i might make a pilgrimage.

cheers!
Doc

Well, I have no actual proof on this, but at the time I always heard
that a hot dog place by Michigan State University started the
phenomenon. I think they were referring to Top Dog, which isn't around
anymore. But during my college years, it was great to go there at 2
a.m. after a party...

Kris


Doc Martian wrote:
> i might make a pilgrimage.
>
> cheers!
> Doc

thanks. i've got a couple feelers out, i'll let yah know if i get something
definitive. my hunch was skyline chili in ohio. they pretty much have a lock
on chili cheese inventions.

cheers!
Doc

"Kris" > wrote in message
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> Well, I have no actual proof on this, but at the time I always heard
> that a hot dog place by Michigan State University started the
> phenomenon. I think they were referring to Top Dog, which isn't around
> anymore. But during my college years, it was great to go there at 2
> a.m. after a party...
>
> Kris
>
>
> Doc Martian wrote:
>> i might make a pilgrimage.
>>
>> cheers!
>> Doc
>

From:
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: chili cheese fries


Doc,

The earliest print reference we find for "chili cheese fries" is from 1988.
Although the restaurant was based in Chicago, the founders were from
Cincinnati and very much taken with their city's chili tradition.

"The Near North eatery is named Coney Dog, but has nothing to do with New
York. It serves Cincinnati-style chili, but it doesn't call it that on the
menu. Confused? No, problem. The selections are very simple. They've got
chili and they've got chili dogs.Craig McCoy and Randy Reynolds, a pair of
out-of-towners who graduated from Northwestern University in 1984, returned
to open a tiny, fast-food place in a storefront in April. With a fondness
for Cincinnati-style chili, but the smarts not to call it that for fear of
offending Chicagoans, the dish is billed as "chili spaghetti," served 2-way
($2.35), 3-way ($2.60), 4-way ($2.85) or 5-way ($2.95)...McCoy and Reynolds
make their own french fries from Idaho potatoes. They are plump and not
greasy. But don't stop. Coney Dog has cheese fries ($1.50) to beat all
others. The fries are covered with melted Cheddar cheese-the real kind-sour
cream, onions and jalapeno peppers. The cheapeaters' favorite, however, was
the order of chili cheese fries ($1.80), everything that can come with the
cheese fries plus a smothering of chili."
---CONEY DOG 'CHILI SPAGHETTI' STILL TASTY BY ANY OTHER NAME; [NORTH SPORTS
FINAL, CN Edition] Manuel Galvan. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext).
Chicago, Ill.: Nov 25, 1988. pg. 36

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark database (http://www.uspto.gov)
"Chili cheese fries" are not a registered trademark. We sent a note to
Skyline asking when they introduced this item to their menu. Hopefully, they
will respond.

North American fast-food dishes combining cheese, fries & other toppings
dates back at least to 1957. About French Canadian Poutine (c. 1957):
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1371...adian_food/cli

We will be in touch when we hear back from Skyline.
-----------------------------------
Lynne Olver (IACP), editor
The Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org

"Doc Martian" > wrote in message
news:xwvsh.488$JB.171@trnddc05...
> thanks. i've got a couple feelers out, i'll let yah know if i get
> something definitive. my hunch was skyline chili in ohio. they pretty much
> have a lock on chili cheese inventions.
>
> cheers!
> Doc
>
> "Kris" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>> Well, I have no actual proof on this, but at the time I always heard
>> that a hot dog place by Michigan State University started the
>> phenomenon. I think they were referring to Top Dog, which isn't around
>> anymore. But during my college years, it was great to go there at 2
>> a.m. after a party...
>>
>> Kris
>>
>>
>> Doc Martian wrote:
>>> i might make a pilgrimage.
>>>
>>> cheers!
>>> Doc
>>
>
>

I was having them in 1983. I would order Chilli and French Fries. Then pour the chilli over the fries. The one waitress asked if she could try them. She liked it and soon they were added the menu. It is sad that they are no longer there. This was in Pittsburgh, PA not far from the CCAC campus.

I am not saying I created them, I know that they exsisted before 1988.

Cheers!

In article <Gkpsh.417$U81.70@trnddc06>, says...
> i might make a pilgrimage.
>
> cheers!
> Doc
>
>
>

Yeah, it originated in hell. A lot of us may make a pilgrimage.

--
Peter Aitken

I'm posting here because i know where they originated, because I'm the first one to order them it would be easy to prove it.
It was in 1977 or 78 I was 17 and 18, I moved furniture and most of our work was @ Barksdale AFB in Bossier City La., every day we would eat lunch @ the bowling alley cafe, I was a teenager never had much money I ate fries most of the time, one day I asked the lady behind the counter to put some chili on them she said (chili), after that all of us started to order it next thing I know its on the menu, the lady that gave me that order still lives here and after 30 years she seen me and knew who i was right away.
How to prove it ask the base bowling alley cafe for the earliest reciet they have on selling them, after that the world will know

Lee Beck
President of
Youknewmusic.com
and chilli fry man