Earlier this year, we introduced you to a fella named Patrick Kaple. Kaple has a love affair with Cincinnati-style chili, especially when it’s poured atop a steamy hot dog, sandwiched between a cozy bun and covered in a mound of cheese. The man likes cheese coneys. A lot. So much so, that he challenged himself to eat 1,000 of them throughout the year, a feat so daring and unthinkable that we had to find out a little more about the man behind the coney.
You can read our interview with Kaple here.
Inspired by the tale of Ben Cohn, who ate 400 coneys in less than a year on a dare, Kaple decided to go bigger. He started a Twitter profile with the handle @1kconey, where followers could keep up with his journey and receive daily updates on his coney count.
Now that 2019 is drawing to an end, Kaple threw a party to celebrate his success and consume his 1,000th cheese coneys surrounded by his friends and supporters at Norwood’s Dana Gardens.
Skyline Chili retweeted a video of Kaple eating his coney, recognizing his devotion to the delicacy.
“1k Cheese Coneys in 365 days. Safe to say Patrick is our #1 fan,” the post read.
And that is how a legend was born.
1k Cheese Coneys in 365 days. Safe to say Patrick is our #1 fan 🥇 @1kConey https://t.co/GD4v1X9oO5
— Skyline Chili (@Skyline_Chili) December 15, 2019
This article appears in Dec 11-24, 2019.