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Texan who loves beans in chili. Without beans, it's just s bowl of meat.
I am curious about this part. So...it's just a bowl of meat. What do you eat with it? I mean, meat alone is not a meal. Or is it, in texas?
This is my issue with Texas chili. When I make chili, I add lots of veggies and beans because I want it to be a well-rounded, healthy, somewhat cheap to make, meal.
Texan who loves beans in chili. Without beans, it's just s bowl of meat.
I am curious about this part. So...it's just a bowl of meat. What do you eat with it? I mean, meat alone is not a meal. Or is it, in texas?
I think in Texas meat alone is an acceptable meal, but chili is typically served with corn bread. I don't think that's a meal, either. I can eat about 4 bites of all-meat chili (max!) and then I want to puke.
In my world chili always has a tomato base and contains beans. In all my years of living and travels I've never encountered it any other way, and legit had no idea that there was any other way to make it.
I lived in south Texas for more than 7 years and never came across chili without a tomato base or without beans except in cans on the shelf.
Post by tacosforlife on Feb 3, 2015 10:47:57 GMT -5
I think the tomato issue is actually much less of a deal than the bean issue. Lots of people do use some sort of toamto (paste, sauce, or diced).
But I don't see how adding beans would make chili more of a meal thab not. Chili is eaten with cheese and maybe onions or sour cream and either cornbread or Fritos. What's not a meal about that? It doesn't strike me as any different than a burger and fries. It's unhealthy, veggie-less meat and starch.
I think the tomato issue is actually much less of a deal than the bean issue. Lots of people do use some sort of toamto (paste, sauce, or diced).
But I don't see how adding beans would make chili more of a meal thab not. Chili is eaten with cheese and maybe onions or sour cream and either cornbread or Fritos. What's not a meal about that? It doesn't strike me as any different than a burger and fries. It's unhealthy, veggie-less meat and starch.
Beans provide a pretty decent boost of fiber, B vitamins, and minerals. it's not like adding white pasta or something nutritionally.
But the answer of "cornbread and/or fritos" does answer my question of how this is a meal.
In my world chili always has a tomato base and contains beans. In all my years of living and travels I've never encountered it any other way, and legit had no idea that there was any other way to make it.
I lived in south Texas for more than 7 years and never came across chili without a tomato base or without beans except in cans on the shelf.
I guess I was in the wrong part of Texas.
After this thread, I'm thinking maybe more influence from Mexico than cowboys out on the range. Plus, we're poor; beans make it go further!
I know we've reached the point where we've decided certain foods are starches and starches have no nutritional value but uhm, that's not true. Sure, many items we consider veggies or used to are actually starches but potatoes aren't the same as cornbread. Neither is it the same as pasta.
Cornbread plus spicy meat is not a meal even if you do sprinkle cheese and a dollop of sour cream on that bitch.
Post by downtoearth on Feb 3, 2015 11:03:38 GMT -5
I love putting veggies (zucchini, peppers, onions, squash) in my chili along with beans (black, kidney, and white) and then canned pumpkin and lots of spice (smoked paprika, chili powder, cayenne, etc.). It's so good.