"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>>>>> Do you consider Oregon part of the PNW? I saw chili with rice and
>>>>> chili
>>>>> with macaroni countless times when I lived in Corvallis.
>>>>
>>>> Really? At a restaurant? I've never seen it.
>>>
>>> You might never have *noticed* it, but I'd bet that well over half the
>>> chili-serving restaurants in Washington offer one of those options. Many
>>> of them might also offer the additional options of cornbread or
>>> tortillas.
>>
>> Not in this area. I love chili. Not too many places serve it.
>> Sometimes
>> it comes with a muffin or roll. Cornbread is not all that common here.
>> I
>> have never seen it with tortillas.
>
> *shrug* Maybe Oregon is just more cosmopolitan than whatever micro-niche
> you mean by "this area." I had no difficulty finding chili in restaurants
> there, and nearly all of them offered either rice or macaroni to accompany
> it.

I live in Bothell, WA. That's a suburb of Seattle. I have eaten in Oregon
many times and have never seen either of those things as an accompaniment
for chili.