Let's settle this right now, once and for all. Chili, with beans or without beans?

[ohiosmith]

I say with.

[Divameow77]

1. Without!

I made a mean no-bean chili just yesterday. I just really don't like beans...

[kentauros]

2. Without.

And you know what? It's probably a North/South fight, too ;)

[tk2kewl]

3. Absolutely with beans.

[ohiosmith]

6. Two fer beans.

:toast:

[Eyerish]

4. I prefer with beans....

[ohiosmith]

8. Three fer beans.

:toast:

[charlie and algernon]

5. with beans!

:9

[hobbit709]

7. No beans.

worse yet is that yankee chili with beans on spaghetti.

[ohiosmith]

9. Three fer no.

:hi:

[AngryAmish]

10. Without. Always.

[Luciferous]

11. With beans.

[dawg]

12. Wtih beans.

Without is just something to put on a hotdog.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Without.

Just not a cooked bean fan at all.

[Phentex]

28. This is actually five...

I voted with but I want a fair count!

[trof]

48. "Just not a cooked bean fan at all." Raw beans?

yuck

[HughBeaumont]

51. Raw green beans are great. But only those.

The kind you put in Chili . . . not so much. :puke:

[RebelOne]

14. Beans and no meat. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

22. Yep. Even though it's probably not technically chili then.

[RebelOne]

60. There are plenty of meatless chili recipes. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

88. Right, but I was told on DU awhile ago that chili by definition has meat.

I don't eat it w/ meat, but if it doesn't have meat it's called something else -- bean stew or something. It's just semantics, though.

[RebelOne]

98. It is normally called chili con carne, which means

chili with meat. So leave out the meat and it is just plain old chili.

[Avalux]

23. I vote for beans and no meat! n/t

[demmiblue]

29. This!

:D

[ohiosmith]

15. 7 fer.

:toast:

[ohiosmith]

16. 5 no.

:P

[Angry Dragon]

17. Beans

[Phentex]

18. With.

Otherwise, it's just stew.

[SCantiGOP]

19. with

otherwise, it's just spaghetti sauce.
on edit: sorry, didn't mean to sputter, puter messed up

[fizzgig]

44. my thoughts exactly

[Skittles]

55. WRONG

I LOVE chili with no beans but I cannot STAND spaghetti or its sauce - they are nowhere NEAR the same

[SCantiGOP]

20. with

otherwise, it's just spaghetti sauce.

[SCantiGOP]

21. with

otherwise, it's just spaghetti sauce.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. NO beans!

[ohiosmith]

27. Six no.

:P

[Arkansas Granny]

25. With beans! I know that the chili purists say never put beans in chili, but

I say to eat it the way you like it.

[ohiosmith]

26. That makes 15 fer.

:toast:

[Ron Green]

30. Chili con carne is made with meat and spices only.

You can have your beans on the side.

[ohiosmith]

31. I make chili con carne y frijoles.

:toast:

[ohiosmith]

32. Makes seven no.

:P

[Lucinda]

33. I'm a chili ho so I will happily go both ways.

I prefer "with" though

[ohiosmith]

34. Best answer.

:rofl:

[Angry Dragon]

35. is that known as bi-chili??

[ohiosmith]

36. Hahahaha!

:rofl:

[Lucinda]

37. Probably more Omni - but bi-chili does work!

:)

[yankeepants]

38. Yes Beans but not Red Kidney beans

black beans
white kidneys
navy beans etc. . .

there are all kinds of beans that add so much flavor and not the bulk of the gigantic red kidney bean.

[ceile]

40. Really?

I've only ever made it with kidney beans. I do like navy beans but I use them in "white" chili.

[yankeepants]

42. I use 5 or 6 different types of beans

It's delicious and very pretty.

[dixiegrrrrl]

64. With pinto beans......

and eaten with soft corn tortillas!
or
cornbread.

After learning how to cook chili with meat and pinto beans, I could never ever go back to kidney beans again.

[ceile]

39. With.

Without it's meat stew.

[ohiosmith]

41. Seventeen fer.

:toast:

[Old Troop]

43. Beans!!

[trof]

45. Texas? Beanless. Alabama? BEANS!

Without beans it a hot dog topping.
:-)

[bigwillq]

46. With (nt)

[trof]

47. Shoulda been a poll.

:-)

[ohiosmith]

49. Good idea: pirogies with/without beans?

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

50. there is chili

and then there is chili with beans.

[Major Nikon]

52. If it has beens in it, it's not chili con carne

There are certain circles in Texas where putting beans in chili con carne will get you the federal reserve chairman treatment.

That being said, I like beans in my chili, and specifically either red beans or black beans. And no kidney beans aren't red beans even though they happen to be red.

[GoCubsGo]

53. No beans.

Unless it's vegetarian chili.

[Skittles]

54. NO BEANS!!!!!!!!

I WILL KICK OHIOSMITH CHILI BEAN ASS

[Tikki]

56. Without....

Ranch beans with beans.....


Tikki

[pitohui]

57. i say with

i'll eat chili either way but i have a personal liking for beans

[7wo7rees]

58. Let's go to the tale o' the tape.

Texas Chili is made with no beans. The Terlingua Chili Cookoff won't even allow an entry with beans. So there's the Southern vote.
Skyline Chili, in Cincinnati, "the chili capitol of the world," doesn't use beans. There's the Northern vote.

That's 50 states, 50 votes, for no beans.

Beans in chili makes a meaty bean soup, not chili. Hormel and your school cafeteria do not a panel of experts make.

Case closed. Q.E.D. Ipso facto, Bubba. Accept no farbs.

(BTW, bean soup is terrific. No Beano needed.)

[ohiosmith]

62. Chili five way has beans.

Cheese Coney: Skyline's classic Cheese Coney is a specially-made hot dog in a steamed bun, with mustard, covered with our original, secret-recipe chili, diced onions and a mound of shredded cheddar cheese.

Regular Coney (without cheese): Our specially-made hot dog in a steamed bun, with mustard, covered with our original, secret-recipe chili and diced onions.

Chili Cheese Sandwich: A steamed bun with shredded cheddar cheese, our original, secret-recipe chili, diced onions, mustard and topped with more shredded cheddar cheese.

Regular Chili Sandwich (without cheese): A steamed bun with our original, secret-recipe chili, diced onions and mustard.

3-Way Chili: Our signature dish...steaming spaghetti, covered with our original, secret-recipe chili and topped with a mound of shredded cheddar cheese.

4-Way Chili: A 3-Way with diced onions or red beans.

5-Way Chili: A 3-Way with diced onions and red beans.

Make any Way vegetarian by substituting Black Beans
and Rice for Chili.

Chili Spaghetti: Steaming spaghetti covered with our original, secret-recipe chili. With diced onions or red beans

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[7wo7rees]

72. Gotta add beans to "Chili" before you can have a queer "five-way".

Beans added to chili. Think about that.

[Major Nikon]

75. Be that as it may...

The self-proclaimed "chili capital of the world" (perhaps in quantity but certainly not quality) still does the bean thing, and really they may as well because they put so much other crap in their chili the dish has been bastardized beyond all recognition anyway. Once you start putting chocolate in your chili, all bets are off.

Really I never understood the whole bean, no-bean argument anyway. The earliest versions of the dish would have certainly contained beans from time to time as they were very commonly used as a meat substitute. Yes beans are verboten in Texas chili con carne cookoffs, but I'm not sure you can say that's real Texas chili either. I've seen lots of Texas recipes for chili con carne dating back over 100 years and many, if not most, of them called for beans. While yes, that would technically make it chile con carne y frijoles, it's still a pretty deep part of Texas tradition.

[hunter]

59. Depends how much road kill you got and how many people you have to feed.

If it's just a rattlesnake or a pigeon, you have to add beans so everyone gets enough to eat.

If it's a cow or a deer or an alligator too big to throw in your trunk, you probably don't need beans.

Personally, I don't think it's real chili if it's made from animal parts bought in a supermarket. Real chili is made from meat you found, meat someone gave you, or meat from animals you killed yourself.

90% of the chili I eat is vegetarian, with beans. My meat chili, never the same recipe twice, is best left a mystery.

[applegrove]

61. With. More important grated cheddar cheese or sour cream as a garnish?

[Lucian]

63. Without.

Beans are :puke:.

[Taverner]

65. Either/Or

The only Chili I don't like is the Midwestern/Ohio Style crap

[cherokeeprogressive]

66. Con!

[rurallib]

67. beans, beans, beans.

[ohiosmith]

69. 22 fer.

:toast:

[we can do it]

68. Without

[ohiosmith]

70. 12 no.

:P

[CherokeeDem]

71. With!!!

Actually love vegetarian chili with all beans as much as the meat kind....

[JI7]

73. how about vegetarian chili ?

[ohiosmith]

74. I make a mean one. All for it.

:toast:

[JI7]

81. recipe ?

[Major Nikon]

76. I'd rather put roadkill in my chili than tofu

Just sayin'

[JI7]

82. none of the vegetarian chili i have tried had tofu in it

[emilyg]

77. With!!!!

Now I want some.

[Kablooie]

78. Oh lord, ya gotta have beans. How else ya gonna finish with a nice, fragrant toot?

[texanwitch]

79. No beans.

If you want beans in chili just make a pot of pinto beans to begin with.

[TreasonousBastard]

80. Without-- it's chili con carne, not chili con farte. But...

what ever you got-- if it tastes good, it is good.

[ohiosmith]

86. 13 no.

:P

[Bake]

83. With, of course!

What good is it if you can't blow out a good chili fart?

:hi:

Bake

[HopeHoops]

84. With beans, without meat.

[ohiosmith]

85. 27 fer.

:toast:

[OriginalGeek]

87. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO beans

!

But if you simply must, as has already been said, pinto and pinto beans only.


I'm not tryna eat spicy bean soup. I want chili.


And yes. that blue star to the left is for Dallas, as in Texas. Where chili was perfected.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

89. Beans, beans, the musical fruit!

Without beans, it's good for ladling on a hot dog.

If I want a bowl of chili, I want beans!

hmmm, I just realized I'm hungry ...

:hi:

[petronius]

90. Either way, if it's well-made. I'm not one to pass up a bowl of tasty anything over

some semantic turf way. In fact, the more others at the table argue, the more there is for me to eat... :9

[hifiguy]

91. No beans,

I will eat chili with beans, but I have never cooked it with beans.

[ohiosmith]

92. 15 no. 27 fer.

:toast:

[Rowdyboy]

93. No beans

[astral]

94. WITH! It's the meat that is optional.

[ohiosmith]

95. 28 fer. 16 no.

:toast:

[sinkingfeeling]

96. With.

[Dogtown]

97. A more appropriate query:

?Con carne o sin carne?

If you leave the meat out(as I always do), you better have beans, lest you end up with soupy chili sauce.

Therefore, beans, or you don't have anything but corn-chip dip.

[ohiosmith]

99. 29 fer. 17 no.

:toast:

[progressivejazz]

100. NO BEANS!

Serve beans on the side for those who want them.

[ohiosmith]

101. I add them after cooking the other ingredients about 12 hours prior to serving.

That way the absorb the flavor of the chili.