NO BEANS IN CHILI......

Mickey

VI just sent me this....... I subscribe to a "Traces of Texas" site on Facebook, and there was an entry on beans in chili this morning. I remember the spats on the BGE forum, so I thought you might enjoy this. The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Chili has no beans. If you have something in a bowl that is called chili but it has beans (Wendy's Hamburgers, I'm looking at you here), it is not chili. It might be "chili flavored soup" or something, but it isn't chili. The legendary Frank X. Tolbert in his classic book, "A Bowl of Red," makes this point perfectly clear and contest rules of the Chili Appreciation Society International reinforce it: no beans. My understanding is that Wolf Brand had to start putting beans in their "chili" so as not to offend delicate Yankee sensibilities. On a side note, H. Allen Smith once wrote that "the chief ingredients of all chili are fiery envy, scalding jealousy, scorching contempt, and sizzling scorn.” It sounds like H. Allen must have consumed some of my uncle Wayne's famous "chili con carnage" before he wrote that. .......................................................................... Back to me. On a side note Wolf Brand Chili (without beans) is IMO the best can of chili out there. And thank you VI for the note.

Mickey

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GATraveller

All good chili has beans.

NervousDad

I always put beans in my chili, I smash them to make the texture better.

Mickey

GATraveller said:

All good chili has beans.

Just like all good peach cobbler has pecans )

Mickey

NervousDad said:

I always put beans in my chili, I smash them to make the texture better.

Now I do that same trick in a pot of pintos. Makes good pintos.

bettysnephew

I always liked Sheldon Cooper's line (Big Bang Theory) on Penny's version of chili with beans:

"This is good, I don't know what it is, but it's good."

Yes, some Iowans also think chili with beans is a travesty. I cannot tolerate it as spicy as I used to, but beans need to be with ham or bacon in a thick white soup like my German grandma made.

Grillin_beers

I've had great chili with beans and without beans. I'm not too picky either way. Most of the recipes around here seem to have beans in them.

Doc_Eggerton

If you have no beans in chili, it is just meat sauce.  Might as well pour it over noodles.

EgginATL42

This is a current "discussion" in our house as well. I'm preparing to do my first BGE a chili this weekend (either Friday or Saturday) and I've been researching different recipes. My wife claims "it's not chili without beans," while personally, I tend to think the fewer beans the better (with the best results as you approach zero beans). I may have to include a bean or two in the mix to keep the wife happy.

sodigthisbigcrux

beans, beans the muscial fruit. The more you eat the more you toot.

Who am I to deny my wife glorious flatulence?

The beans stay...unless I'm making chili for chili dogs.

GATraveller

Mickey said:

GATraveller said:

All good chili has beans.

Just like all good peach cobbler has pecans )

Them's fightin words boy!!!

shtgunal3

I don't like kidney beans in my chili. I always use pintos.

fishlessman

can we make it with pork



or veal shanks



put a cinimon stick in it



put it on potatoes



mix it with macaroni



onions and cheese ok?



you didnt really mean no beans did you



imagine it in a pie




or no beef at all, lobster



i made 6 quarts of red this weekend
so much for our delicate palettes

shtgunal3

Hey @mickey , send me a recipe for some really good (but simple) "Texas Red" and I will give a try.

NCSmoky

Grew up in Cincinnati, Skyline Chili = no beans.

Eggcelsior

I am all for tradition with food. When I make chili, it has no beans. When I make meat and bean stew, it has beans. I most often make meat and bean stew because it tastes good and my family likes it. They may even call it chili, but they are heathens like the rest of you jokers trying to pervert the good name of chili with beans. I am okay with serving them on the side, so you could have chili with beans.

Eggcelsior

Doc_Eggerton said:

If you have no beans in chili, it is just meat sauce.  Might as well pour it over noodles.

Only in Cincinnati where they serve " horrifying diarrhea sludge".

NCSmoky

Eggcelsior said:

Doc_Eggerton said:

If you have no beans in chili, it is just meat sauce.  Might as well pour it over noodles.

Only in Cincinnati where they serve " horrifying diarrhea sludge".

Blasphemy!

Eggcelsior

@NCSmoky that article and the follow-up where absolutely hilarious, either way.Watch the superclip of the news anchors all saying it. Comedy gold!

lkapigian

@Mickey‌ thanks for sharing

henapple

Legumophobes...

Mickey

@fishlessman‌ all I can say is: Damn nice pictures man. My chili always has cheese and onions on the side of the bowl ready to be added along with saltine crackers stacked up.

tarheelmatt

@Mickey here in NC, or well, where I was brought up, chili was, well, chili.  Now, sometimes we would have chilli beans.  That is when you added kidney or pintos to the chili.  

My wife from Ohio (Columbus area) thinks that is weird, but politely told her shes in NC now and to conform... lol. 

fishlessman

Mickey said:

@fishlessman‌ all I can say is: Damn nice pictures man. My chili always has cheese and onions on the side of the bowl ready to be added along with saltine crackers stacked up.

i believe the one with the cheese and raw onions was from that chili packet you sent me, that was a good chili. ill pass though on the canned stuff, i cant eat chili or beans from a can

Eggcelsior

fishlessman said:

Mickey said:

@fishlessman‌ all I can say is: Damn nice pictures man. My chili always has cheese and onions on the side of the bowl ready to be added along with saltine crackers stacked up.

i believe the one with the cheese and raw onions was from that chili packet you sent me, that was a good chili. ill pass though on the canned stuff, i cant eat chili or beans from a can

Typically, the canned stuff passes through you as well(quickly).

henapple

The Ron White Cincinnati chili bit is hilarious.

Acn

I think chili has expanded and can handle both bean and non-bean preparations.  Texas-style chili would clearly have no beans, but every time I see a Texan get inflamed about somebody daring to call something with beans 'chili' I try to imagine their reaction if somebody were to tell them that only classically prepared Bavarian-style brews were allowed to be called beer, they needed to refer to what was in their glass as 'fermented malt beverage.'

henapple

Watch "Ron White on Chili and goats" on YouTube
Ron White on Chili and goats: http://youtu.be/ukCr6fG9pug

Mickey

fishlessman said:

Mickey said:

@fishlessman‌ all I can say is: Damn nice pictures man. My chili always has cheese and onions on the side of the bowl ready to be added along with saltine crackers stacked up.

i believe the one with the cheese and raw onions was from that chili packet you sent me, that was a good chili. ill pass though on the canned stuff, i cant eat chili or beans from a can

That is my goto chili. Cin Chili is fast, super easy, and damn good (IMO). I bought 6 pac's yesterday. Scratch chili is not simple or quick.

Popsicle

You are so correct Mickey. You stop making Chili when you start adding beans.