Texas chili sounds like sloppy joes to me, maybe its good. Up here in the Great Lakes we eat chili with beans I guess so it sticks to the ribs as they say.
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Texas chili sounds like sloppy joes to me, maybe its good. Up here in the Great Lakes we eat chili with beans I guess so it sticks to the ribs as they say.
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Always tickles me to hear the "experts" out Terlingua way speak as to the "correct" way to fix chili. When they say "no beans allowed" it always make me wonder, just what are they afraid of?.......they keep saying that the trail cooks never put beans in their chili. My response has and will always be..... horse $h-t, them cooks did the same thing my Momma did when she was tryin to feed six kids.....you put everything you got in the pot and hope it stretches far enough to get em fed and back out in the field.
Probably would have been at least as accurate to say that the trail drive cooks never put chili in their beans...!!!
a year later and blown away in the poll and the Texans still think there right:redneck:
Another vote for beans....
Beans
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Ok, Y'all talked me into it. I will withdraw my vote for no beans, in exchange for getting to try a bowl of each of your best attempt at chili, even the ones with beans. I know some of you all may think I have lost my mind, but I care enough about each and everyone here to jump on that grenade for the group. So who's cooking first?
I'm trying to stir something up. :)
Flatulence could be the answer,all that bouncing on Horseback could start those Beans a working.
I know how I like my chili, don't really care what anybody else thinks about it.
OK, I researched it. Texas trail drivers used beans in the water and put beef butchered the night before into it. I suppose the chili peppers helped with digestion and taste. Dry beans don't do well at all. Checkout Goodnight trails.
Popper,
There you go throwing facts into a perfectly good argument. But for what it's worth, my personal dietary rule has always been that I have no right to complain about anyone else's cooking if I still eat my own cooking. So these arguments are just a fun time picking on friends and getting picked on. Mind if I ask where you found historical records? Would be interesting to try an original recipe to see how it is different from all the variants that have developed into what we all cook today.
Well, I grew up in Texas, but I do like beans in my chili. Kinfolks down there would probably disown me if they found out, so mum's the word, OK?
Google Charles Goodnight, started the texas cattle drive to provide beef to the midwest while there was a cattle disease in the midwest. He 'invented' the chuckwagon, long drives & a working method to get herds moving. And you DON"T mess with the cook! Looked it up for GS for a school project. Really interesting & TRUE for the 'wild west'. Barbed wire was 'invented' in San Antonio and most of the drives actually originated there, not Ft. Worth (holding pens in FW). Pretty much ended when the RR got south and midwest herds were 'cured'.
Thank you very much, Popper. One more aspect of history to research, and the results will be tasty!
As mentioned above whether traditional or not, I add beans to chili for the same reason I do to gumbo or soup. To stretch the meal and add a starch to feed all the darn people that live with me, who eat all my food. Few other dishes are held to such silly standards of orthodoxy. Though I don't think ketchup belongs on hotdogs, unless you're seven.
Lemme throw a curve in here....I have a couple of friends that do not like beans. Both say that it has to do with the texture......blah, blah, blah.......:kidding:.
A couple of yeas ago I did a little experiment using those two bean-haters as my test dummies. I made a big pot of chili changing only one thing in the preparation......I put the (cooked) beans in a blender and smooshed em down to a paste which I then poured into the chili........I did not tell the dummies what I had done until after the meal.........yeah, rave reviews all around. [smilie=p: