Fifteen minutes after Tim & I arrived at the Fatheree's river house in Bandera, TX on Friday night...
Tiffani: "Next year I am definitely entering my award winning chili in the chili cookoff!"
(Side note: In college some fellow DDD's & I entered the Chi-O Chili Cookoff. We made a lovely vegetarian chili & won 2 years in a row. The third year we burned the chili or something, but we won an award for spirit. You may be thinking...veggie chili? I promise it was so good. Although, I can't prove it to you because the recipe was in one of my college books that I sold back...college kids always need money! What was I thinking by not writing it down?)
Luke: "Does it have beans in it?"
Tiffani: "Um, YES!"
Luke & Tim: "Oh, you can't enter it then. No beans allowed."
Tiffani: "Hahahaha...whatever!"
Luke & Tim: "No really, a real Texas chili does not have beans. Your chili would be disqualified."
Tiffani: "But...whhaat?" (perplexed the rest of the night)
I just found this in an article online.
Most often heard here in Texas is "If you know beans about chili, you know chili ain't got no beans". It is a near hanging offense to serve up chili with beans in it down here in the Lone Star State.
I say again...WHAT? As for me & my house, we will serve chili with beans! BUT, this weekend I made an exception & went along with the no beans rule.
We went to Bandera for the 11th annual 11th Street Cowboy Bar Chili Cookoff. I really served no purpose except for moral support & major people watching (there was also a motorcycle rally...very interesting). We had so much fun! Although our chili did not place, we came out of the weekend with a couple blue ribbons! Again, I had nothing to do with this!
Celeste & her 1st place Bloody Marys
Celeste & her 2nd place Margaritas
Mrs. Fatheree & her 1st place Salsa
Luke with his FABULOUS beans
Tim & his horns...they go everywhere with him!
(Sadly, they did not place either.)
Luke & Celeste turning in the Yummy Chili
Me with my truck driver husband...
I'm sure I just finished eating 100 cookies!
Beans or No Beans...We'll get 'em next year!
9 comments:
Oh, the Chi-O Chili Cookoff days...I will vouch for that veggie chili! And we just got a reminder email about internet use...which means I probably shouldn't be on here now... :)
I did not know this either about Texas chili's veto of beans. I am glad that you and your house will still be serving up some chili with beans anyway!
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Cute post although I'm a no beans in my chili kinda native. ;-)
Go Bili Chili!!! Who doesn't put beans in chili? Not any friend of mine! So sad we didn't keep the recipe... I do remember the "secret ingredient."
Is that a Jon Hart koozie?? Love it!!!
I LOVE the picture of the DDD's winning the Chi-O chili cookoff. I remember that Mandy and I were so proud of you guys. :)
Is that Caroline in that top DDD picture??? I LOVE her! She and I were big buds at Baylor. Had swimming class together which was hilarious! Katie and I want her to do a blog so bad, or join facebook, but she hasn't given in yet!
Ummm... Ross and I had a long discussion about the bean thing. We decided that the people who think that "real" Texans would never put beans in their chili must be from the panhandle or something. We couldn't think of anyone we know who DOESN'T put beans in their chili. Otherwise, it's just greasy meat sauce. ugh.
Love the veggie chili from way back when- Love Bandera (heard they are getting AC this summer!)- and HATE that I have the same big brother at work :(
Maybe one day we'll coordinate Bandera trips...checked out Amber's blog?
Oh boy what fun!! Beans in the chili please!
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