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Did Wisconsin Do Cincinnati Chili First?

Did Wisconsin Do Cincinnati Chili First?

The Strange Tale of Chili John's.

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Mar 14, 2022
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The man himself: John Issac of Chili John’s in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Some years ago, I went to a saloon called the Bayside Tavern in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Fish Creek is a small resort town in Door County, a peninsula that juts out into Lake Michigan and acts as a sort of mini-Cape Cod of the Midwest. The Bayside had held down a patch of Fish Creek’s mai…

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