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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:55 am
Well, somehow I lost a post. Baby, I apologise if I sounded like a jerk, I thought you were joking. I always just use white bread but I'd think you could use any bread at all. Hmm, now that I think about it I bet french bread would really bring it up a notch or two. Deb, sounds like we DO have similar cooking styles. Unless a recipe is just exceptional I usually fiddle with it. Plus, my husband is generally not a very adventurous eater so my first step in any recipe is to ask myself... will he eat it? If the answer is probably not the next question is, can I change it up some so he will?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 8:03 am
Our SOS was made on white bread, toasted. And I agree with Twinkie...chili MUST have beans! I think I've seen that in Texas, chili is made with beef but not ground beef (hamburger) like I use. And I don't believe they use beans, either. Must be the recipes are regional.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:06 am
LOL at your answers! Yes, I was joking, SG But I really haven't heard of chili without beans. I thought it was either chili or chili con carne, but then I'm a yankee...
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:18 pm
Wrong..wrong...wrong...no beans in chili! LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:43 pm
Well then what the heck do you DO with beans? I think it proves that we Yankees won the war because we were gas powered!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:02 pm
ROFL!!! they are sides or soups, NOT chili!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:04 pm
It ain't chili if it ain't got beans!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:06 pm
Made Ina Garten's lentil and sausage soup - it makes a HUGE pot, though, so now I have it for lunch for the rest of the week AND have some in the freezer. Delicious, as is her usual (I think it was someone here who recommended it, but I'm too lazy to go back through the archives! )
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:19 pm
Oh Tex, you're just a crazyhead 
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:42 pm
I always put beans in homemade chili. However, the only canned chili I buy is Wolf brand no beans (for chili dogs & frito pies). Go figure! Tonight I'm making taco meat. We're having soft tacos, spanish rice, & refried beans.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:57 pm
Texasdeb, I am rescinding your citizenship papers! LOL
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:02 pm
Annie, it may be a good thing I never got my papers. If I am not putting beans in chili, you will find brown rice mixed in.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:19 pm
acccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!! no beans!!!!

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:02 pm
To all concerned - from someone who has been all over the place - as nearly as I can tell, no beans in chili is strictly a Texas thang, but they get real hot about it. I had never heard of it before I moved to Texas (1987-1995), but I learned quick enough that was the ironclad rule. I now mostly spend winters in Texas. Oh yeah, and to answer what you do with the beans - well, yes, they are a side dish, like pinto beans or charro beans, both of which are sort of soup-ish, but sort of also too thick to be soup. Oh hell, just come down here, go to a BBQ joint, and order up a side of beans. They are actually quite delicious. I loved mine so much a couple weeks ago that I had a second cup (they are like a free appetizer while you are waiting for your order to arrive) and farted all the way home.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:13 pm
I always put beans in my homemade chili, don't pay too much attention when I buy a can though. And speaking of beans, made a big crockpot full of them tonight so that's what we had for dinner. Had quite a bit left over, tomorrow will be something mexican, either burritos, taco salad or something.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:43 am
I had never heard of it before I moved to Texas (1987-1995), but I learned quick enough that was the ironclad rule. pretty much! LOL i make a pot of beans and have it with cornbread all the time. pintos with cheese is yummy!
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Pinto beans and cornbread is fine dining in my book. Not feeling well at all so we are hving frozen egg rolls. I may even make everyone 'nuke their own.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Got a roast in the crock pot. Hope it turns out.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:11 pm
tossed salad, meatloaf, rice and lima beans.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:25 pm
Wow, I missed all the debating when I posted a couple of days ago that I was making chili (without beans). And no beans is not just limited to Texas. We have a huge Chili Appreciation Society cook-off with over 100 teams every year. Beans and fillers are banned being put in chili that is submitted for competition. And the winner of this competition goes on to compete on a state level and then to the Nationals. According to the Chili Appreciation Society, "Real chili doesn't have beans."
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:25 pm
Pork Chops and Applesauce! 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:02 pm
We had DS's birthday dinner a bit early this week since he's got a huge concert the night of his birthday (3 HS jazz bands and a professional jazz band - last year it was 3 hours long!). Dinner - I grilled a 2 lb. bone-in sirloin steak and made green bean casserole. (His birthday night will probably be takeout pizza.)
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:02 pm
So there!!!!! LOL
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:03 pm

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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:08 pm
According to the Goddessatlaw Raised on Her Grandmother's Prize-winning Chili Society, real chili MUST have beans - and I'm talking the dark red 88's, not the light red 44's. And if you're making it right, you start with kidney suet. A lot of it.
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