BellaDonna  
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1890
 | | 09-27-2005 12:21 AM |
| I am having a debate with someone. Our debate is over chili. Does "real" chili have beans? (I don't know how to start a poll) | | |
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wineismylife 
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12435
| | 09-27-2005 12:23 AM |
| | No. Real chili does not have beans. | | | Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5711
| | 09-27-2005 12:23 AM |
| | But beans are good for your heart. | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12435
| | 09-27-2005 12:24 AM |
| Quote:
But beans are good for your heart.
Then eat them separately. | |
| Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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BellaDonna
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1890
| | 09-27-2005 12:24 AM |
| Quote:
No. Real chili does not have beans.
Chili without beans is just tomato sauce, spices, and ground meat (probably a few other things) | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12435
| | 09-27-2005 12:25 AM |
| Quote:
Quote:
No. Real chili does not have beans.
Chili without beans is just tomato sauce, spices, and ground meat (probably a few other things)
Real chili does not have tomato sauce in it as well. | | | Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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BellaDonna
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1890
| | 09-27-2005 12:32 AM |
| Tomatoes...tomato sauce...whatever  | | | |
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Eric White
San Ramon, CA
Advanced Sommelier
Posts: 9432
| | 09-27-2005 12:35 AM |
| | You aren't really from Texas, are you? | | | 2008: the end of an error | |
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BellaDonna
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1890
| | 09-27-2005 12:36 AM |
| | Born and raised in Texas | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12435
| | 09-27-2005 12:49 AM |
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Born and raised in Texas
Debatable on the way you make chili. | | | Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts: 11169
| | 09-27-2005 01:32 AM |
| | or Earth | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13767
| | 09-27-2005 03:03 AM |
| Quote:
No. Real chili does not have beans.
What he said. But I like chilis with beans and without beans. So I guess I like chili and I also like faux chili (some anyway). | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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Binski
South Bay
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 457
| | 09-27-2005 05:59 AM |
| What he said,
At this point, who cares if GREAT chili has beans or not! | | | "Why Keep Score if you are not going to play by the rules?" | |
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Budman
Philly Suburbs
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 23638
| | 09-27-2005 08:58 AM |
| No beans for me!!!  | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Truck Driver
Posts: 27
| | 09-27-2005 01:08 PM |
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At this point, who cares if GREAT chili has beans or not!
Agreed. It's the complete package that counts. Here in Columbus, we suffer with Cincinatti style chili: ground meat and other bits, brown water, and CINNAMON. Oh, did you know it's frequently poured over top of spaghetti? I'm never going to understand these Midwesterners that surround me.
FWIW, I like my chili to have cubed, not ground, beef. | | | |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5711
| | 09-27-2005 01:30 PM |
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Born and raised in Texas
Warning: Off-Topic
After moving to Temple, Texas from Florida in 1994, my family came to Texas for a visit. I took them down to San Antonio for the weekend, and on the first afternoon we wandered over to Dick's Last Resort on the Riverwalk and sat at a table. The waiter came over and asked what we wanted to drink, and I ordered a Lone Star beer. He looked at me and said: "Where are you from?" I replied: "Temple, about two hours north of here." He shook his head and said: "No self-respectin' Texan drinks Lone Star; they drink Shiner Bock."
So I said: "I'll have a Shiner Bock." And I haven't ordered a Lone Star since. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts: 11169
| | 09-27-2005 03:23 PM |
| I didn't realize you were so easily intimidated! | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts: 15756
| | 09-27-2005 03:31 PM |
| NO BEANS in chili!
But who says one can't put tomatoe sauce in the mix?
Chili is whatever one wants it to be. First the meat can be any beef or fowl (even vegitarian) one wants; buffalo, duck, pork, hamburger, venison...
The" liquid" can also be anything one wants also; tomatillo for a wonderful verde sauce, tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, chilis... in theory even beans.
The reason so many people believe there "should" be beans in chili is because the mass food market makes it that way. I'm sure that most people would be upset if they got a bowl of chili and it didn't have beans in it. It isn't wrong but it sure doesn't need beans to be chili. | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts: 15756
| | 09-27-2005 03:40 PM |
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"No self-respectin' Texan drinks Lone Star; they drink Shiner Bock."
My last trip to Fort Worth a few months back I was told the exact same thing.
I'd never heard of Shiner Bock.
Shiner Beers | | | |
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