You can’t make this stuff up........
I'm guessing it is made up.
Apparently you can. Unless I miss my guess, this is a satire site. The guy's wife that that when they talked about "getting down to chili" they were talking about the order of their food consumption rather than the south american country of Chile? Come on! And read some of the other articles at the original source. The reason that it sounds so Onionesque is that it is a satire site.