We based ourselves in Cincinnati for the eclipse last year (or more accurately, Mason, literally viewing distance to Kings Island). I didn’t have a lot of expectations for it, but it was better than I expected. I’d go back, even if just to go to Kings Island when it’s actually open (which I’d thought was in Columbus because my knowledge of Ohio geography is not great).

Are you from Texas? I’ve noticed Texans tend to have much stronger opinions on chili than most people. I thought it was pretty decent as a chili “sauce” on their hot dogs. I think they gave me a sample on the spaghetti also; conceptually it was weird to me to put chili on spaghetti but in practice it seemed more like a meat sauce. Not like a chili that’s like it’s meal (edit: chili con carne was the term I was looking for).

I’ve had chili chocolate ice cream and it’s good. This, however, is referring to Cincinnati chili sauce, which is basically a meat sauce for pasta.

Coworkers bought and tried it today. I think the crackers give a bit of texture and saltiness to the sweet ice cream. My coworkers said it wasn’t bad, kind of tastes like salted pumpkin spice. Which makes sense because skyline chili isn’t real chili. I have long called it pumpkin spice meat sauce (very much not a fan, myself). And apparently the ice cream is just made with the spices from the chili. I looked up the nutrition facts and in addition to the normal ice cream ingredients, it only lists crackers and “spices”, not like meat and tomato. So it’ll have clove, cinnamon, all-spice, and probably a couple other flavors in there that skyline inexplicably puts in their chili. That honestly sounds pretty good on paper for ice cream. Now that is unless the also put chili powder or cumin in there… that would probably get pretty weird pretty fast.