Hey Georgia, Florida . . . .

[WDH]

DanG, get ready for the weeds in the garden ;D.

[DanG]

Already got those, right down the row where the soaker hoses are.  The middles have been looking good, though. : :D :D

[TexasTimbers]

Dubya, I hope y'all have your raincoats and rowboats handy. Y'all have a 20% chance of thunderboomers Thursday!

O'l DanG might be out dancin in the rain as we speak. Chattahoochie (love that name fer a town) has a 30% all day today. 8)

[WDH]

I came into East Texas today.  Well, you guessed it, raining again :-\.  Thunder is booming even as I post .

[TexasTimbers]

Shucks I forgot you were coming west. I was talking about your home20 in Perry. You have a 120% chance there in Texas Ranger Territory.

[WDH]

The Texas Ranger Territory has been re-named to Wet Texas.  I hope to see the old codger tomorrow, and I will blame it all on him :.

[TexasTimbers]

You'll do well to mention that he hasn't treated you to proper East Texas hospitality lest he cooks you up a big mess O' chili. From scratch. No kits.

I know that's changing the subject a bit but, not really. You boys from Georgia deserve the best. Y'all were " . . . . stalwarts in '62 but '63  espeshuly . . . "

You tell him if he don't know how then to quit callin hisself a Texan and let a real Native Texan such as myself do the honor. ;D

[WDH]

Looks like I might be eatin' some good chili if this keeps up ;D.

[Texas Ranger]

You eat that stuff they call chilli up in south Oklahoma and you'll go away hungry.  Need to have some that puts fire in your belly. 8) ;D  Good ol' fashioned Texas red.

[TexasTimbers]

I prefer a good red too. I bet you Easterners put beans in it. That ain't chili that's a casserole. I have even heard of people putting tomato products in their "Chili". That's a sin right there.

[TexasTimbers]

Hey Dubya how ya making out in the East Texas Swamplands? Just lookin at the radar looks like y'all are gettin hammered.

[Raider Bill]

Man I hate to ask this but what DO YOU Texans put in it?

I prefer a good red too. I bet you Easterners put beans in it. That ain't chili that's a casserole. I have even heard of people putting tomato products in their "Chili". That's a sin right there.

[TexasTimbers]

Man I hate to ask this but what DO YOU Texans put in it?

Only the stuff that's supposed to be in there. Base, meat, and seasoning. Anything else makes it non-chili. Onions can barely slide by but that's it and they must be minced. Not sliced and no big chunks of it.

[Raider Bill]

What's the base? I suppose seasoning is the chili?

[TexasTimbers]

You don't hafta add a base necessarily. Most real chili's make their own by the meat drain off or just adding water. I use one recipe that uses suet. It's really good. My late grandma's (dad's side) chili which tastes better than any i have ever eat, was passed to her from her pappy. He was a trailman and I think was trail boss eventually. He probably got the recipe from the trail cook who could have easily been Mexican or Black.

When you have Texans who have had a chili recipe in the family for generations you understand the secrecy. My mom only gave it to me when I was in my thirties and had proved myself trustworhty and wouldn't tell it. ;D

It is a "red" chili like which TR refers and in fact I need to get some in my belly think I'll whip up a batch this weekend. All this rain makes it seem like wintertime.

We successfully turned another non-food related thread into food. Of course everything is food related in the end.

[beenthere]

Sorry kevjay.  Chili 'roun here has tomato sauce/paste in it, beef, and beans, along with seasoning. Not sayin your Texas tomatoless chili isn't good eatin.......... : :

[Raider Bill]

yepper, meat, beans, tomato's and whatever else is lurking in the fridge that needs to be used. Mines more of a stew. Throw in some saltines!
Actually, not to make your ancestors do fin pivots in their graves but I also like to dump a couple spoonfuls on top of pasta noodles! ;D 8)
Why no beans? Figured all those western movies I've watched all centered around beans and biscuts, remember Blazing saddles?

[TexasTimbers]

I am well aware of the state of confusion which exists in the realm of chili and chili casserole fellas.

[Raider Bill]

Just trying to get this thing figured out. You got to admit our way tastes pretty DanG Good whatever it's called over there.
Gotta have beans Brother.

[TexasTimbers]

No one likes a good bowl of beans and ham hocks better than me. And I like a bowl of Grandma's chili even better. But I don't like to put them in the same bowl. It just don't make no sense to me. It takes away from the chili. It's like puttin a steak sauce on a good steak. It ruins it. If you ever have a good bowl of my Grandma's chili you won't want to put no DanGed beans in it.
If I was having to eat that acidic tomato-ee gunk I would want beans in it too so I understand your desire to mask the putrid taste completely brutha. ;) Just like reachin for the A1 to help out a piece of cheap meat. Cheap meat ain't good and good meat ain't cheap. Same goes for chili. Good chili don't need no beans and beans don't make bad chili, good chili.

You got to admit our way tastes pretty DanG Good whatever it's called over there.

Nope I just can't admit that because it is not true for me. I have had it the way you describe and I really don't care for it. That doesn't mean my chili is better than your chili nosireebob. I grew up eatin it this way. You grew up eatin it that way.
I can't for the life of me figger out how them NCers call that vinergary stuff they make "Barbeque" cause it sure ain't barbecue where I come from. 

Real Barbeque has got to have been cooked or smoked (preferably in an offset firebox cooker) and basted or wrapped in foil in some kind of sauce. Now that right there is where your tomato-ee products can come in real handy, but leave it out of my chili pretty please.  ;)

Now these are my subjective observations and preferences they sure as heck don't mean I am right and you are wrong.

[WDH]

Hey Dubya how ya making out in the East Texas Swamplands? Just lookin at the radar looks like y'all are gettin hammered.

Kevjay, well, I had a fine breakfast with the Texas Ranger.  Then paid a short visit to the philosophical Tcsmpsi where we discussed weighty matters.  Then, with the best intentions of mice and men, I struck out for the wet, hot, humid, tick infested, snake infested, spider infested, and much muddy East Texas thickets.  But alas, a saving phone call arrived in the nick of time with a bureaucratical nightmare that needed corporate attention and my able assistance.  Spent most of the day at the computer problem solving.  Saved from the heat, rain, heat, and rain.  In that order ;D.

Oh well, tomorrow is another day :-\.

[Texas Ranger]

Talking about bar-b-que, friend of mine moved to the Philippians where he picked up a new (young) wife.  Being bored, he opened up  a bar-b-que stand, pork on a stick with real Texas sauce.  Sold the thing for about 8 cents each he said, made a killing, them folks loved that old fashioned Texas taste,  till the meat man he bought his meat from saw how much money he was making, and doubled the price of his pork.  Put him out of business, so, the point being, good bar-b-que, like a good steak, costs, and sometimes you just cannot make ends meet.  Now for chili?  I like it all, cept for the really hot stuff, leave that to folks with a Hispanic background.

[Raider Bill]

Rub and smoke your meat right and you shouldn't need sauce. Same goes with steak.

[TexasTimbers]

I can't handle it too hot either. When it gets so hot it don't taste anymore I don't get the appeal of that. I ate a pepper so hot one time I thought for real I was gonna die. My wife just nearly called an ambulance. I had some kind of reaction to it. Since then, the hottest thing I will eat is horseradish or wusabi.

[tcsmpsi]

Rub and smoke your meat right and you shouldn't need sauce. Same goes with steak.

It's not a matter of need.  One doesn't need gravy on mashed potatoes.   One doesn't need butter on bread. 

Some sauce is just plumb good, and the meat serves only as a carrier.   :D