Food Fight: Pedantic edition
One of the things that cracks me up in it’s sheer pointlessness is how devotees of certain food types get upset if someone else makes a similar dish and calls it the same thing. The classic is how chili doesn’t have beans in Texas but in 49 other states it does. So, those 49 states are clearly wrong. Or if you don’t boil it, it’s not a bagel! And here in the south, all soft drinks are cokes. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Coca Cola product or Pepsi. It’s still a coke.
Now, PawPaw is upset that I referred to some Cajun boiled peanuts. Having just got back from South Carolina, let me tell you Cajun boiled peanuts are everywhere. In this case, I don’t think Cajun refers to the group or ethnicity that came up with the food. But the style of spices that go in the pot. For instance, when I get in a Korean barbecue mode and, for an appetizer, toss some cucumbers on the grill before the meat, they’re not Korean barbecued cucumbers in that I think Koreans actually made them. But they are in the style I used to cook them.
But we can all agree this is not chili.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:05 am
There was a place in Springfield, IL (I think) that served what they called ‘chili’. It was a pile of spicy meat in a pool of grease. Literally.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:07 am
That…whatever it was…is “chili” in the same sense the “Manhattan style” is clam chowder.
In other words, not.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:08 am
No, Cincy is legit. And beans are legit as a topping.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:12 am
We put chili with beans on spagetti. We call it using up leftovers.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Those of us that dont like beans appreciate chili without π
June 18th, 2012 at 10:38 am
It’s called “pop”
June 18th, 2012 at 10:44 am
If it has any chunks in it, besides meat, it is a spicy stew and not chili.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Ahem. Chili without beans is taco meat.
June 18th, 2012 at 11:41 am
bean stew is chili? How odd.
June 18th, 2012 at 11:56 am
I put chili on spaghetti or I put spaghetti on top of chili. Either way – I guess it depends on what order I dump the bad refrigerator leftovers into the garbage can.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Brenda +1. It’s also called “soda”. Been all over this land over my 68 years, and while I’ve heard of Coke, Pepsi, RC and any other cola referred to as “coke”, I’ve never heard of any other flavor of fizzed water & sugar referred to as “soda”.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Make that last word “coke”.
June 18th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
I’m in Georgia, and a Coke is a Coke. Pepsi is Pepsi. Any brand is called a soda. Just sayin…
June 18th, 2012 at 3:28 pm
In South Texas, carbonated beverages of any flavour/type are referred to as “soda water”.
However being born in Florida and living most of my formative years in Tennessee (Oak Ridge), they’re all “Coke”.
The “What do you want to drink?” “A coke.” “What kind?” conversation isn’t just a comedy routine. Heck, our HS yearbook staff even had to change some photo captions because they capitalized “Coke” and were showing pics of Dr. Pepper or Pepsi.
Also, you are very right Unc, those other 49 states are wrong.
June 18th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Cincinnati should be placed under martial law til they give up that stupid “chili” BS.
June 18th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
If it ain’t got beans, it ain’t chili.
That stuff they call chili in parts of Texas is just taco or burrito filling without enough flour to make the tortillas!
June 18th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Chocolate? WTF? That is definitely NOT chili.
I have to admit that I didn’t know bagels were boiled, but that’s OK — it just gives me another reason not to like them.
Q: What is a bagel? A: A doughnut made out of cement.
June 18th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Not only does chili not have beans, it doesn’t have tomato either.
You Philistines need to find other names for whatever the hell glop you eat.
June 18th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
In Canada, chilli is considered to be proper only if it has venison, or elk or moose meat.
We just add beans in order to drive Texans freaking crazy. π
June 19th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Leave my Dad outta this! π
June 19th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
+1 fot Davek!
If you want beans and tomatoes, you’re going for vegetable soup.
MC
June 19th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Sorry, but you Chili without beans guys have it all wrong!
Chili has beans, and if it has meat its called “chili con carne”.
June 19th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
As a wise man once said, Cincinnatti “chili” isn’t chili, it’s bad spaghetti.