Originally Posted by
leob1
Chili needs beans just like brownies need nuts. Brownies with out nuts is just chocolate cake. Chili with out beans is just meat sauce.
Them's fightin' words in Texas.
After living there 5 years, I decided to leave in search of beans.
BTW -- and here, I hope I'm deeply insulting someone from Cincinnati -- there is probably no dish on earth as disgusting as that swill they call chili in Cincinnati. Being a life-long fan of chili, I was eager to try Cincinnati 3-way chili on my first trip there some years ago. My dad warned against it. My uncle warned against it. Still, I went ahead, and was shocked. I don't know what this stuff really is, but I think they named it "chili" just to fool tourists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_chili