I’ve heard of “wine snobs,” but “CHILI-SNOBS”???
Good grief!
If you make it, and you like it, and you want to call it chili, ...it’s chili.
(After all, it’s origin was just to cover up the taste of rotten meat in prisons. It’s not exactly gourmet food.)
Hank
Nope, sorry. Words have meanings. If you make a pie with apples, you can call it a “peach pie” all you like, but it remains an apple pie. Same with chili.
And whoever told you that chili began as prison food is wrong. Chili is cowboy food, born on the trail.