster crackers for the side, and a sweet tea with some lemon in it." Surge had zero clue how she even knew that, though it kinda just popped into her head.
"Yeah, Surge really knows her food so you picked the wrong fight. I want a small plate of the same thing please." Kit was used to Surge listing off foods like these, even if she herself didn't know what they really were. The fennec could only assume more of her memories were popping up. They just wish there was something they could do to make the process faster.
Blaze on the other hand was shocked at the sudden order, followed by feeling embarrassed at Kits comment. It seemed she was making the awful mistake of judging a book by it's cover. "Yes, the chiefs should be able to do that, on moment, and I do apologize if I came off as rude." The cat would motion to the waiter and request Surge's order, along with a small plate for Kit.
"You ain't the first to underestimate how awesome I am, but I'm willing to cut ya some slack this time." Normally Surge would hold this over someone's head for days, though wasn't gonna miss out on a free meal. That, and Blaze had been letting them crash at the castle.
"Well, I appreciate that, and will try not to do so in the future." Blaze was sure Surge had other reasons keeping her abrasive nature in check, though was thankful she did. It seemed the Princess had much to learn about the two after all.
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Skyline Chili flavored ice cream combines two Ohio favorites
Ohio-based Graeter's Ice Cream announced on Friday, January 24 that its newest flavor, “Skyline Spice,” is a collaboration with another Cincinnati icon, Skyline Chili. “This quirky, yet amazing creation combines Graeter's French Pot handmade ice cream with Skyline's oyster crackers. signature chili spice blendoffering the best of both worlds from these two beloved Cincinnati destinations,” said a…
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Skyline Chili flavored ice cream combines two Ohio favorites
Ohio-based Graeter's Ice Cream announced on Friday, January 24 that its newest flavor, “Skyline Spice,” is a collaboration with another Cincinnati icon, Skyline Chili. “This quirky, yet amazing creation combines Graeter's French Pot handmade ice cream with Skyline's oyster crackers. signature chili spice blendoffering the best of both worlds from these two beloved Cincinnati destinations,” said a…
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Skyline Chili flavored ice cream combines two Ohio favorites
Ohio-based Graeter's Ice Cream announced on Friday, January 24 that its newest flavor, “Skyline Spice,” is a collaboration with another Cincinnati icon, Skyline Chili. “This quirky, yet amazing creation combines Graeter's French Pot handmade ice cream with Skyline's oyster crackers. signature chili spice blendoffering the best of both worlds from these two beloved Cincinnati destinations,” said a…
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Skyline Chili-with ice cream includes two shows
The cold-cell’s ice-cream Frarater oils were announced on Friday, Jan. It is that the greatest sweetness, “Skyline spices,” and cooperation with another picture of cincinnati. The “remarking creation includes Farmer Col Clearch and Oyster Crackers and Skyline’s Signatory Chi Spiceto give all the countries around the world from the two skins. “Said the media from Graption. “Everyone who knows has…
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Holidays 9.27
Holidays
Ancestor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Honor Your Ancestors Day)
Answering Machine Day
Arbor Day (US Virgin Islands)
Banana Slug Day
Battle of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
Bloodstone Day
Book Matches Day
Castor 927 Day
Crush A Can Day
Dave Matthews Band Day
Day of Preschool Employees (Russia)
Doris Day Day (Cincinnati, Ohio)
European Myeloma Day
1stLinePit Pitch Day
French Community Day (Belgium)
Fun and Fancy Free Day
GNU Day
Google Commemoration Day
International SEO Day
Julien Alfred Day (Saint Lucia)
Lendemain du Magal de Touba (Sénégal)
Manit Day (Culture Day; Marshall Islands)
Memorial Day (Azerbaijan)
Morning Show Hosts Day
National AJ Day
National Boccia Day (UK)
National Butt Plug Day
National Day of Forgiveness
National Doodle Day
National First Responder Appreciation Day
National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Mustache Day
National 911 Telecommunications Suicide Awareness Day
National No Excuses Day
National Prescription Take-Back Day
National Scarf Day
National Youth Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
NICU Giving Day
Oski the Bear Day (Berkeley)
Polish Underground State’s Day (Poland)
Post and Telecommunications Service Day (Indonesia)
Shut Up and Let Somebody Else Talk Day
Venom Day
World Freight Train Day
World Pet Day
World Tourism Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Chocolate Milk Day
National Corned Beef Hash Day
National Cats Curry Day (UK)
Saloon Day
Tabasco Sauce Day
Independence & Related Days
Consumación de la Independencia (End of Independence War; Mexico)
Elleore (Declared; 1944) [unrecognized]
Glebiania (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Mexico (Date Consummated, 1821)
Turkmenistan (from USSR, 1991)
Zekia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
4th & Last Friday in September
Ask a Stupid Question Day [Last Weekday]
Butterbrot Day (Germany) [Last Friday]
Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]
Field Trip Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Finally Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Five For Friday [Every Friday]
Flapjack Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Flatbread Friday [Last Friday of Each Month]
Flirtatious Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]
Friday Finds [Every Friday]
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
FSC Friday [Last Friday]
Go Gold Day [Last Friday]
Hug A Vegetarian Day [Last Friday]
Love Note Day [4th Friday]
Make Way Day [Last Friday]
Michigan Indian Day (Michigan) [4th Friday]
National BRAVE Day [4th Friday]
National Good Hair Day (Australia) [4th Friday]
National Hug Your Boss Day [4th Friday; also 9.13]
Native American Day (California) [4th Friday]
Save the Koala Day [Last Friday]
Sport Purple For Platelets Day [Last Friday]
TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]
Vegan Baking Day [Last Friday]
World's Biggest Coffee Morning (UK) [Last Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning September 27 (4th Full Week of September)
National Drive Electric Week [f.k.a. National Plug-In Week] (thru 20.6)
Festivals Beginning September 27, 2024
Anderson County Burgoo Festival (Lawrenceburg, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
Apple Festival (Gays Mills, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
Beach n' Chili Fest: ICS World's Championsihp Chili Cookoff (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) [thru 9.29]
Cannstatter Volksfest (Stuttgart, Germany) [thru 10.13]
Chester County BBQ Festival (Henderson, Tennessee) [thru 9.28]
Chicago Gourmet Hamburger Hop (Chicago, Illinois)
Chilhowie Community Apple Festival (Chilhowie, Virginia) [thru 9.29]
Coca-Cola Days (Atlantic, Iowa) [thru 9.28]
Downtown Chandler Oktoberfest (Chandler, Arizona) [thru 9.28]
Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival (Ithaca, New York) [thru 9.29]
Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival (Galway, Ireland) [thru 9.29]
Georgia State Fair (Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia) [thru 10.6]
Harvest Festival & Parade (Arroyo Grande, California) [thru 9.28]
Harvest Festival & Street Fair (Emmett, Idaho) [thru 9.28]
Honeybee Festival (Paris, Illinois) [thru 9.29]
International Sandsculpting Championship (Virginia Beach, Virginia) [thru 10.6]
Irmo Okra Strut Festival (Irmo, South Carolina) [thru 9.28]
Joy of Jazz (Johannesburg, South Africa) [thru 9.28]
Las Vegas Greek Food Festival (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 9.29]
Marino Grape Festival (Marino, Italy) [thru 10.7]
Marion County Country Ham Days (Lebanon, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
Mississippi Pecan Festival (New Augusta, Mississippi) [thru 9.29]
Monterey Jazz Festival begins (California) [Last Friday thru Sunday]
Morgan County Sorghum Festival (West Liberty, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]
New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival (Albuquerque, New Mexico) [thru 9.28]
New York Film Festival (New York, New York) [thru 10.14]
Oktoberfest (Waterloo, Iowa) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest (Yachats, Oregon) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.29]
Oktoberfest in Canada (Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada) [thru 10.19]
Pumpkinfest (South Lyon, Michigan) [thru 9.29]
River Falls Bacon Bash (River Falls, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
Saint Charles Oktoberfest (Saint Charles, Missouri) [thru 9.29]
Sisters Folk Festival (Sisters, Oregon) [thru 9.29]
State Fair of Virginia (Doswell, Virginia) [thru 10.6]
Texas Rice Festival BBQ Cook-Off (Winnie, Texas) [thru 9.28]
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival, Boardwalk Weekend (Virginia Beach, Virginia) [thru 9.29]
Warrens Cranberry Festival (Warrens, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]
WineFest (North East, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.29]
Feast Days
Adheritus (Christian; Saint)
Aequinoctium Autumnale I (Pagan)
Bernard Waber (Artology)
Birth and Rebirth Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Caius of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Martyrs)
Elzear, Count of Arian, and Delphina, his wife (Christian; Saints)
Feast of Eileithyia (Minoan Midwife Goddess)
Feast of Mashiyyat (Baha’i)
Fergus Mac Roith (Celtic Book of Days)
Festival of Namakungwe (The Originator; Zambia)
Festival of Varuni (Goddess of Wine; India)
George Cruikshank (Artology)
Horacio Sandoval (Artology)
Hieronymus Bosch Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Insult a Narcissist Day (Pastafarian)
Irvine Walsh (Writerism)
Jack Goldstein (Artology)
Jim Shooter (Artology)
Jim Thompson (Writerism)
Meskel (Discovery of the True Cross; Eritrea, Ethiopia)
Mookie (Muppetism)
Moon Hare Festival (Everyday Wicca)
Romano Scarpa (Artology)
Sesage (Positivist; Saint)
Sophie Crumb (Artology)
T.C. Cannon (Artology)
Thanksgiving Day for Disappearance of Kelp-Koli Again (Shamanism)
Thomas Nast (Artology)
Vincent de Paul (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Abominable (Animated Film; 2019)
The Affair, 16th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2011)
Bananaphone, by Raffi (Children’s Album; 1994)
A Bird in a Bonnet (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)
Bongo (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Boogie Woogie Man (Song Symphony Cartoon; 1943)
Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen (Autobiography; 2016)
Caballero Droopy (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1952)
Chilly’s Hide-A-Way (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1971)
The Cleveland Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Animated Film; 2013)
Cracker (UK TV Series; 1993)
Dolly! (TV Series; 1976)
Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (Music TV Series; 1973)
Don’t Stand So Close to Me, by the Police (Song; 1980)
Elementary (TV Series; 2012)
The Fever Code, by James Dashner (Novel; 2016) [Maze Runner #5]
Fun and Fancy Free (Animated Disney Film; 1947)
The Garden of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1931)
The Goal Rush (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)
Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1939)
The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Movie)
The Invisible Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)
The Journey of Natty Gann (Film; 1985)
The Karate Guard (Tom & Jerry WB Cartoon; 2005)
King of the Mardi Gras (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)
The Last King of Scotland (Film; 2006)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Novel; 1935)
Memphis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1912) [1st Blues Song]
Mickey and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Monster, by R.E.M. (Album; 1994)
Mumbo Jumbo (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1970)
New Jersey, by Bon Jovi (Album; 1988)
Nightmare, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1938)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film; 1939)
Ran (Film; 1985)
Ringo's Rotogravure, by Ringo Starr (Album; 1976)
Rush (Film; 2013)
Sand and Foam, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1926)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series; 2007)
Silent Spring (Nature Book; 1962)
Sweet Home Alabama (Film; 2002)
Tepee for Two (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)
Thanks for the Memory, by Bob Hope (Song; 1938)
The Tonight Show (TV Talk Show; 1954)
2 Days in the Valley (Film; 1996)
Under the Table and Framing, by The Dave Matthews Band (Album; 1994)
The Village Barber (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog MGM Cartoon; 1930)
We Didn’t Start the Fore, by Billy Joel (Song; 1989)
Wet Blanket Policy (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1948)
Today’s Name Days
Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Austria)
Berislav, Gaj, Vincent, Vinko, Vinko (Croatia)
Jonáš (Czech Republic)
Cosmus (Denmark)
Elo, Loone, Õrne (Estonia)
Vesa (Finland)
Vincent (France)
Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Germany)
Akylini, Epicharis, Kallistratos, Zenon, Zinon (Greece)
Adalbert (Hungary)
Cosma, Damiano, Vincenzo (Italy)
Ādolfs, Ilgonis, Ronalds (Latvia)
Adalbertas, Damijonas, Daugilė, Kęsgailė, Kovaldas (Lithuania)
Dagmar, Dagrun (Norway)
Amadeusz, Amedeusz, Damian, Kosma, Przedbor, Urban (Poland)
Antim (Romania)
Cyprián (Slovakia)
Vicente (Spain)
Dagmar, Rigmor (Sweden)
Cosima, Cosimo, Cosmo, Damian, Damiana, Damien, Damion, Damon (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 271 of 2024; 95 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of Week 39 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 27 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 25 (Jia-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 24 Elul 5784
Islamic: 23 Rabi I 1446
J Cal: 1 Orange; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 14 September 2024
Moon: 22%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 19 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Miss Edgeworth]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 6 of 90)
Week: 4th Full Week of September
Zodiac: Libra (Day 5 of 30)
Calendar Changes
Orange (Month 10 of 12; J Calendar)
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2023 traditional Thanksgiving Dinners: (Left) Cafe Sole, Key West: Marinated turkey roasted to perfection and accompanied by smoke oyster & apple stuffing, gourmet mashed potatoes with homemade three day gravy, fresh cranberry orange compoet, green beans in bacon, naked apples, candied yams, acorn squash, a medley of roasted root vegetables and cream of corn. There was no room for dessert. (Right) My Sisters, Cincinnati: turkey, ham, mac & cheese, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans with potatoes, and GREENS! (My favorite)
Cafe Sole Key West, 2022 traditional Thanksgiving Dinner
Cafe Sole Key West, 2021 traditional Thanksgiving Dinner
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Little Fried Oyster Sandwich + Roasted Pork Shoulder Chilaquiles 🦪🍅🍳 #Brunchin
#Oyster #Fried #Kimchi #Seafood #Sandwich #Pork #Egg #Chilaquiles #SalsaRoja #Spicy #Salazar #OTR #Cincinnati #Ohio #JoseSalazar #Brunch #Food #Cincy #Foodie #CincyEats #Travel #SoloTravel #WomenWhoTravel #Instagram #SoloFemaleTravel #CincyTrip2023 #FoodPorn #Eeeeeats #DesiredTastes
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17 Curious Facts About Cincinnati’s Ravenous Appetite For Oysters
Cincinnati Ate A Lot Of Oysters
In the 1800s, Cincinnati diners consumed something 200,000 gallons of fresh oysters every season, shipped in the shell on ice from the east coast. That works out to something like 2.5 million oysters per year. The volume is remarkably consistent between reports in 1852 and 1888. In the 1880s, 30 Cincinnati businesses either packed or served oysters.
Oysters Inspired Better Transportation
As early as the 1810s, Cincinnatians consumed oysters, pickled or spiced, shipped in hermetically sealed canisters. By the 1830s, entrepreneurs had worked out a system of speedy wagons to get fresh oysters from Baltimore to Wheeling, where steamboats could haul the tasty molluscan cargo to Cincinnati. From Chesapeake Bay to the Public Landing, the entire trip took just five days, with new ice added along the way to keep the oysters in prime condition. Within a few years, railroads shortened that run to just hours.
Mrs. Trollope Was Appalled
Pretty much everything about Cincinnati disturbed Frances “Fanny” Trollope. The acerbic British lady vented her displeasure in her 1832 best-selling “Domestic Manners of the Americans,” where she whined about Cincinnatians: “In eating, they mix things together with the strangest incongruity imaginable. I have seen eggs and oysters eaten together; the sempiternal ham with apple-sauce; beefsteak with stewed peaches; and salt fish with onions.”
Oysters Delayed The Mail
Mail runs were profitable for stagecoach lines, but not as profitable as oysters, and barrels of iced blue points were shoved into every available space on wagons departing Baltimore. The Daily Gazette [5 February 1846] reported that mail deliveries to Cincinnati were arriving late because the postal coach had broken down from being overloaded with oysters.
Oysters As You Like Them
How did Cincinnatians eat their oysters? An 1859 menu preserved by the Gibson House offers a single course at an elaborate dinner consisting of Oysters Baked in Shells, Escallops of Oysters, Oysters Baked with Fine Herbs, Small Oyster Pies, Raw Oysters, Oysters Baked in a Form, Oysters Stewed with Champagne, Oysters Baked with Cheese, Fried Oysters and Pickled Oysters. A later course included Aspics of Oysters in a Form of Jelly.
Heaven To A P.O.W.
S.B. Nelson’s 1894 History of Hamilton County recounts the tale of Columbus Bennett, a school teacher in Anderson Township who enlisted early in the Civil War. He served with distinction for several years until captured by the Confederates. Eventually paroled, on reaching Union territory the famished prisoner consumed his “first square meal in eight long months, consisting of thirteen dozen raw oysters.” He survived to teach another 30 years.
Romance On The Half-Shell
The Enquirer [2 December 1874] recounts local speculation about William “Billy” Stolpp, the keeper of an oyster house at 159 West Fourth Street, and his extended trip to Baltimore. His friends and customers assumed his long absence involved acquiring a stock of fresh bivalves for his shop. In fact, Billy soon returned to Cincinnati with his new bride, the former Miss Lizzie Evans, of Baltimore, whom he had wed in that city.
Six Words And $700 Created A Legend
James A. “Jimmy” Shevlin was no dummy. He was working as a bank teller when he noticed the substantial and regular deposits from the Central Oyster House on Sixth Street. “There’s money in that game,” he said and borrowed $700 to open his own oyster house on the same block. Jimmy’s advertising slogan was, “If it swims, I have it,” and Shevlin’s Oyster & Chop House became a hangout for Democratic politicians and celebrities of the baseball, boxing and horse-racing worlds.
Oysters Paved Cincinnati Roads
The WPA “Guide to Cincinnati” reports that, in the 1880s, Boudinot and Wardall avenues in Westwood were part of what was known as Shell Road. “The story goes that one winter a landowner sent his hired man almost daily to Cincinnati hotels and restaurants – to obtain wagon loads of oyster shells. These shells were then scattered over the roadway. Horses’ hoofs ground them fine and created a shining white roadbed.”
Pushcart Deliveries
If Cincinnatians didn’t feel like taking a streetcar to their favorite restaurant or walking to the local fishmonger, they could just wait until the oyster hawker pushed his wagon past their residence. In the 1880s and 1890s, Cincinnati streets were crowded with pushcart merchants offering to mend umbrellas, sharpen knives and scissors, grind some fresh mustard, slice watermelon, shovel coal and, yes, shuck a dozen oysters from an ice-laden cart.
Queen City Condiments
No matter how Cincinnati diners ordered their oysters, whether fresh out of the shell, or steamed, or breaded and fried, they usually added some sort of flavoring. If the condiment of choice was a hot sauce, odds are it was brewed right here in the Queen City. Two brands of locally concocted chili sauce in particular, Snider’s (1900) and later Frank’s (1918) had wide distribution outside the Tri-State region.
The Pig Is Still King In Porkopolis
A 1905 “Dictionary Of Slang And Colloquial English” by John Farmer and William Henely defined “Cincinnati Oyster” as “a pig’s trotter,” in other words, a pig’s foot. The prevalence of pigs in the Queen City inspired many saloons to offer pigs feet as a regular component of their free lunch buffets.
Blame The Kaiser
World War I did nothing to abate Cincinnati’s hunger for oysters, even though wartime conditions hiked the cost of their favorite bivalve. In 1917, most Cincinnati oyster houses raised the price of oyster stew from 20 cents a bowl to 25 cents. Restaurateurs blamed the war and the customers blamed the Kaiser for starting the conflict.
Oysters For The Jury
Among the most sensational trials in Cincinnati history was the land-scam scandal of Roy Van Tress. At the conclusion of the court proceedings, resulting in Van Tress being sentenced to federal prison, the court received a bill of $848.46 from the Havlin Hotel for housing the jury, and a bill for $1383.75 from Shevlin’s Oyster House for feeding them. At that time, an oyster dinner with all the trimmings cost about 35 cents. That’s a lot of oysters!
Free Oysters For Life (Version 1)
In addition to newspaper reports, there are witnesses who attest that William Whipple Symmes, great-grand-nephew of John Cleves Symmes and prominent Cincinnati attorney, earned free oysters for life at the Central Oyster House. In one version, reported by Alfred Segal in the Cincinnati Post [22 June 1946], Jacob Rosenfield, the proprietor, realized that Symmes had been a regular customer for 30 years and presented him with a free pass for the remainder of his days.
Free Oysters For Life (Version 2)
Another Post columnist, Si Cornell, reported [16 March 1971] a different rationale for the free oysters, and cited W.W. Symmes’ law partner, William Busch, as the source. According to Busch, Symmes heard that Cincinnati was paralyzed by an “oyster scare” – rumors that oysters “weren’t much good and maybe worse.” Symmes contacted the Central Oyster House and offered to sit in the front window, eating Jacob Rosenfield’s oysters for everyone to see. Business picked up and the proprietor repaid his customer with “on-the-house” oysters ever after.
Still A Lot Of Oysters
Jacob Rosenfield’s old Central Oyster House was demolished in 1958 to make way for the new Federal Building on Government Square. The owner at the time, Rosenfield’s grandnephew Jake Spicer, proclaimed that the Central Oyster House would reopen nearby. Business was too good to close – averaging 4,000 hungry customers a day. One of Spicer’s employees calculated that she had served 32,260,000 breaded and fried oysters during her 40 years at the restaurant.
#cincinnati oysters#cincinnati food#william whipple symmes#w.w. symmes#balthazar roth#fanny trollope#jacob rosenfield#jimmy shevlin#james a. shevlin
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A Dish From Every US State
Hey all! I want to try and make a dish from every US state (probably with a vegetarian/pescatarian spin on it) so after some Googling this is what the internet gave me from each. If you live or have lived in a US state comment to confirm or suggest your own. Or send me recipes! I looked at 5 or 6 lists so if there’s only one listed for a state I guess the collective internet is out of ideas. Also reach out if you live or have lived in Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands; these are US territories so I’m also interested what feels unique to your island too.
Alabama- Chicken with Wine & BBQ, Cheese grits, Pecan Pie, Southern Lane Cake
Alaska- King crab, smoked salmon
Arizona- Chimichangas, Sonoran hotdog
Arkansas-Fried pickles, cheese dip, chocolate gravy
California- avocado toast, in-n-out, fish tacos with guacamole
Colorado- lamb chops, green chili ribs, beef enchiladas, rocky mountain oysters
Connecticut- white clam pizza
Delaware- fries with vinegar, scrapple, Amish apple scrapple
Florida- key lime pie, Cuban roasted pork sandwich
Georgia- boiled peanuts, peach cobbler/pie
Hawaii- shaved ice, Huli huli chicken, Loco Moco
Idaho- Jim spud baked potato, ice cream potato, huckleberry pie
Illinois- deep dish pizza
Indiana- breaded pork tenderloin sandwich, sugar cream pie
Iowa- sweet corn, stuffed pork chops
Kansas- BBQ ribs, Beef & cabbage pockets, Burnt ends
Kentucky- hot brown, fried chicken, bourbon balls
Louisiana- beignets, gumbo, crawfish
Maine- lobster roll
Maryland- steamed crabs, crab cakes
Massachusetts- clam chowder
Michigan- pasty, cherries, Coney dogs
Minnesota- hot dish, fried fish, tater tots
Mississippi- biscuits & gravy, Po’ boy sandwich
Missouri- toasted ravioli, Kansas City BBQ, Gooey Butter Cake
Montana- Huckleberry ice cream, Morel Mushroom Ravioli, Rocky Mountain Oysters
Nebraska- Tin Roof Sundae, Runza, Rueben Sandwich
Nevada- 3am Steak & Eggs, Bloody Mary
New Hampshire- Poutine, Apple Cider Donuts
New Jersey- Disco Fries, Pork Roll Sandwich, Salt Water Taffy
New Mexico- Frito Pie, Green chilis, sopaipillas
New York- Buffalo wings, bagels
North Carolina- Lexington BBQ, Fried Green Totatoes
North Dakota- Cheese buttons, bison burgers, hotdish, knoephla soup
Ohio- Cincinnati Chili, Buckeyes
Oklahoma- steak, chicken fried steak, onion burger
Oregon- Marionberry pie
Pennsylvania- Philly cheese steak
Rhode Island- coffee milk, clam cakes, stuffies
South Carolina- she-crab soup, Frogmore stew, Low country boil, sweet tea
South Dakota- lefse, rich fruit kuchens, fry bread
Tennessee- Nashville hot chicken sandwich
Texas- brisket, chili con carne
Utah- fry sauce, jello, buttermilk scones
Vermont- apple pie with cheddar, maple syrup
Virginia- peanut soup, oyster fricassee, apples
Washington- seafood chowder, latte, Rainer cherries, Pho
West Virginia- pepperoni rolls, biscuit sandwich
Wisconsin- fried cheese curds, coated walleye
Wyoming- fry bread, chicken fried steak, campfire trout, beef jerky
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