[Steve_Seattle]

"You can make perfectly good chili with ground beef, for home use but not for a competition."

I think the contest that those people won prohibited ground beef, but I'm not sure. It was supposed to be "genuine" Texas chili.

[GeronL]

fajita meat would be allowable then?

[jimt]

It was supposed to be "genuine" Texas chili.

Horsepuckey. There ain't no such thing. And you CAN win cookoffs using ground meat. I've won two using a combination of ground beef, turkey burger and pork sausage.

Of course, if it's a cookoff with rules thought up by an "eggspurt", or a consensus of officious clowns, there may be all kinds of idiotic requirements.