Chili may be served with pinto beans and corn bread ON THE SIDE. If the “chili” contains beans, onions, tomatoes, rutabagas, kumquats, or any fruit or vegetable other than chiles, it is not chili.
None of the other foods you mention are chili.
Share your recipe with us. I thought there was only one type of chili and thats the chili that wins this.
http://www.chilicookoff.com/Recipe/Recipe_Detail.asp?RecipeID=12
The fella is the worlds only undefeated Chili Champ.
Never been beat.
All of the foods I mentioned are chili.
Chili can contain beef, pork, lamb, venison, chicken, veal, buffalo,turkey, fish, etc. and beans, peanut butter, tomatoes, rice, corn, potato, cheese, chocolate, squash, onion, hot peppers, sweet peppers, pineapple, mustard, lime, orange, oil, beer, wine, corn meal, brown sugar, molasses, salt, black pepper, oregano, cumin, cinnamon, cilintro, garlic, pasta, and just about any other thing one choses to put in their chili.
I acknowledge your Texas position regarding beans but chili long ago surpassed Texas. Chili is more a state of mind that cannot be reduced to any one recipe or any one state of mind.
The beautiful large cast iron pot of chili pictured in the post is found on a web site featuring an award winning chili recipe, Linda's Chili Con Carne, which contains beans.
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