/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19846709
> no beans

Not chili.

>>19035230
>These styles of chili don't have beans and usually no tomato product.

Then it is NOT chili.

>>18098415
>>18098710

Chili is an ancient Mesoamerican BEAN stew. The primary ingredients are tomatoes, chili peppers and BEANS, meat is in fact optional.

"Chili" without beans is simply not chili.

>>16099608
> It's generally accepted in North America that "chili" is synonymous with "chili con carne."

The term "chili con carne" was concocted by White people hundreds of years after real chili (with beans) had long been a staple of food of native Mesoamericans.

>>16103583
> then that means that meat was never apart of the original recipe hence 'con carne' part?!

Meat was optional and poor Mesoamericans would only include it if they could get some but tomatoes, chili peppers and beans were always a part of the recipe.

>>15253222
>"authentic" chili with no. Beans

Chili is an ancient Mesoamerican tomato, chili pepper and BEAN stew that may or may NOT contain meat.

If it doesn’t have beans, it’s NOT chili.

>>14912169
> Should chili have beans in it?

Yes.

Chili is an ancient Mesoamerican tomato, chili pepper and BEAN stew that in fact can have meat or not (though it almost always did) but it _always absolutely without question_ has beans.