Mmm. Chili con carnage.

It's all about steak chili. Not ground beef or other barely-fleshy forms of meat. Its gotta be chunks like when you cut off the end of your finger with a bandsaw. But without the bones or nails. Chili shouldn't be crunchy. And beef is cheaper than fingertips except when you're mad at your relatives.

"The trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased? Stick to priest."

Personally, I like my red with beans if I'm just eating a bowl, or with no beans if I'm having it with chips, on a burger, or the like.

I have to agree with caerdwyn, though -- no ground meat. I usually do a 3-meat chili with chicken thighs, beef round, and pork shoulder, cubed and seared before being slow-cooked in a chipotle, tomato, and beer sauce. It always comes out awesome.

Where's the Like to mix it up, but absolutely NO NOODLES! option? >_<

wow, human is beating vegetarian right now...

Everything's better with cannibalism!

I had to make chili for our household with meat, beans, spices. It is now officially called Man Chili, because when my wife makes chili it becomes a slightly chili flavored vegetable soup and that is NOT chili.

I did make Fizban's Four Fireball all meat chili once. I guess I just like beans.


At this exact moment it appears that 12.2% of respondents are from Wisconsin.









Because of the cannibalism.

HILARITY!

Just meat and spices is like saying pizza is just flour and tomato juice. Here in Texas chili often contains beer and rattlesnake too! And absolutely no beans! Beans are for Yankees.

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Monmaker wrote:Where's the Like to mix it up, but absolutely NO NOODLES! option? >_<

Ditto that. Chili should be in a bowl and eaten with a spoon, not on top of spaghetti.

Technically as Sheldon once said, chili does not contain beans. Once you add beans it is no longer chili. You'd be better off calling it meat and bean soup.


Chili: a thick sauce of meat and chilies

nicklanctot wrote:Technically as Sheldon once said, chili does not contain beans. Once you add beans it is no longer chili. You'd be better off calling it meat and bean soup.


Chili: a thick sauce of meat and chilies

Amen

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!

Chili itself is just wet meat and spices (or meat and wet spices). It is best eaten with noodles, beans, cheese, garlic and onions, though--maybe a dash of hot sauce, too.

I've heard tales of something referred to as "Texas Chili." I believe this is often served with beans, though a common restaurant alternative includes human fingers. Never having been to Texas, I don't think I can comment on this, but I understand why the cannibal choice is so popular.

zoinks6022 wrote:SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!

Don't forget the sequel:

IT'S STILL PEOPLE!

VEGETARIANS FTW!!!

"Vegetarian" is the second saddest word in the English language. ("Vegan" is first.)

The only authentic, proper recipe for chili is to take everything you've got that's about to go bad and cook it with so much heat and spice that you don't notice the off flavors. A corollary is that you cannot use ingredients that aren't about to go bad. This would include beans and (this is really insane) spaghetti.

(It's true that freshly made spaghetti could go bad. You just tell me how many cowboys rolled out pasta dough to the right thickness and carefully trimmed equally thick strands.)

editorkid wrote:"Vegetarian" is the second saddest word in the English language. ("Vegan" is first.)

Explain. I believe that eating meat is murder.

mikeandike93 wrote:Explain. I believe that eating meat is murder.

Agreed Mike. Vegetarians unite!

mikeandike93 wrote:Explain. I believe that eating meat is murder.

I *know* I'm going to regret saying this, but I can live with that. Actually, I do. Steak is tasty. Rack of lamb is like heaven. Chicken Paprikash and Duck a l'Orange and Crisp fresh grilled Pheasant... Now I'm getting hungry.

mikeandike93 wrote:Explain. I believe that eating meat is murder.

By that logic, better start shooting lions, then. And bears. And the dog next door.

Four of the teeth in your mouth are pointy for a REASON.

mikeandike93 wrote:Explain. I believe that eating meat is murder.

Tasty, tasty murder.