Poll: is it chili if it has no meat?

[Frosty Boolit]

My wife made a "chili" without meat and I asked her where the meat was. She said it was vegetable chili to which I replied that there is no such thing. I told her it was a bean soup or stew because it isn't chili if there is no meat. I understand vegetarians will want to make substitutions for meat and still call it chili, which to me reinforces the idea that chili must contain meat. Help me out here fellers. I just know she's wrong😂

[Winger Ed.]

This is blasphemy !!

We are predators. That's why our teeth are designed to rip the flesh from other animals.

Burn the witch!

[Der Gebirgsjager]

The official name is: chili con carne. That translates to chili with meat. Therefore, chili refers to the chili pepper seasoning, and carne is the meat. So, although I voted that it should have meat, technically speaking one can have a meatless chili. But, it should be illegal. Now to get a real argument going, one has to ask if chili should have beans.

DG

[BLAHUT]

Yes; otherwise its just soup. Meat and gravy..

[Bull]

Chili has to have meat it can be beef, elk or venison (no chicken). Beans are just put in if you don’t hunt and cannot afford much meat. But you still have to have meat.

[foesgth]

Chili doesn't need meat, unless you want someone to eat it. Spicy bean soup might not be bad but it isn't chili con carne.

[gc45]

Both meant and beans or it ain't chili I would eat..My Wife makes great chili using whatever wild meat we have at the time. We dropped beef in 1995 and have felt much better for that.

[TJBCS]

Chile (chili is anglicized) refers to the chile peppers and can make a soup/gravy all by itself, so you cna put in whatever you want. That being said, it all depends where you are from and what has been deemed holy! Haha. Being from south Texas, meaning it is Tex-Mex chili, most purists will tell you it is beef, maybe some pork, onion, garlic and chile and nothing else! No beans and certainly not red beans or kidney beans. Pinto beans are what the natives like!

[Texas by God]

I just took some ground venison out of the freezer and there’s 5 alarm and Rotel tomatoes in the pantry, Enablers


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[rockrat]

I have 5 quart freezer bags of my chili ageing in the freezer. Seems like the flavors meld together after a couple of months. I take two days to make the stuff , second day is just simmering it.

[abunaitoo]

Only a woke would say chili has no meat.
It's like those Meatless hamburgers.
No meat, how can it be a hamburger????

[elmacgyver0]

Only a woke would say chili has no meat.
It's like those Meatless hamburgers.
No meat, how can it be a hamburger????

It's your wife, you had better figure out how you are going to get along with her.
I am almost 72, I learned you have better like everything your wife cooks, whether you like it or not.
To add to that, you better be prompt to the table.
In my early days of marriage, I was watching a Charles Bronson movie I had never even known existed.
My wife called me to supper (that's dinner to city folk) I was so ingrossed in the movie I didn't come to the table quite as fast as my wife expected me to.
I will never forget a scalding hot roast chicken flying across the room at me, the flight of the Phoenix.
Something I will never forget, I learned my lesson.

[DougGuy]

In Texas they tell me chili doesn't have beans, it's just meat and well, gravy would that be correct? Without meat, it is NOT chili.

Heh this whole thread needs purple!

[elmacgyver0]

In Texas they tell me chili doesn't have beans, it's just meat and well, gravy would that be correct? Without meat, it is NOT chili.

Heh this whole thread needs purple!

Please, just leave chickens out of it!

[36g]

The cure for that is to learn to cook. That way you can make what you want, when you want it, and how you want it.

[poorman]

I told her it was a bean soup or stew because it isn't chili if there is no meat.

Its not soup or stew either if it has no meat.

[Kosh75287]

No meat = No Chili. But I'm also a purist about beans. No beans in my chili (except back in college, when we threw everything in it).

[SSGOldfart]

Chili doesn't need meat, unless you want someone to eat it. Spicy bean soup might not be bad but it isn't chili con carne.

I agree we need meat,even hotdog chilli has meat.So if your eating chilli without meat you have spicy tomato sauce with Beans

[Winger Ed.]

gravy would that be correct? Without meat, it is NOT chili.

Gravy is a glorified version of flour and water.

The liquid part of chili would be more along the lines of a sauce.

[Polymath]

A woman I used to know made chili with soya bean curd. I ate it because I was polite and visiting her home, but brother, you could tell it warn't real chili. Chili-con-carne means chili with beef.