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Chili. Beans or not. Time to Settle this once and for all. (1 Viewer)

Your opinion on beans in chili?

  • OMG IF THERE ARE BEANS IT'S NOT EVEN CHILI!!

    Votes: 33 11.6%
  • I definitely prefer no beans in chili

    Votes: 44 15.4%
  • Whatevs.

    Votes: 58 20.4%
  • I like beans in chili a lot.

    Votes: 71 24.9%
  • Why would you not have beans in chili? Isn't that like some kind of meat soup?

    Votes: 79 27.7%

  • Total voters
    285
I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
So what do the beans do that changes the chili? other than make it more awesomer????

 
I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?

 
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I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.

 
I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Now you are just being stupid.

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
beans = repulsive filler

 
I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Now you are just being stupid.
More sarcastic, but yes, I'm being purposely stupid here.

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
beans = repulsive filler
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Seriously, if you don't enjoy it with beans, don't have it that way.

 
You no-bean people are strange.

Beans all the way. I didn't even know chili without beans was a thing. That's like basically taking sloppy Joe meat and making them chili flavor and eating it with a spoon.

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
beans = repulsive filler
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Your face is repulsive filler.

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Seriously, if you don't enjoy it with beans, don't have it that way.
i just don't enjoy beans at all, it is not that i have some moral objection to beans in chili. If you want bacon and brussel sprouts in your chili fine by me!

 
How about chili (with beans) on top of pasta, with shredded cheese and a little sour cream on top?

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
I don't make the rules.

I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Yes to the bolded.

Let me put it this way. What if someone doesn't eat meat, and doesn't like chile pepper? Can they just put tofu and tomatoes in a pot of water and call it chile? Of course not. It would be total anarchy.

 
Eating a bowl chili is like getting a blow job. None are really bad, just some are better than others.

 
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Pro beans here

I've posted this before but what amazes me the most is how terrible people can be at making chili. We've had various chili cook offs at work or someone brings it in for a potluck and I'm like oh hell yeah chili and get a nice big bowl...and then find out it's completely devoid of flavor and then I'm stuck eating the chili or accidentally dropping it on the floor instead of eating the good chili or meatballs or an extra sandwich or something
Based on the last chili contest at work... most people like the devoid of flavor watery hamburger chili that has pasta and cheese built in to it.
You are in Milwaukee so...duh.

 
You no-bean people are strange.

Beans all the way. I didn't even know chili without beans was a thing. That's like basically taking sloppy Joe meat and making them chili flavor and eating it with a spoon.
Sloppy Joe is made from hamburger, proper chili is made from non-ground meat.

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
I don't make the rules.

I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Yes to the bolded.

Let me put it this way. What if someone doesn't eat meat, and doesn't like chile pepper? Can they just put tofu and tomatoes in a pot of water and call it chile? Of course not. It would be total anarchy.
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http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/contest-winning-vegetarian-chili

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/vegetarian-chili-recipe.html

 
You no-bean people are strange.

Beans all the way. I didn't even know chili without beans was a thing. That's like basically taking sloppy Joe meat and making them chili flavor and eating it with a spoon.
Chili was invented in Texas and Texas is a place where putting beans in chili is a major faux pas, if not a misdemeanor offense.

Chili also shouldn't have hamburger meat in it. Coarse ground beef is acceptable, though not preferred. The best solution is chunks of brisket or chuck that are braised down until they basically fall apart.

I've had plenty of good tasting "chili" that contained regular ground beef and beans. It isn't like it is terrible, it just isn't real chili. Just like ribs cooked in an oven with BBQ sauce taste pretty good, even if they in no way qualify as being called "barbecue".

 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/beans-in-chili-american-debate_n_3984180.html

There are a few really great food feuds that will never die: New York pizza vs. Chicago pizza, whether it's a hoagie or a grinder, whose barbecue is the best and whether or not beans are allowed in chili. NOW EVERYONE CALM DOWN. Since football food season is now on, we want to tackle the age old question of which chili recipe is the best chili recipe.

The answer, really, is kind of a cop out so please don't yell at us -- all chili is good chili and we can live in peace and harmony when it comes to beans. Really, seriously, Texas. We see you getting red in the face over there. Your meat-and-chile-only chili (also known as a bowl of red) is one of your greatest contributions to American culinary history. But if someone wants to put beans in it, they should totally be allowed to. Because beans are delicious, cheap and good for you. For goodness' sake, Cincinnati puts cocoa powder in their chili and it still tastes good, so we've decided that chili really cannot be screwed up. In case it wasn't clear, we are giving beans in chili our blessing.

In what may be the single most meaningful advancement in the beans-in-chili-debate's history, last year, the International Chili Society's World Chili Cook-Off included an additional division -- you guessed it -- chili with beans. Look, guys, the International Chili Society said so. So stop telling people that their beans are invalid.
Beans were first added to chili to stretch it further. Beans are cheap and when times are tight, they're an easy way to get nutrition and fill up hungry stomachs. They have the added bonus of tasting ridiculously delicious in chili, and we'll confess that when we think of chili, we think of beans.
 
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I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
I don't make the rules.

I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Yes to the bolded.

Let me put it this way. What if someone doesn't eat meat, and doesn't like chile pepper? Can they just put tofu and tomatoes in a pot of water and call it chile? Of course not. It would be total anarchy.
You do realize you sound like a fool, and that is a terrible analogy, right?

No one is removing any key chili ingredients when they add beans. They are adding beans.

What you are trying to compare is: "If you took a caesar salad, and added chicken, but removed the croutons and caesar dressing, would it be caesar salad?"

It's ridiculous.

 
I serve mine over black beans...so the beans are on the side an optional.
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
I don't make the rules.

I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Yes to the bolded.

Let me put it this way. What if someone doesn't eat meat, and doesn't like chile pepper? Can they just put tofu and tomatoes in a pot of water and call it chile? Of course not. It would be total anarchy.
You do realize you sound like a fool, and that is a terrible analogy, right?

No one is removing any key chili ingredients when they add beans. They are adding beans.

What you are trying to compare is: "If you took a caesar salad, and added chicken, but removed the croutons and caesar dressing, would it be caesar salad?"

It's ridiculous.
I bet psychobillies puts ketchup on his hot dogs.

 
I don't understand the semantic purity argument. We all know that the dish originally did not contain beans. We all know that it generally still does not in Texas. Pretty much everywhere else in the United States, it does. Dishes change. Very few dishes are prepared the same way they were when they were invented. And nobody gets salty when people put cheese or sour cream on chili, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure those were items that the chuck wagon cooks who invented chili didn't have available to them on cattle drives either. I mean, Smails "authentic" chili relies on all kinds of #### that wasn't in the original recipe. You think they were putting beer and Jack Daniels in there?

I enjoy chili both ways, but when I make it, I use beans. Both because most people I make it for prefer it that way, and because buying two lbs of meat and three cans of chili beans is a lot cheaper than buying 5 lbs of meat.
I don't make the rules.

I'm fine eating meat soup with beans. I prefer Chile, but I'll eat both. I'm not sure why everyone wants to change the English language over this. There is no such thing as chile "with beans".
Yes there is. It's Chili with Beans added to it a.k.a. Chili with BeansIs there no such thing as Caesar Salad with Chicken?

Tuna on Rye with Tomato?

Bread with Butter?

Stop being silly.
Totally different. You can put whatever you want on a salad and it's still a salad. Same with a sandwich.
A salad that comes with Chicken on it is a Salad with Chicken

Chili that comes with beans is Chili with Beans

How are those concepts totally different?

I've eaten a lot of Chili that had some beans added to it. How should I describe that? meat soup with beans?

So if I want to put either cilantro, chopped red onion or cheese on top of my chili I need to call it Meat Soup with Chopped Onion on Top of it?

What if I want to drink a beer with my Chili.

Is it now Meat Soup with a Beer on the side?
Yes to the bolded.

Let me put it this way. What if someone doesn't eat meat, and doesn't like chile pepper? Can they just put tofu and tomatoes in a pot of water and call it chile? Of course not. It would be total anarchy.
hmm. Always been #teambeans but this does give me pause.

 
Actually getting hungry. Might have to make Judge's chili today.

I don't add beans to that recipe but I do add cilantro and chopped onion and drink it with beer so I'll be sure to call it:

Meat Soup with Cilantro/Raw Chopped Onion and Beer

 
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Actually getting hungry. Might have to make Judge's chili today.

I don't add beans to that recipe but I do add cilantro and chopped onion and drink it with beer so I'll be sure to call it:

Meat Soup with Cilantro/Raw Chopped Onion and Beer
I'll just start calling everything "FOOD".

 
Actually getting hungry. Might have to make Judge's chili today.

I don't add beans to that recipe but I do add cilantro and chopped onion and drink it with beer so I'll be sure to call it:

Meat Soup with Cilantro/Raw Chopped Onion and Beer
Glad to see you're coming around.

And I don't put ketchup on anything, nor do I spell it catsup.

 
I made a cheeseburger today. But I added pickles.

So now I have to call it a meat patty on bun with cheese and pickles instead of a cheeseburger with pickles.

 
It's like, did god intend for meat and sauce and spices and beans to be joined together and called 'chili', or is it 'chili with beans'? Or is it neither? It's a complicated issue. Best to leave it up to the states.

 
Another unpopular opinion. I sometimes go to the trouble of using chuck roast or brisket for chili, but I rarely like it any better than course ground beef so long as the beef is appropriately fatty (no 90/10 or 93/7 or anything). There are steps that I think are "worth it" like hydrating dried chiles because I don't have access to a great chili powder myself. And there are steps that I don't find make a lot of difference. I also use the cheapest mass market white lager I can find. I find expensive, hoppy beers just add a note I don't enjoy.

 
I made a cheeseburger today. But I added pickles.

So now I have to call it a meat patty on bun with cheese and pickles instead of a cheeseburger with pickles.
Cheerios and Milk today...

Had to go with processed oats pressed into the shape of an O with a side of milk because I wanted to put some sliced bananas on them.

 
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I only add beans when a whole bunch of buddies are coming over and I need volume. Also, I only use Rancho Gordo beans because they are amazing.

 

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