Chili Doesn't Have Beans

[1911'S 4 Me]

I realize that this is hard for you over-amped macho types, but, chili without beans is spiced up beef and broth (hotdog sauce). Good on mashed taters. My award-winning turkey chili has 3 different beans: kidney beans, chili beans and pinto beans. It’s so good that it will make you shit and squeal like a seagull with a french frie. It’s even good cold. No beans takes the fun and flavor out of chili. It’s not funny when the grandkids get stuck with a silent finger pull.

My award-winning turkey chili

What awards and where has it won?

 

[Texasgordo]

I never understood the chili and beans argument. I grew up in a Mexican household so pinto beans were always plentiful. If mom made chilli with beans nobody's going to bitch about beans in the chilli. Plus it was great tasting with beans so I don't get the fuss.

 

[Tnhawk]

…and then you have this.

Cincinnati chili - Wikipedia

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Interesting to have chili with chocolate as an ingredient. People seem to like it, so perhaps one day I may try it

operative word - Cincinnati

 

[Tnhawk]

...No beans takes the fun and flavor out of chili.

No beans takes the gas out of it!

 

[msharley]

Yankees.

Now, now..

Yinz gonna be a calliN' us naMes...

Do it riGhT!

Its............DAMMYANKEEZ!

I been usin' the same itty-bitty can o beans to make CHILI fer years...

I make up a pot o chili...venison, beef, pork...onion, peppers to suit, maters...some seasonin'...n such...

I take the can o beans ouT the cupBoArd.....waVes it over the fool pot!

Serve it up over some hot dogs with more ONION and a slice o cheeze on top...

Cole slaw (made w/RED CABBAGE) on the side...

 

[Wudidiz]

What awards and where has it won?

It won the Greatest Chili in the World Award in Cypress Texas (awarded by myself as I couldn’t get any participants that day). It won the Mobil Drilling Best Chili Cookoff in 1997 on a jackup rig off the coast of Nigeria. It won the Tuesday Chili Contest during our 2021 neighborhood garage sale. So, put that in yer pipe and smoke it!

 

[Wudidiz]

No beans takes the gas out of it!

That’s the problem.

 

[Sasquatch]

I never understood the chili and beans argument. I grew up in a Mexican household so pinto beans were always plentiful. If mom made chilli with beans nobody's going to bitch about beans in the chilli. Plus it was great tasting with beans so I don't get the fuss.

Comes down to purity of the product. Some stuff gets regionalized / americanized - chili is one such food. Authenitic chili Colorado has no beans. It also does not used ground meat, instead it uses chunks of meat. Same for chili con carne.

No doubt beans got added as a filler to make meat, which has always been something that has been expensive - either via money, time, or energy expended - last longer. Beans have always been relatively cheap, same for rice, corn, and other grains that get added to various foods.

I'll eat chili with or without beans. As a kid I hated beans for some reason - to me, back then, as a kid who never heard of the battle over beans or no beans in chili - it just came down to me not liking beans (I think, looking back, it was because I was forced once to eat shitty canned "baked beans" - I loathe baked beans from a can to this day, and would not under any circumstances eat them until I came upon a recipe for home made baked beans and made them myself. I still will not eat canned baked beans because they're all trash, even the "good" ones people have recommended. Its homemade or naught for me, in regards to baked beans.

I do draw the line at adding pasta to chili. That shit is just weirder than three tranny truckers circle jerking in a Love's parking lot to me. I'm not saying that putting spaghetti noodles in your chili will make you gay, but I'm not saying it won't either.

 

[Axxe55]

Chili con carne - Wikipedia

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Chili con carne - Wikipedia

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The debate over beans or no beans has existed before most of us were even born and likelywill exist even after we are all lon gone from this earth.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Though they may not have used them directly in the chili early cowboys lived on beans on their own or as a side dish. I would bet largely they actually did mix them in once in a while just to start some campfire discussion.

 

[Geezer]

I have just been told that my pot 'o beans looks like Irish Bean Chili. Irish Bean Chili is made with exactly 239 beans. Add just one more bean and it will be two farty.

 

[FNORD]

While up in Washington I heard of white chili.

My Gawd.

 

[BeatTheTunaUp]

My family came to Republic of Texas through Galveston in the 1850's. We've always ate beans in the chili. I think it comes down to chili without beans is a topping, with beans makes it a meal on it's own. Both are good so quit bitching lol

 

[Axxe55]

While up in Washington I heard of white chili.

My Gawd.

Chili typically made with chicken or turkey meat.

 

[Sasquatch]

While up in Washington I heard of white chili.

My Gawd.

Aah, Washington State? Did you stop at a Shari's restuarant by chance? One of their regular "soups" is white-bean chicken chili, and it is white as the driven snow. Its also not terrible, but its not spicy, and I would not honestly call it chili. Its fuckin chicken & bean soup to me.

 

[Grumps21]

This is like an oil thread

 

[Tnhawk]

Chili con carne - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chili con carne - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The debate over beans or no beans has existed before most of us were even born and likelywill exist even after we are all lon gone from this earth.

Many pounds of chili and gallons of beer have been consumed deciding this debate.

 

[Sasquatch]

Many pounds of chili and gallons of beer have been consumed deciding this debate.

The obvious answer is "Not enough"

 

[Sasquatch]

You know what - I think it doesn't matter if you're pro-bean or anti-bean for chili - we should all come together and agree that this shit is wrong:

 

[Axxe55]

Chili is primarily a Tex-Mex originated dish and beans are a large stapleof Tex-Mex cooking.

Just seem natural that they go together IMO.