President Obama stopped by the iconic Ohio fast food restaurant Skyline Chili this afternoon.

Obama, who is in Cincinnati for a campaign speech later today, ordered a four-way with beans and two cheese Coneys (hotdogs). The president took his food to go.

Former first lady Barbara Bush visited Skyline in 1992 for a chili dog after visiting a literacy program in Cincinnati and meeting with volunteers working at phone bank on behalf of husband's unsuccessful re-election effort.

Following Bush's lead, Obama ordered his chili without the onions. Bush was heading to Kansas after her Skyline visit and said that she didn't want to offend supporters at her next stop with onion breath.

"I can't do that to them in Kansas," Bush joked, according to a contemporaneous report from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

Skyline, which was opened by a Greek immigrant named Nicholas Lambrinides, has been an institution in Cincinnati since 1949. There are now locations in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Florida.

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The chili is still made from Lambrinides' original recipe which is a secret blend of spices and other fine ingredients, reports pool reporter Tangi Quéméner of Agence France-Presse.

But Cincinnati-native and USA TODAY scribe Gregory Korte advises the Oval that Lambrinides recipe is suspected to include a bit of chocolate.