| It's simple really. Peppers with meat in
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| | down the Chili Queens, but not the public
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| a spicy stew with tomatoes, onions, beans
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| | appetite for this tasty Western dish.
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| and other ingredients in as many
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| | Chili parlors opened by hundreds. These
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| variations as the mind can muster. From
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| | small, family-run chili joints spread
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| Baja to Cincinnati right through the
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| | from Texas to the rest of the USA, and
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| heart of Texas, where it's the official
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| | became a part of the pre-WWII American
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| state dish, chile con carne, or chili for
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| | landscape. Even today hardly any American
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| short, is among the most famous
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| | who claims to be able to cook doesn't
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| indigenous American foods.
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| | have their very own secrete recipe for
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| Some say that chili was invented in
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| | chili, whether it be hot, sweet, thick,
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| Mexico during the 1840's, possibly in
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| | soupy or just plain odd.
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| Chihuahua, as a complimentary dish served
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| | Regional variations add a certain level
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| at cantinas for outsiders, who wanted
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| | of enjoyment for chili lovers.
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| something spicy and cheap. Others contend
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| | Traditional Texas style chili is thick
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| it was born in Ensenada, Mexico in the
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| | and uses few to no vegetables. New Mexico
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| 1880's as a way of stretching available
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| | chili is famed for it's thinner
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| meat in the kitchens of poor Tejanos.
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| | consistency and the use of green rather
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| Many Texans maintain that it was the
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| | than red chili peppers. In the chili in
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| invention of Texas cowhands who ate it by
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| | Cincinnati, Ohio has a sauce like quality
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| the bucketful as the drove their herds
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| | and is used as a condiment or topping for
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| across the plains. The most imaginative
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| | hotdogs or spaghetti. White chili uses no
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| origin traces its roots back to
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| | tomato and relies on beans. Vegetarian
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| pre-Columbian Aztec chefs.
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| | chili (chile sin carne) is, of course,
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| What is known for a fact is that in the
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| | meatless. Health conscious chili ditches
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| 1880's, colorfully-dressed Hispanic women
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| | the suet and substitutes white button
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| called "Chili Queens" began to operate
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| | mushrooms for beans to lower the
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| around Military Plaza and other high
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| | calories. In fact, chili is such a
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| traffic public places in downtown San
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| | malleable dish that it can be hard to
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| Antonio, Texas, where they would reheat
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| | define. Still, most people know it when
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| cast iron pots of pre-cooked chili and
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| | they taste it, and are all to happy to do
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| sell it by the bowl.
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| | so.
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| Sanitation laws in the late 30's shut
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