Texans are going to be mad
I just discovered Cowboy Chili. And it’s good. And it has beans. And also potatoes.
I just discovered Cowboy Chili. And it’s good. And it has beans. And also potatoes.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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December 17th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Meh, I eat things that taste good. I put things into my mouth that taste good. If it tastes like ass, I won’t continue to put it into my mouth.
Screw Chili Ideology.
December 17th, 2013 at 10:38 pm
Thats not chili, thats some sort of vile ass stew.
December 17th, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Potatoes? Sacrilege. May the ghost of Sam Houston haunt your kitchen.
December 18th, 2013 at 9:41 am
I guess you are OK with calling magazines “Clips?” Because if it has beans and potatoes, it’s not Chili.
December 18th, 2013 at 9:41 am
Welcome to the fold, brother…
December 18th, 2013 at 10:40 am
What do Texans know about chili in the first place? Now try to pull that off in New Mexico …
December 18th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Son, you can put anything you want in the pot, and call it whatever you want, but what it ain’t is Chili.
December 18th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
In other words, you found someone’s beef stew that they figured that they could sell to Tennessee Tenderfoots if they called it “cowboy chili”.
December 18th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Transplanted to Texas in my adulthood, I learned that Chili has nothing but meat and spices in it. And I know that beans and taters can stretch a meat dish to feed a bigger crowd.
I am willing to believe that at some point in the history of the Wild West, a trail cook ran short of ready-to-cook beef at the Chuck Wagon and accidentally dumped a pot of beans and some taters into a pot of Chili to stretch it far enough to feed the whole gang, or at least one Cowboy got tired of eating plain old beans and plain old potatoes as side dishes and mixed them into his Chili to make them more palatable.
But such things are not recorded in Texas myth and legend, let alone history, and you in Tennessee should recall that “Caveat emptor” applies to eating as well as shopping.
December 18th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Potatoes is just … baffling.
I’m no chili purist – while I’ll make it from scratch with chipotles in adobo, I also always put in beans, because I love beans.
But … potatoes? I just don’t understand the point.
(It’s also why I don’t like vindaloo much. I love spicy, I love curry, but the potatoes just don’t do it for me.)
December 18th, 2013 at 8:05 pm
I think they just call it cowboy chili. It’s not really like a stew or texas chili or 49 state chili.
December 19th, 2013 at 2:45 am
and I suppose no-one ever put chili on French fries.
December 19th, 2013 at 10:49 am
That’s different- that is chili ON potatoes. Same thing with chili and cheese on a baked potato. putting potatoes IN the chili makes it something different