While I live on Liberal Mountain, I can testify that Iowa seems to have no culinary tradition. It's south of Midwestern German/Scandanvian/Polish food, and north/east of the Southern/Tex-mex food.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

As someone who lived in Kansas ditto

They had a weird thing about Cinnamon Rolls and Chili. Together.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yup, every two weeks for school lunch. Also the chili is basically just thick tomato soup with bits of stuff in it.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The whole Cincinatti tradition of putting chili on top of spaghetti seems weird until you realize that by "chili" they mean ragu, ground beef and maybe a little salt.

They're just so completely useless at cooking they think a basic meat sauce is "chili".

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

It has salt, to the Midwestern pallet that means its spicy. 😞

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Dear God

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Cinnamon is honestly pretty good in chili if you want to take it that direction.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Moroccan cooking involves a shitload of cinnamon in everything savory, and it is delicious.

[–] panned_cakes@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

as everything should

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 months ago

Cinnamon is definitely underrated as an ingredient in savory dishes. Mexico got that shit figured out.

But also I disagree with cinnamon rolls and chili as a pairing on principle so please don't try and use logic here.

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

I will admit, I tried cinnamon rolls and chili. As long as the chili itself isn't sweet it's really good. Cornbread and chili is already an amazing combo so it's only a half step away from that