You know what some savages put in their chili?

puffy999: You know what some savages put in their chili?

Neocon tears?

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I live in New Mexico, and had chili earlier this week, so I am getting a kick out of this thread.

I used to put beans and rice into the chili, but now serve them on the side. No rattlesnake.


/Only been in New Mexico three years, so don't view me as typical.

WTF is wrong with the picture used in TFA? This is only my opinion, but I'm sure chili is not supposed to be blue.

Buckster: WTF is wrong with the picture used in TFA? This is only my opinion, but I'm sure chili is not supposed to be blue.

I *think* those are flames.

oldebayer: No rattlesnake.

a rib bone in every bite!

Keep your damned legumes out of my chili, you heathen bastards.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Keep your damned legumes out of my chili, you heathen bastards.

You, sir, are a man of wealth and taste.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Keep your damned legumes out of my chili, you heathen bastards.

The author should have done some more research....
The beans where there traditionally. When the cowboys would set off from Kansas City to Texas to drive the cattle all the way back, they started out with smoked beef and beans for the trip. As the beef ran out or went bad they ate the beans. One the way back the beans and spices had some properties to keep the non-preserved beef better for a few days. Then the rail roads came and there wasn't a need to drive cattle that far.

Thank you subby. I knew I needed to cook up a batch. Will start the simmer tonight.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Keep your damned legumes out of my chili, you heathen bastards.

It is Chili con Carne, not Chili con frijoles y carne

Putting beans in you chili is a hanging offense here in Texas.

When I can't be bothered to make my own.

Putting beans in chili makes Baby Jebus fart.

My mom's chili doesn't have beans in it. As is correct. No rattlesnake, either.

Rattlesnake is more properly cooked in foil, with beer, onions and butter, in a campfire.

You Texans. If your chili doesn't have beans in it, it ain't chili - it's spicy spaghetti sauce.

Well it sure is popular with Brubaker's wardens.

It's a dish that is best when made in huge batches, and takes a whole day to prepare and eat.

True dat.

Mmmmmm....4 way....

The headline of the article spells it "chili" with one "l", the entire article has it spelled "chilli" with two "l"s.

DON.MAC: The author should have done some more research....
The beans where there traditionally. When the cowboys would set off from Kansas City to Texas to drive the cattle all the way back, they started out with smoked beef and beans for the trip. As the beef ran out or went bad they ate the beans. One the way back the beans and spices had some properties to keep the non-preserved beef better for a few days. Then the rail roads came and there wasn't a need to drive cattle that far.

So great, next time we find ourselves on a cattle drive, out of beef, you can put beans in the chili. Otherwise, keep them the fark out.

It's one thing if you're poor, living on government cheese, and need to stretch your dollar. Ok, go for cheap protein in beans.

I have a job though, I can afford meat. Don't ruin a good chili with friggin beans.

I refuse to take ANY advice on food from a culture that traditionally takes a beautiful piece of beef and boils it to transparency.

Beanless chili is useful - as a condiment. For a MEAL, you put in the beans. And if you're insane, you put the bean chili over a bowl of cheese grits. It isn't half bad, but what foul spirit drove my coworkers to come up with "IT" I cannot begin to speculate upon.

"IT" - Cheese grits, topped with cheese and scallions, topped with chili, topped with sour cream. And for the truly beyond reason, ranch dressing. Eat, wait to die.

It's chili, not bean stew. You want bean stew, then put the damned beans in it and ruin a perfectly good pot of now former chili. You want chili, you leave the damned beans out and let people add them however they want.

To recap

Beans does not equal chili. It equals abomination.

No beans equals chili.

And let us not discuss that lovecraftian horror that is Cincinnati chili. That way lies insanity and mindless gibbering

I used to pretty much hate beans until I tried it. I was rather drunk and insanely hungry at a pub when a buddy bought a big bowl to share.

I was too hungry to care and it was suddenly "these beans ain't too bad... nice texture... I hear they contain fibre... otherwise innocuous... hmmm, I'll give these a burl in future... om nom nom nom."

I like how carne is Latin for meat.

Er, or something like that. What does Slick Willy think?

SavageWombat: You Texans. If your chili doesn't have beans in it, it ain't chili - it's spicy spaghetti sauce.

A chili is just a pepper. Chili con carne is pepper with meat. As CDP noted it's not called chili con carne y frijoles.

DON.MAC: The beans where there traditionally. When the cowboys would set off from Kansas City to Texas to drive the cattle all the way back, they started out with smoked beef and beans for the trip.

What about the cowboys who drove the cattle from west TX to Fort Worth? They kept the beans separate, KC chili is just a knock off.

TheOther: Putting beans in chili makes Baby Jebus fart.

I laughed at that. Well done!

what you really need to have is some rocky mountain oyster chilli.

Feltonl: what you really need to have is some rocky mountain oyster chilli.

You have to have some real balls to make that sort of chili.

If no beans are to be used in chili then what are the use of chili beans?

Chili without beans is like pizza without cheese.

FTFA: The only certainty is that chilli con carne is not Mexican. Sure, there are lots of similar beef and chilli stews, birria for example - but this is a North American dish.

Someone get this man and his editor a map, goddamn it.

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DON.MAC: Eddie_Dean_NY: Keep your damned legumes out of my chili, you heathen bastards.

The author should have done some more research....
The beans where there traditionally. When the cowboys would set off from Kansas City to Texas to drive the cattle all the way back, they started out with smoked beef and beans for the trip. As the beef ran out or went bad they ate the beans. One the way back the beans and spices had some properties to keep the non-preserved beef better for a few days. Then the rail roads came and there wasn't a need to drive cattle that far.

You are correct sir!

I live in central Texas just off the trail. I had a big pot of red for the rural neighbors Xmas party. These are cow people. Everyone (well the men) raved about the chili. There were three different kinds of beans. Still thick and meaty though.

chili no beans, and thick enough to eat with a fork. It's not soup.

Texas Chili - you can't tell if someone has already eaten it.

SideburnSlim: Mmmmmm....4 way....



THIS!!!!

/hungry

hardinparamedic: Now you will suffer. I put deadly phytotoxin in your chili! Prepare for the anal gushing of blood and chili!

I must know, are you a Joe fan? Hisstank perhaps?

Chili, properly prepared in my family (and woe be it to the idiot who thinks to try to correct my grandmother in the kitchen), takes at least two days to prepare. None of this canned bean shiat, the beans must be dry, and then allowed to soak for a full day at a simmer. And then the meat browned, and added, fat and all, and then the spices once it has all come together.

Of course, grandma also made batches large enough to feed twenty plus people in one sitting, during the summer, on a farm. Usually fifteen or so of those were hungry little children who literally could eat for an army.

Now that's a proper, delicious, mouth watering chili.

Mmm... I should make some soon, actually, come to think of it.

/pain in the butt to make, but so worth it
//best part, one pot is good college eating for at least a week

Kin Corn Karn?

PatGund: lovecraftian horror

Hilarious! I'm going to steal that. Ccthulllui, and awl dat.

I'm staying out of the beans politics, you pathetic morans. I was just a hungry drunk Aussie.

"I know what I hate, and I don't hate this."

Leskay: I'm staying out of the beans politics

I don't really see why it's such a big deal one way or the other anyways. If I'm going to be putting the chili on another meat item - chili dogs, anyone? - I prefer beanless. They just get in the way then. Beans go in the stuff you eat from a bowl.

MMM, Beans. Pffffft.

A kid I know put my parents, whom he had killed by a local rancher, in a chili con carne dish.

Then, he made me eat them.fark you, Cartman.

rka:
I have a job though, I can afford meat. Don't ruin a good chili with friggin beans.

This. I make an awesome chili, and I make awesome barbecue beans. Only one of these recipes contains beans.

Chili con carne describes itself: chili peppers and meat. It isn't supposed to have beans in it. Beans are starch. Putting chili on a starch, like beans or spaghetti or grits or cornbread or a cheeseburger-- well, the bun, anyway-- is a serving suggestion for chili, but it's not the stuff itself.

I like creamy sausage gravy on biscuits, and rarely eat it on its own, but would I start insisting it isn't gravy if there were no biscuits in it? No, and neither should anyone sane. (Likewise I'd not make creamy sausage gravy without sausage or something to make it creamy and still call it creamy sausage gravy. I'm looking at YOU, Midwestern people who think tomato soup with beans and a bit of paprika is "chili".)

SavageWombat: You Texans. If your chili doesn't have beans in it, it ain't chili - it's spicy spaghetti sauce.


someone in kansas commenting on Chili, hahahaha!!!

My mom makes kick-ass chili. She uses chunks of beef and pork not ground beef, NO BEANS and it's hot enough to melt steel. I eat that with a layer of pepper jack cheese on top and biscuits.


Holy shiat, I'm hungry now.

Grotesk: Chili con carne describes itself: chili peppers and meat. It isn't supposed to have beans in it. Beans are starch. Putting chili on a starch, like beans or spaghetti or grits or cornbread or a cheeseburger-- well, the bun, anyway-- is a serving suggestion for chili, but it's not the stuff itself.

I like creamy sausage gravy on biscuits, and rarely eat it on its own, but would I start insisting it isn't gravy if there were no biscuits in it? No, and neither should anyone sane. (Likewise I'd not make creamy sausage gravy without sausage or something to make it creamy and still call it creamy sausage gravy. I'm looking at YOU, Midwestern people who think tomato soup with beans and a bit of paprika is "chili".)



Hey, we're Midwesterners and my mom knows how to make chili that doesn't sound like what you said.


She also makes a great sausage gravy. God, when I was in college, if it wasn't for the gym at the dorms I would have put on a Freshman 45 instead of 15.

Chili without beans is a Sloppy Joe.

Coco LaFemme: Grotesk: Chili con carne describes itself: chili peppers and meat. It isn't supposed to have beans in it. Beans are starch. Putting chili on a starch, like beans or spaghetti or grits or cornbread or a cheeseburger-- well, the bun, anyway-- is a serving suggestion for chili, but it's not the stuff itself.

I like creamy sausage gravy on biscuits, and rarely eat it on its own, but would I start insisting it isn't gravy if there were no biscuits in it? No, and neither should anyone sane. (Likewise I'd not make creamy sausage gravy without sausage or something to make it creamy and still call it creamy sausage gravy. I'm looking at YOU, Midwestern people who think tomato soup with beans and a bit of paprika is "chili".)



Hey, we're Midwesterners and my mom knows how to make chili that doesn't sound like what you said.


She also makes a great sausage gravy. God, when I was in college, if it wasn't for the gym at the dorms I would have put on a Freshman 45 instead of 15.

while Im sure what she makes tastes good, it's not chili the way its meant to be made.

it's like me saying, hey.. I like Totinos pizza, its a really great pizza!!

while I may like it, I know that it's not really anything like what a real pizza is supposed to taste like.