Point, Missed
Posted by TFG on September 26th, 2005
I try not to be critical (HAH!), but this post about chili and the ensuing comment thread is revolting. Pineapples, beans, fennel, sugar, Chinese star anise — these are things people are putting in chili all across the nation.
Read that again: Chili. With. Pineapples.
For you folks who are not chili-heads, that is the functional equivalent of slathering Welch’s grape jelly all over a Philly cheesesteak. Frankly, it’s heresy to call the result ‘chili.’
Well, anyway, just thought you should know that.
September 26th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
I remember the good ole days when you cooked chile to used up your semi-ranzid meats. The older the meat the hotter the chile.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Almost as nauseating as pizza with pineapple. Phatooey!
September 26th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Good gawd, I come home drunk hoping for good news, and as I scroll down your blog, it just gets worse. I hate to see what’s next.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Pineapple in chili? Blasphemy!
September 27th, 2005 at 8:26 am
Pineapples? Fennel? Sugar? Chinese Star Anise (whatever the hell that is..)????? Well, that’s just not Chili then. I don’t know what to call it….but it definitely is NOT Chili.
Red Beans are OK in Chili….but before y’all launch the grenades, I admit that I’m not a native Texan. BTW, ever been to Cincinnati? They put Macaroni in Chili there….
September 27th, 2005 at 9:55 am
People just don’t get it. It ain’t chili with all that other crap in it. It’s stew. Spicy stew, but stew. Leave it out, put it on the side, better yet, out the door. It just ain’t chili.
September 27th, 2005 at 11:45 am
I for one welcome our new pineapple in chili overlords
September 27th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
How about that chili they serve in Cincinnati, that stuff over noodles. Any opinion on that?
September 27th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
To be fair to the Ohioans, I put my chili over rice, with cheese and onions. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm.
What I don’t do is put corn, stewed tomatoes, sweet peas, or other alien artifacts in my chili, like those Ohioans.
September 28th, 2005 at 2:41 am
OK, so this is a bit late, but I thought that it might add to your disgruntlement.
September 28th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
Since my wife is Japanese, we eat everything on rice, though I avoid it under chili as much as possible. But on another note, I add molasses as the no longer secret ingredient to my chili becuase I like a sweet, hot taste to it and it does seem to go with tomatoes (tomatos? Where’s Dan Quayle when he could be useful?) fairly well. Does that count as blasphemy?
September 28th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Fall is Here, Chili is Near
Autumn has finally reached the DFW region.
After high temperatures last week hovered around the hundred-degree mark, a front is currently sweeping through with the first fall weather of the season. Tonight’s low is predicted to be only 63 degr…
September 29th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Charles, my sweet-tooth hides out most of the time, so molasses (or brown sugar or even tomatoes) is too much sugar for MY tastes. But I know lots of people use those kinds of secret ingredients for their competition chili, since most people (judges) like the lightly=sweet taste.