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Certificate number 245. Cincinnati Chili.

No other chilly has a taste that's so devine.

Together at the last it

skyline time.

Have you had Cincinnati Chili?

I have had chili and I've had spaghetti. I've never had them together. Really? I've sat at the table. Do you know that little chilly place that's somehow still there by the Ballard Bridge? That little... Yeah, for sure I do. I go there all the Ballard Bridge that little yeah for sure I do I go there all the time I bet you've

been there a lot I do any Seattle place that looks like I did in 1912 that's where you

eat it's wonderful I have eaten something else there while somebody else that place has Cincinnati chili I think and I have eaten there while my friend had Cincinnati chili and I think that was the first time I knew of Cincinnati chili and I was kind of appalled.

So what you're just, the place you're describing

is a place called Mike's Chili Parlor.

And it is, it's right by the Ballard Bridge

and it is like a. Very interesting to those of you who live in

Bulgaria or Tierra del Fuego it is it does have the ye oldie appearance and they do a form of Cincinnati Chile although I wouldn't I

wouldn't describe it as like the perfection of the form it's it's its it's

its own thing do they claim that it's Cincinnati? That's what it says on the menu, I think, right? On their little chalkboard?

I mean, they need to say that because there's a lot of confusion when you start talking about

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