Testing Your Knowledge on Your Hometown
In our second in a series of testing your knowledge about Cincinnati, here's today's question:
The nickname for Cincinnati, Porkopolis, was coined around 1835. Why was the city called this?
Was it because. . .
Everybody in the city was eating at Skyline Chili all the time and getting extremely fat?
Is the answer . . .
CityBeat started publication in 1835 and thought it would be a good name for a column?
Or is it because . . .
Cincinnati was the country’s chief hog packing center?
The first person to answer this question correctly, get two never used plastic cups from my stay at a
Travelodge in St. Louis! The protective wrapping is still around the
cups!
Good luck and let the fun begin!
- Tom Anus
(Photo from www.carriageoccasion.com. Why are
these guys talking to the horse? No prize offered for the answer)
It's the third choice! I win the Travel lodge cups!!
Posted by: Becky | March 31, 2008 at 08:04 AM
I feel sorry for all those pigs.
Posted by: C.A. | March 31, 2008 at 10:18 AM
damn, too late. i could have used those cups, i've been drinking from my cat's water bowl.
Posted by: hard as nails | March 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM