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Rant Yes, Chili does has beans.

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whm1974 said:
Pasta doesn't belong in Chili at all. Granted I do enjoy Chili Mac, but I still don't consider that to be True Chili.
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It's not "in" chili. Think of it as a garnish...in this system, the chili is probably the garnish? You layer it on the bed of pasta. adding cheese and raw onions are one of each ways ....I'm not sure what 5-way chili is. spaghetti-chili-cheese-onions.....something

Anyway, it's how some people do it. Good luck angrily telling them that they are wrong for reasons.
 
nakedfrog said:
It's funny that the guy claiming that chili can have beans is complaining about pasta in chili.
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That because the first Chili did had beans in the stew, and likely hominy as well. Chili is a stew that predates Texas since it is a Native American dish that that Texas adopted as their own as poor mans' meal.
 
whm1974 said:
That because the first Chili did had beans in the stew, and likely hominy as well. Chili is a stew that predates Texas since it is a Native American dish that that Texas adopted as their own as poor mans' meal.
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Well then, real Italian food has no tomatoes and no pasta by your standards. You are hereby never allowed to eat "fake" Italian food again.
 
nakedfrog said:
That's a weird way of spelling Chinese.
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Not necessarily Chinese, but definitely somewhere in Asia. The idea that Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy from China is pure myth. It had been popular in parts of Italy for a long time before Marco Polo was around. But noodles as we know them today existed in parts of Asia at least 1000 years before that. We just don't know which part of Asia had them first.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Yes you are correct, I meant that style.

Being honest occasionally I’ll have some hormel ideally Turkey beanless with some spiral pasta
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When I was 22 YO, a favorite meal was heated Hormel beanless (they didn't have turkey then, it was with beef, they didn't have spicy either, there was just w/ beans and w/out beans, IIRC) poured over a big handful of super-crispy chow mein noodles!
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
Not necessarily Chinese, but definitely somewhere in Asia. The idea that Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy from China is pure myth. It had been popular in parts of Italy for a long time before Marco Polo was around. But noodles as we know them today existed in parts of Asia at least 1000 years before that. We just don't know which part of Asia had them first.
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also, Marco Polo is a myth....he actually never existed. He's just the fictional narrator in a travel book, the most popular version of the most popular genre of written entertainment in the day, for which there were dozens of such fictional characters and identical books.
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
I use black beans in most of my Mexican or Tex-Mex foods that have beans. Occasionally sometimes pink beans will do in a pinch. Never dark red kidney beans.
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I make red beans and rice (got on a kick a few weeks ago... picked up on it in NOLA a couple years ago). TBH I think it's just as good with pinto beans as red beans, at least the way I make it.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
I’m good with or without beans, however I need to clarify
If it is chili with something else like corn chip beans or no beans works
If it is the sacrilegious Chicago style with some pasta, no beans
If its a straight up bowl of chili ideally there should be at least some beans
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zinfamous said:
It's not "in" chili. Think of it as a garnish...in this system, the chili is probably the garnish? You layer it on the bed of pasta. adding cheese and raw onions are one of each ways ....I'm not sure what 5-way chili is. spaghetti-chili-cheese-onions.....something

Anyway, it's how some people do it. Good luck angrily telling them that they are wrong for reasons.
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beans. the 4th way is either onions or beans, and the 5th way is the one that wasn't the 4th way.
 
Muse said:
I make red beans and rice (got on a kick a few weeks ago... picked up on it in NOLA a couple years ago). TBH I think it's just as good with pinto beans as red beans, at least the way I make it.
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...and it's even better with black beans. I just replace all beans with black beans (though i also like navy/white beans, too)
 
Muse said:
When I was 22 YO, a favorite meal was heated Hormel beanless (they didn't have turkey then, it was with beef, they didn't have spicy either, there was just w/ beans and w/out beans, IIRC) poured over a big handful of super-crispy chow mein noodles!
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As I said and will keep saying, Chili that does not contain chilies in any form is not Chili. And Chili w/o beans isn't Chili either, it is a meat sauce only.
 
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