Chili con Carne: The National Dish of Texas


	Chili con Carne: The National Dish of Texas

boniface

4-9-2009 7:44 PM

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boniface says:

We don't need no stinking beans or tomatoes in our chili!

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4-26-2009 7:41 PM

Jorjor

Tobe Hooper prefers Chile con Hombre.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7d24e29b-8e5e-4801-af3d-640d1deb4a99/FB1FBA80-B7C4-41F4-B185-3DFDA4C19C8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm" href="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.texasescapes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm"><FONT size="5" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><B><FONT color="#ff6600">C</FONT></B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><DIV>hili 
con carne is the national dish of <A href="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/../default.htm">Texas</A>. It was invented 
in Texas by Texas natives-literally-and it's made right only in Texas.</DIV></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm">Chili was born in <A href="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/../SanAntonioTx/SanAntonioTx.htm">San Antonio</A> in 
the mid-18th Century. Christianized Indians at the missions and private soldiers 
at <I>Presidio San Antonio de Bejár</I> didn't get the best cuts of meat.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm">The solution was to 
stew the meat with spices until it was tenderized and tasted only of the spices</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm">Chili, as it is called today is 
properly <I>chiles con carne</I>-peppers with meat. Notice there is no mention 
of frijoles-beans here, nor of spaghetti, nor of macaroni, nor of any of the many 
things outsiders have added to chili. A proper bowl of chili is meat and the spices 
necessary to turn it into chili, nothing more.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.texasescapes.com/img/A5F1F7B6-821B-4D24-A646-688C3E5D930D" alt="San Antonio Texas chili stand, old post card" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/National-Dish-of-Texas-Chili-Con-Carne-Recipe.htm">The first commercial 
bowls of chili ever sold were sold on the streets of downtown <A href="http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/../SanAntonioTx/SanAntonioTx.htm">San 
Antonio</A>, beginning in the early 1880s. San Antonio's Chili Queens were a fixture 
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