One time on Usenet, Wayne Boatwright > said:
> On Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:31:18p, Sqwertz told us...
>
> > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:23:15 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:12:46p, Sqwertz told us...
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:10:02 -0600, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> When I make chili con carne,...
> >>>
> >>> Chile CON CARNE? What is this, 1950?
> >>
> >> Is there something wrong with 1950? I thuoght it was a very good year.
> >
> > I'm thinking it was more 60's and 70's now. Nowadays the terms
> > a Chili, Chili W/Beans, and Vegetarian Chili.
> >
> > "Chili con Carne" always reminds me of the 'Alice' episode where
> > Art Carney appears as Vera's cousin to promote Mel's chili.
> > I haven't seen the phrase actually used in practice for a decade
> > or three. We all know chili has meat! Always did.
> >
> > This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night, yaknow.
> >
> > -sw
>
> No, you can definitely include the 1950s in there. I have cookbooks from
> the period, as well as a couple of handwritten recipes and clippings from
> the same time that are call it Chili Con Carne. The earliest one, a recipe
> card from a friend of my mother's was from 1949.

Here's an eBay image from a 1951 advertisement:

http://auctionpix.us/sherblay/pics/21290a.jpg

I'm not sure why I'm up so late looking at this stuff.

> Don't lose too much sleep over it, Steve. :-)
>

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Jani in WA