On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 1:21:28 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
> A Moose in Love wrote:
> ...
> > I often wonder why the Texas chili 'experts' often say that chili should not have beans in it. I love beans in my chili, not only to stretch the meat, but I think the addition of beans makes a better chili.
>
> to me it depends upon the traditions as i know that the
> New Mexican style chilis i am familiar with have no beans
> in them (the red and the green).
>
> i like them all.
>
> i call the chili that has beans in it the Tex-Mex
> version.
>
>
> songbird

A good quote I've heard: 'If you put beans in your chili, then you don't know beans about chili'. Not true in my opinion, but I got a good chuckle out of it.