Beans in Chili alert!

[Orange&White]

Salt Lick 360. Venison Chili has beans in it. Consider yourselves warned.

 

[Cherchez LaGhost]

that place is a waste of time.

 

[TexasHooch]

I've never applied the bean rule to non beef chili.

 

[THEU]

Is there something wrong with beans in chili?

 

[DallasCowpoke]

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Noooo, not if you hate Jesus!

 

[RabidLonghorn]

If you like beans in chili you aint from Texas.

 

[DoobieWah]

I'm from Texas and that means I eat my chili any damned way I please.

 

[C-Man]

I'm also from Texas and I like beans in my chili.

 

[Smoky Brisket]

Here's how I look at it. I like beans. I like beef. Sure does make sense to put them in the same pot.

But I also recognize that the State Dish is a bowl of red, meaning chili con carne, sans frijoles.

 

[THEU]

I was joking. I do like chili without beans, and I like it with beans ( just not kidney beans). I don't think it is a huge matter one way or the other. I just like good chili as opposed to bad chili. I have had way better chili with beans than bad chili without beans.

 

[crackamacgowski]

Damn, I want some chili.

 

[Orangesweat]

It don't make a **** to me. I like my Chili with or without beans.

 

[TXHookem]

I used to be a "no beans in mah chili" person but now I stick'em in there for the nutritional value... and the ensuing "musical" accompaniment.

 

[S197HQQKEM]

Salt Lick eh?

It figures.

 

[austintexas]

the Texians learned from the Mexicans that chili and beans should never mix. Serve beans with chili, but not in it.

 

[UTEE]

Texas red = no beans

That said, my momma makers her chili WITH beans, and she's from Texas and lived here a lot longer than the vast majority of folks posting on this message board.

My main problem with beans in chili (other than the fact that beans don't belong in chili) is that in most chili-flavored bean soup that family or friends have made, the beans just never come out right. They're either too soft and mushy because they've cooked too long, or they're too hard and distinct. The great thing about carne-only Texas red is that over time, it slowly falls apart and absorbs the delicious spices. It's meat, so it can stand up to the long cooking time. But beans just don't do this very well.

Now, I know, all of you chili-flavored bean-soup proponents will tell me that YOUR beans come out perfect.

And I'm telling you that no, they don't.

 

[Ankf00]

just as long as it's not hamburger meat chili, or kidney bean chilli, i will not object.

 

[jmrob93]

I like it both ways-- my grandmother always made it with beans and served it over rice and her grandfather reportedly liked beans in his chili-- he was born in Texas in 1836--so there you have it

 

[LosIllini]

Beans are allright- when the alternative is macaroni.