Should chili be made with beans? Let's settle this once and for all!

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[phrodeau]

If you want a thread to go on forever, put "let's settle this once and for all" in the title.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Sometimes I daydream about opening a restaurant called "The Chilihead." It would be a Boston Market style restaurant serving about a dozen different regional varieties of chili (some with beans, some without), made daily and served the next day (for some reason, chili always tastes better the day after it's made). One or two vegetarian dishes would be served, but they would be labeled "Vegetarian 'Chili.'" Various recipes would be graded "Mild," "Medium," "Hot," and "Are You Sure You've Thought This Through?" A sort of salad bar would offer every topping conceivable -- corn chips, saltines, oyster crackers, shredded cheddar cheese, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, sour cream, chopped onions, hot sauces, avocado slices, etc. And of course, it would serve chili dogs, and Cincinnati chili over spaghetti with all the optional toppings.

 

[sircumvent]

Good Gosh almighty...............no beans


Let Tommy Alverson tell you :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbZKsxCGP8g

 

[pointless]

i prefer saltines with my chili. it's my midwestern, whitebread heritage. it can't be helped.

 

[EternalFantasies]

It's a long-running flamewar. In Texas, I have read, the side you take can have actual political consequences. Some purists insist that while a chili-like substance can be made with beans, chili contains none by definition. But I have read that the practice of including beans in the recipe is almost as old as chili itself.

Yes, it absolutely should.


If you care about your health.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yes, it absolutely should.


If you care about your health.

If I cared about my health I wouldn't eat chili.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Yes, it absolutely should.


If you care about your health.

Chili is health food?!

 

[pointless]

you could just eat vegetarian chili. if the person making it knows what they're doing it can be quite good. i'd honestly say it's pretty much the same as non-vegetarian chili. vegan chili can go fuck itself, though.

 

[EternalFantasies]

Chili is health food?!

Na a a.. pay attention now.

What was the question? (imagine the evil new Hogwart principal in pink asking it)

 

[KingOrfeo]

you could just eat vegetarian chili.

No such thing by definition. It is at most a chili-like substance.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Florida chili is made with black beans. It's a Cuban thing.

We lived 23 years in Florida. It's always been red beans.
And like my daddy did in Illinois that's real chili.................... Just not too many beans. I hate beans but love chili with beans.

Mostly it's a winter thing but now and then chili in midsummer is a good change. Or on my chili dog.

Texans eat dead cows cooked way too long

There ain't no such thing as vegetarian chili.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Texans eat dead cows cooked way too long

It's traditional. Chili started out as trail-food for cowboys, using cheap tough cuts of meat cooked for a long time to tenderize them. Why make chili with filet mignon?

 

[pointless]

No such thing by definition. It is at most a chili-like substance.

nope. it's real and it's fucking good. you need to work on your definition 'cause it sucks.

 

[KingOrfeo]

nope. it's real and it's fucking good. you need to work on your definition 'cause it sucks.

Vegetarian chili is as oxymoronic as vegetarian steak.

 

[pointless]

not really. you just change the con to a sin and it works out great.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

not really. you just change the con to a sin and it works out great.

Next you will want to leave the milk out of the oyster stew.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

You're probably right since I am in that region. I like spaghetti as a chili ingredient myself, but there is a chain restaurant here called "Skyline Chili" which makes the most foul product I've ever eaten. Once and one time only. The most ardent Texas chili fan would praise Wendy's offering as "gourmet" compared to Skyline.

Rancid.

You don't like Skyline??

 

[RobDownSouth]

If you want a thread to go on forever, put "let's settle this once and for all" in the title.

Some rather opinionated people in this thread, yessirree.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Some rather opinionated people in this thread, yessirree.

We can agree to disagree about politics, religion, and the most basic values of human existence, but this is chili!

 

[EternalFantasies]

If I cared about my health I wouldn't eat chili.

That wasn't your question now was it.


here, maybe you and Rom would now better understand what you are talking about:

Shitty scenario number 1 - no beans : 8==============D that big in ur ass.

Shitty scenario number 2 - w/ beans: 8=====D that much in ur ass.


Hope it clarifies your question, to both of you.

 

[RobDownSouth]

We can agree to disagree about politics, religion, and the most basic values of human existence, but this is chili!

#WhatMattersMost

 

[barefootgirl69]

Can we add onion and green peppers to the chili?

And what kind of chiles?

I don't want to keep getting this wrong...sniff, sniff

 

[jezzilee]

I have my own chili recipe and I am not going to divulge it... ancient Chinese secret and all of that!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Can we add onion and green peppers to the chili?

And what kind of chiles?

I don't want to keep getting this wrong...sniff, sniff

onion, yes, green peppers? I'm gonna say no, but I'll defer final judgment to the judging panel.