The wrong gun
People often get emotionally attached to their choices. Whether it’s the Chevy owner who has to insist Ford sucks or an iPhone user who prays for the redemption of all Android heathens, sometimes it’s difficult to see past works for me and realize it doesn’t necessarily equate with best for everyone everywhere every minute under every circumstance.
No word on beans in chili though.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:51 am
You can put beans in chili, as long as there’s MEAT.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:53 am
People who know beans about chili, know that chili HAS no beans…
MC
February 11th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Around here, lots of people put spaghetti in their chili.
I don’t know why.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Remember chili has no beans. If chili has beans..then it should be called chili with beans or …stew.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Only acceptable time to put beans in Chili is when making Frito pies.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Well, I’m glad that Todd has settled that issue. So we can now use “Common Guns” like Hi-Points, Judges and Jennings and feel perfectly safe. ; )
February 11th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
If it has beans, it is stew, not chili.
February 11th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I’m still trying to figure out the one great mystery in life:
If chili doesn’t have beans, and chili con carne is chili with meat added, then I can only assume they’re selling Schrodinger’s cat in a can.
February 11th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Why, that’s right of course. Genuine chili contains nothing but chiles, salt, and tomatoes (not pre-made sauce, either). The only permissible carne to add was the flesh of conquistadors — right up until Lyndon Johnson changed the recipe. Youse can look it up.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
1911!
February 11th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Chili has beans, always did. Originally the dish DIDN’T have meat, as those who created it, didn’t have meat to put in it, but they did have beans.
When gringos started making chili, they added meat. The originators thought that was a great idea, and chili con carne was born!
Chili has beans…period!
February 11th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Chili has beans – lots of beans – and at least two Scotch Bonnets added in. Of course, thirty years after you have been enjoying your chili ( with beans, of course) George Lucas will come along and shout out across the internets that chili has no beans.
February 12th, 2012 at 2:54 am
When first I arrived in Texas my roomie, a native Texan, explained to me that beans were added to chili only for entertainment purposes, and then only for serving to northerners and other immigrants.
Charro and borracho beans… now you’ve found a good use for beans!
February 13th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Beans in chili is an abomination in the sight of The Lord. Oh, Canthros, that Cincinnatti stuff is not really chili, but just bad spaghetti.
P.s. The comment form won’t let me double-space after periods. What’s up with that? Hey, I learned to type on a real steam typewriter. Norwegian steam, if you catch my drift.
February 14th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Chili is in the peppers, spices, and aromatics. I’ll eat chili con carne and/or with beans (I’m an omnivore).