Homemade chili - beans or no beans

Real chili con carne (Mexican) uses cubed (stew) beef and/or chorizo and has no beans. It should also be spicy enough to make you feel as if you just ate Mexican.

Tex/Mex, on the other hand can have whatever the Hell you happen to have rotting in the fridge (beans included) thrown in and most people will still call it chili.

I used to point that out to people constantly as I served them my homemade chili that was based on a recipe that I got from a friend who is from Mexico. Anymore, I just let it slide, because if nobody else gives a shit, (pardon the pun) why should I.

Chili shouldn't have beans?


Are you fucking kidding me, OP?


I hope your girlfriend fucking leaves you because you are a totally ungrateful piece of god forsakened idiot.

vegan for the win

w/onion & tomato * jalapanio

I don't know what the fuck they're teaching you people down there in the great state of Texas, but if it ain't got beans, it ain't chili.

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Sheldon comments on real chili

LoL

No! With the beans it's free entertainment.

Get your one liners ready.

Serve beans on the side

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Seriously, if you were my boyfriend, and you gave me shit about putting beans in chili where they fucking belong...

Keep in mind I am a fucking great cook...

I would leave you so fucking fast it would make your head spin and I would let EVERYONE know your dirty fucking little secrets including the pathetic size of your dick, and I would be sure everyone knew everything else negative you ever said or did to me.

You wouldn't even get as bad of a backlash for literally smacking me across the face. Seriously.

Chill out dude. I just reread the OP from OP and I don't see anything in there about giving her shit. He said they had a talk about it. What's your problem anyway?

Now I read up on this very subject and the ORIGINAL chili was just beef mashed up with (guess) chiles! Since then there have been many variations introduced inlcuding 'white chili', chicken chili, pork chili. Beans or no beans, now it's the sauce flavorings that make it chili. That's why I can go to the store and buy a can of "chili beans" - no meat.

Get off yer damn high horse.

Yeah well there's two sides to every story, and I don't see OP's GF posting on here to tell her side or defend herself.

He probably nit-picks minuscule shit like this all the time and treats her like shit...

I mean it's not like that isn't typical. I've read OP's replies, seems like a total asshole to me.

You would throw love away over chili beans?

No beans, Texas red. No tomatoes either.

Serve plain beans as a side dish and let people mix them in if they want.

No real chili has beans.

Only yankees add beans and fuck it all up!

Cincinnati chili 4 ways on top of spaghetti with crackers and cheese.

My vote goes for the beans. I used to only use kidney beans from a can. But in my little store only two brands of kidney beans and both of them are too hard, even after being canned.

So I switched to pinto beans. Now I prefer them to the kidney beans.

I'm making a batch tomorrow and picked up all my ingredients today.

What's better than a "good" bowl of chili?

chili without beans is spaghetti sauce

Chili without beans is called spaghetti sauce

kidney beans

Hi,
We have been together for about 10 years. We treat each other with respect. We never fight. We have both been thru alot together. I listen to her thoughts, views and ideas. She listens to mine. We don't have to agree about everything, No reason to fight about it. If we were exactly like each other that would be very boring. LOL.

We are in our mid-40's. After being ran thru the coals by socialpaths and other evils in the world, we got out if it together. Having each other's back is the only way. Like I said, we don't aways agree about everything and that is fine with both of us. Our core beliefs are the same.

There are some differences to keep things interesting... Last night it was beans. :)

I don't like beans in my chili.
She likes beans in her chili.
I respect that.
So does she,

We talked about it then watched some Walking Dead. We had a great night. Life is too short to look for drama everywhere. That is something we both believe in.

Make the chili and beans separately.

If you want beans with the chili...just add some.

Simple.

Beans and chili do go together very well, so I prefer my chili with beans -- thank you :)

Last Edited by MesaMom on 12/03/2012 09:27 PM

That is what she decided she was going to do next time. She said she likes chili on a baked potato but not with beans. So leftovers today i saw her navigating around the beans.. LOL As for a regular good bowl of chili she wants beans in it,

That is what she decided she was going to do next time. She said she likes chili on a baked potato but not with beans. So leftovers today i saw her navigating around the beans.. LOL As for a regular good bowl of chili she wants beans in it,

Chili with pintos is great. You want real heresy? Take mesquite smoked sausage and/or pork/venison sauasage. Split them in half at hot dog lengths. Brown them in a skillet and when caramelized add the beanless chili. Use them like hot dogs in hot dog buns. Add chili and Guldens deli mustard as a topping. Fuckin better than better was ever better! It's like "hold sex I'm having a better time".

Sorry about the double post. Stupid phone did it,

Here's a link to the World Chili Championship Cookoff recipes from 1967 to 2012, sponsored by the International Chili Society.

These folks are pretty serious about their chili and one thing is for sure,

NO BEANS!!!

[link to www.chilicookoff.com]

a interesting history of chili as well...

[link to www.chilicookoff.com]


I've made about 6 different chili dishes using the recipes from the ICS website there and have been happy with every one of them.

What a strange question. If you put beans in chili, it is no longer chili, but Chili beans. Chili does NOT have beans. Chili is meat and seasonings. Next you'll be talking about putting celery in chili.