GAC06 said:

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Dan_the_Enchanter said:

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You can put beans with chili. It just becomes chili bean soup. Which is also fine.

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No, it's called chili. Chili without beans is called suboptimal chili

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I'm sorry your family was poor.

If you get right down to it if beans don't go in chili neither should onions .......should be just meat, chiles/powders ,
and water

Do y'all eat with a spoon or Fritos scoops?

The Milkman said:

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Do y'all eat with a spoon or Fritos scoops?

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Both.

I would put "gumbo guy" above "kolache guy".

Chili is chili, it has no beans, no tomato products, no discernible onion or garlic chunks, just meat and chili sauce. It's delicious to use as a condiment, add other things to, enjoy on its own, but once you add other stuff to it, it becomes other dishes.

Chili + Beans = Chilibeans
Chili + Fritos = Frito Pie
Chili + Tamales = Christmas Eve

I don't see what's so hard about this concept. I enjoy some beans in chili, it's just not pure chili at that point. I understand why people add beans that's great. My mom usually had us crumble up crackers in our bowl to make it go further.

My mom was born in Liberty, he family moved around but spend time in SE Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi as well as a few other places. I can still remember growing up mom making chili with a pot of rice on the side. She does it this way less often now, but it's for sure a good memory for me!

Bruce Almighty said:

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In order of most annoying:

1. Kolache dork
2. Gumbo dork
3. Chili dork
4. Fajita dork

The fajita one I at least understand the argument, but I also understand that words can have multiple meanings.

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You don't understand the kolache one? It's a word for a specific item and some people in this region started using it to identify something completely different. It's like if Nebraskans started calling hot dogs "tacos."

Back to the point: Pro Beans in Chili.

You could make the argument that a hot dog is a gringo taco

But what if it's wrapped in bacon and served with salsa?

GAC06 said:

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But what if it's wrapped in bacon and served with salsa?

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Then you got a meal

CDub06 said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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In order of most annoying:

1. Kolache dork
2. Gumbo dork
3. Chili dork
4. Fajita dork

The fajita one I at least understand the argument, but I also understand that words can have multiple meanings.

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You don't understand the kolache one? It's a word for a specific item and some people in this region started using it to identify something completely different. It's like if Nebraskans started calling hot dogs "tacos."

Back to the point: Pro Beans in Chili.

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Totally incorrect, but go on believing that nonsense if it makes you feel good

Bruce Almighty said:

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CDub06 said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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In order of most annoying:

1. Kolache dork
2. Gumbo dork
3. Chili dork
4. Fajita dork

The fajita one I at least understand the argument, but I also understand that words can have multiple meanings.

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You don't understand the kolache one? It's a word for a specific item and some people in this region started using it to identify something completely different. It's like if Nebraskans started calling hot dogs "tacos."

Back to the point: Pro Beans in Chili.

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Meh, more like I don't really care. I probably went the first 35 years of my life without ever hearing the word klobasnik. I still have only seen it on this site. Every damn donut shop I've been to calls it a kolache. Growing up around a bunch of Mexicans, the fajita argument has been part of my life forever.

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Never heard of a klobasnik either unitl this site, and even though I grew up around a bunch of Mexicans as well, never heard of a single argument calling it a chicken or shrimp fajita.

schmellba99 said:

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CDub06 said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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In order of most annoying:

1. Kolache dork
2. Gumbo dork
3. Chili dork
4. Fajita dork

The fajita one I at least understand the argument, but I also understand that words can have multiple meanings.

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You don't understand the kolache one? It's a word for a specific item and some people in this region started using it to identify something completely different. It's like if Nebraskans started calling hot dogs "tacos."

Back to the point: Pro Beans in Chili.

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Totally incorrect, but go on believing that nonsense if it makes you feel good

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Enlighten me, my good sir. Everywhere else, kolache means something specific and it's not pigs in blankets.

As a note of where I'm coming from. We are Czech Czech. My family helped settle Praha (in central Texas) and I have many relatives buried in the cemetery there. My great grandfather spoke Czech and barely spoke English. Growing up, we knew what kolache(s) were. They didn't have meat.

We didn't use the word "klobosnik" though. They were just pigs or pigs in blankets.


I'll also add that I grew up around a bunch of Mexicans and Hispanic people and never heard a fajita argument either. And I don't know the gumbo argument and frankly am indifferent and unqualified to participate in that one...

(Once again - Pro Beans)

FIDO 98 explained it above

Bruce Almighty said:

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CDub06 said:

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schmellba99 said:

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CDub06 said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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In order of most annoying:

1. Kolache dork
2. Gumbo dork
3. Chili dork
4. Fajita dork

The fajita one I at least understand the argument, but I also understand that words can have multiple meanings.

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You don't understand the kolache one? It's a word for a specific item and some people in this region started using it to identify something completely different. It's like if Nebraskans started calling hot dogs "tacos."

Back to the point: Pro Beans in Chili.

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Totally incorrect, but go on believing that nonsense if it makes you feel good

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Enlighten me, my good sir. Everywhere else, kolache means something specific and it's not pigs in blankets.

As a note of where I'm coming from. We are Czech Czech. My family helped settle Praha (in central Texas) and I have many relatives buried in the cemetery there. My great grandfather spoke Czech and barely spoke English. Growing up, we knew what kolache(s) were. They didn't have meat.

We didn't use the word "klobosnik" though. They were just pigs or pigs in blankets.


I'll also add that I grew up around a bunch of Mexicans and Hispanic people and never heard a fajita argument either. And I don't know the gumbo argument and frankly am indifferent and unqualified to participate in that one...

(Once again - Pro Beans)

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The faux Cajuns will tell you that gumbo should never mix meat and seafood in gumbo. Real Cajuns will tell you that gumbo is peasant food and you put into it what you have.

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Incorrect.

Cajuns invented gumbo and it was always a staple of foods because of the simplicity and ease of getting ingredients.

Creole's look at gumbo as more of a peasant/poor folk food as they had access to better, more expensive ingredients and dishes such as etoufee, which rely more on things like butter (luxuries back then) and generally had more foods incorporating things like tomatoes.

Also, it's not gumbo if it doesn't have okra or a roux, it is 100% blasphemy to omit either. As far as mixing seafood and land meat - meh, I go either way, though I tend to keep them separate if only because seafood doesn't keep nearly as well for leftovers.