I recently hared for Austin's Hash group (austinh3.org) and, fulfilling my duty as a hare, I prepared a tasty meal for the hungry hounds to munch on before circle. I claimed this meal was a chili (cooked with the proper levels of both love and beer), which incited some anger from those dirty, ungrateful hounds (who I still love forever).
The primary issue was the STEW had no MEAT in it, which certain dirty hounds insist is an integral part of chili (a lie, see my previous post on beet chili, which this meal was a variation on), but after some drunken, angry debate, we came to the conclusion that ANYTHING can be chili IF it contains chili-specific spices, namely chili powder, cumin, and salt. Therefore, I had to concede, my stew was, in fact, a stew and not a chili.
The more you know.
