Should chili include beans? Let's settle this once and for all!

[Kirkrapine]

I've actually had an idea for a restaurant chain, "The Chilihead." The basic format would be like Boston Market, and it would serve a dozen varieties of chili (including purist Texas Red, and Oklahoma Red with tomatoes, and Cincinnati-style chili over spaghetti or hot dogs, and vegetarian "chili" so denominated, and chili with beans, and pork and mutton chili, and javelina and venison chili budget allowing, and a bar of toppings -- cheese, chopped onions, jalapenos, crackers, cornbread, beans), and all made -- not fresh, but the day before serving (for some reason, chili always tastes better the next day). With those posters you've all seen of the varieties of fresh and dried chile peppers on the walls, and cookbooks-with-chili-history for sale. It would make a profit, and not only in Texas.

 

[Jada59]

Chili is like stew. There is no one way to make it. Make it how you like it. Then eat it. It will SYTFU, at least while your mouth is full.

 

[Kirkrapine]

I'm making black bean and sweet potato "chili" even as we speak. No meat at all.

Sweet potatoes?! Sweet potatoes?! Heretic! How dare you so defile the peppers!

 

[Lorilei]

Sweet potatoes?! Sweet potatoes?! Heretic! How dare you so defile the peppers!

I'm a rebel like that.

 

[thør]

My mother-in-law would make chili with no meat in it, only beans. It wasn't that good, IMO. I boycotted her funeral because of that.

 

[pink]

Hells yes.

Northern beans, kidney or pinto beans, hamburger, chopped tomatoes and a bit of chili mix.

My dad used to love a potato thrown in there.

 

[jomar]

If you know beans about chili, you know chili ain't got no beans.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Hells yes.

Northern beans, kidney or pinto beans, hamburger, chopped tomatoes and a bit of chili mix.

My dad used to love a potato thrown in there.

Potatoes again . . . they just don't belong . . .

 

[DMBFFF]

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[jaF0]

My dad used to love a potato thrown in there.

Didn't it splash and make a mess?

 

[dolf]

This divide has to have socioeconomic roots, surely? Beans are cheap and filling, and they're a good way to make expensive beef go a lot further. Would it be that the poor added lots of beans and the wealthy didn't need to?

Maybe not, but it would make sense.

 

[IG_88]

This divide has to have socioeconomic roots, surely? Beans are cheap and filling, and they're a good way to make expensive beef go a lot further. Would it be that the poor added lots of beans and the wealthy didn't need to?

Maybe not, but it would make sense.

That makes sense but it doesn't seem to fit with the history of chili or at least not broadly. Very possible it comes down to somewhere in the middle history of it that your theory took hold.
It is a near-religion where I live so the debate is very serious but I've never heard that reasoning. However I think it makes a lot of sense.
And for the record, Cincinnati chili is not chili. It's spaghetti with a different sauce. Deal with it.

 

[JohnnySavage]

It's a regional debate as old and contentious as what to put on your pulled pork. I like a thin Carolina sauce, but that would get me shot in Texas.

For the record - Kidney and black beans in my chili and venison cubes for the meat and don't spare the heat. If your eyes aren't watering, you're not eating!

 

[uncle easy]

Beans are the musical fruit!!! The more you eat,, the more you toot. The more you toot the better you feel. You should have beans with every meal!!! Chili without beans? In indiana you would be laughed at forever. Got to have lots of red kidney beans. Yum,yum!

 

[Wrong Element]

This divide has to have socioeconomic roots, surely? Beans are cheap and filling, and they're a good way to make expensive beef go a lot further. Would it be that the poor added lots of beans and the wealthy didn't need to?

Maybe not, but it would make sense.

I think it's less about socioeconomics and more about Texans, the people who feel strongest about "proper" chili not containing beans, believing the world revolves around their opinions.

I put beans in my chili, but I don't think they're a major element.


Also, I have engaged in the Cincinnati chili discussion here before, and my continuing belief is that it's a close call on whether it's fit for prisoners at Guantanamo.

 

[HisArpy]

Didn't it splash and make a mess?

Don't worry, the dogs cleaned that up real fast.