YOU like Bootsy Collins? I like Bootsy Collins!
It’s Monday morning, and I’ve already eaten a 7 x 7 pan of Skyline Chili 3-way. It’s a Cincinnati specialty, even a delicacy. But in no way is it breakfast. To the non-initiated, it is so named not for it’s hot girl-on-guy-on-girl action, but for it’s three ingredients: chili, spaghetti, cheese. Three-way. Oh yeah, and I’m still hungry.
Another Cincinnati treasure that some of you may not know is legendary funker Bootsy Collins. While referring to Bootsy as “the Joe Jurevicius of funk” may be accurate and condescending at the same time, Collins is renowned for his eccentric dress as well as being a black man one can safely refer to as “Bootsy.”
Here is Bootsy working it with some of the Bengals in Paul Brown Stadium in a rendition of “Fear Da Tiger.” Or something (Skyline 3-way not pictured).
Okay, so this is not a great clip. But, hey, we’re allowed to get it wrong once in a while…aren’t we?
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July 31st, 2006 at 9:42 am
Nice breakfast, lardass. Top that off with some Graeters ice cream and you’re good.
July 31st, 2006 at 9:52 am
Which one was Mary Beth King?
July 31st, 2006 at 9:52 am
By the way, Skyline is HUGE in Florida too. Sure wish it’d make it’s way to fuckin Illinois.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:15 am
Is there a vegetarian version?
July 31st, 2006 at 11:31 am
They actualy play this on the Jumbotron at games
July 31st, 2006 at 11:41 am
I doubt they use real meat in the chili, so I assume it’s all vegitatian. Unless you have issues with eating puppies.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Stay Classy, Price Hill Chili.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:16 pm
I think the pan was closer to 9 x 9, now that I think about it.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:59 pm
there is a vegitarian burrito at skyline that is filled with a black bean concoction that tastes surprisingly like the chili. My wife gets it all of the time, and it’s probably the menu’s best kept secret.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Chili and cheese on spaghetti? Sounds strangely tasty. For breakfast though, not so much.
P.S. I absolutely love Bootzilla and demand to know why he is not more famous.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Nyssa23,
I love the bootster too, but the reason he’s not more famous is because ther’s cats out there like Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, and the alltime #1 bassist of all times Jaco Pastorious, RIP baby, you are the muthafuckin man.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:38 pm
A breakfast menu? Did PK post this under MMP as payback?
July 31st, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Rich, I was looking for a tie-in to a couple of Cincinnati institutions. What better way to do that than with another Cincinnati institution.
Also, the innuendo of “three-way” was too much to pass up. And I would hardly call that item a “breakfast menu.”
July 31st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Three-way. Not just for breakfast anymore. Or something.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:17 pm
The only breakfast you need in Cincinnati is actually located across the river in Newport, KY at the only Hoffbrauhaus outside of Munich Germany. Two big steins there and you’re ready for whatever the workday throws at you.
Also your “Cincinnati style” chili frightens and confuses me. Where are the insanity peppers? Don’t make me start ex-communicating.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Chili Town, I hate to correct someone with a longer standing “internet” reputation than me, but there are more Hofbrauhaus’sss in the world than just Newport. As a former resident of the ‘nati, I was under the assumption that this was true as well. Then I moved to Vegas and dammit if they didn’t ruin it for my Ohio River Pride. There’s one here near the Hard Rock Hotel. I think there’s also one in Sydney, Aust. But yeah, sorry to ruin that for you…
July 31st, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Yeah…that’s ok. At least you didn’t tell us about your pumpkin-spice, non-fat, venti latte or how there was no leg-room on your train-ride to work
July 31st, 2006 at 5:41 pm
I was lied to? Goddamn. Who would have thought the Germans couldn’t be trusted?
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:05 am
Three Way in Cincy….I’ve done that.
With chili as well.
Skyline rocks.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Joe Jurevicius of funk? NFW. Bootsy is the Clinton Portis of funk.
Bootsy is funkier than Stanley, Marcus and Victor for sure. Funk ain’t about how many notes you play, it’s where you play ‘em.
p.s. Doesn’t Skyline chili have chocolate in it?
August 4th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Hell yeah. I’m a professional bass player and Bootsy is the God of funk bass… one of my heros.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
not a great clip? not a great clip?
no, you guys got that one exactly right. that was awesome.