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In reply to the discussion: This discussion may draw blood: I just won a Chili Cook-Off [View all]A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)33. Beans have no place in chili but meat does?
I never heard of chili beef, or chili pork, or chili lamb. I can however go to the pantry right now and get a can of chili beans. As another poster said, chili without beans is hot dog topping. I do however prefer kidney beans for filler and flavor in my chili.
Don't let the cow pushers tell you how to cook they just want to sell more meat.
As for the meat in chili or many other old time spicy dish, traditionally meat that had turned or was about to turn bad was used, that's why the spices were so heavy, to hid the fact that rancid meat had been used. The dishes were also cooked for very long times to make sure the bacteria, not that they knew what it was back in the day, was killed.
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I don't think too many people would win cook offs if they stuck to authenticity
Major Nikon
Oct 2014
#30
Cowboys most certainly did have beans, have you never watched "Blazing Saddles"? n/t
A Simple Game
Oct 2014
#32
That is another dish altogether = Chili Spaghetti, where the east meets the west
Tuesday Afternoon
Oct 2014
#10
The full name of the dish is also the list of ingredients: Chile con carne means chilli with beef.
Xipe Totec
Oct 2014
#58
I'm okay with that. I'll take either, but the first line I'd go to would be the just-meat one.
calimary
Oct 2014
#49