chili on dogs

chili on dogs...........beans or no beans, that is the question.

Pandora's box has now been OPENED...

Did he say BEANS!

To me, either way works. But prefer all meat sauce (less of a mess).. Though the beans if cooked down to a sauce, do add some awesome flavor!

No beans

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Originally posted by djtomatoe

chili on dogs...........beans or no beans, that is the question.

It is not possible to put chili on hotdogs if there are beans involved. That's because there are no beans in chili.

Aint no BEANS about it.

We don't need no stinkin beans.

With or without beans isn't an issue for me...but make the chili thick enough to 'stick' to the weinie. I don't care for the thin, watery chili that's like pouring soup over the Hot Dog!

Knoxville has had a chile in the tube called Housers. it is super and it is great on the dogs. I had it first in 1950. It has not changed and is still available today in the same format. It is super.

Knoxvillians, you should try this. It is available in most local stores.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

Knoxville has had a chile in the tube called Housers. it is super and it is great on the dogs. I had it first in 1950. It has not changed and is still available today in the same format. It is super.

Knoxvillians, you should try this. It is available in most local stores.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Does it have beans?

Anything with beans is not chile!

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Originally posted by UncleVic

To me, either way works. But prefer all meat sauce (less of a mess).. Though the beans if cooked down to a sauce, do add some awesome flavor!

HEAR HEAR!! Thin soupy chili leaves you messy and wondering why you paid extra..

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Originally posted by UncleVic

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

Knoxville has had a chile in the tube called Housers. it is super and it is great on the dogs. I had it first in 1950. It has not changed and is still available today in the same format. It is super.

Knoxvillians, you should try this. It is available in most local stores.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Does it have beans?

Houser's has never contained beans. Just good tube chili.

Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN

Why are there chile beans???[8D

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Originally posted by jim hilton

Anything with beans is not chile!

Probably because some fool added beans to perfectly good beef chile.

I’m so confused

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Originally posted by jojobeans

Why are there chile beans???

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Originally posted by jim hilton

Anything with beans is not chile!

For folks in the cold zones, it's so you can warm your snowmobile suit up from the inside. That's why Texans don't need beans, they might spontaneously combust.

Hello All,
I have never seen chili with beans on a hot dog until the other day. At work in our vending machine, (here in Harrisonburg, Va.) there was a Nathan's Hot Dog. I looked at the dog like Moses looking at the burning bush, (beef, not pork, hot dog). My mouth started watering because I had never had a Nathan's in my life. Being in a vending machine, I did not expect much, but thought it had to be different that any other dog I could get around here. I plopped my $1.50 in the machine and got it out. It had chili on it, with beans.
After heating it up, I took a bite....ahhh, loved the dog, the chewiness and spicy flavour of the dog. The texture of the bun was a perfect marriage with the dog.
Scooped off the chili because of the beans.
I think beans are there so they don't have to use more meat.
Take Care,
Fieldthistle

There is a locally made brand of canned hot dog chili sold around Durham, NC called Patterson's that is thicked with crushed pinto bean powder. There are no visible beans, but it's thick enough to stay on top of the dog.

Down East in Washington, NC, the local hot dog joint sells only no meat chili sauce that looks like brown gravy with lots of chili powder in it. This supposedly dates from meat rationing in World War II.

Generally, if I'm going to put chili on a hot dog, I preper the chili to be beanless.

But chili can have beans in it, and still be chili.

There's even a people's choice catagory in chili competition where the chili MUST contain either beans or pasta.

This "it's not chili if it has beans in it" is simply preposterous.

And shame on some of you who laud regional cooking, regional flare, and regional tastes, but condemn beans in chili. That's purely hypocritical.

I like to have beans in all different incarnations of my chili (beef, turkey, veggie, etc) but on hot dogs, I like the saucey all-meat variety, just like they serve at Ben's in DC.

The idea that something called chili can never have beans in it is about as provincial and silly as it gets.

It is hard to find canned all-beef chile so I have tended to eat beans in the chile con carne I eat at home. Like all beef chile but I really have not found that many places that serve it out here.

Esparza's Tex-Mex cafe has all meat chile(Texas style)

While food orthodoxy dictates that Chili is a sans beans dish, and a fact not to be trifled with by the Great Unwashed, in Central New Jersey, going back about 45 years or so, one would be hard-put to find a can of chili on the grocery shelf that indeed had no beans in it.

Chili WAS beans, at least to us.

This was foreign food. If grocery stores had an International section back then, the chili would be there. And if it had no beans, we'd feel cheated: "Hey, Mr. Storekeeper...there ain't no beans in this chili. What's the big idea?"

Accepting chili with no beans would be like buying a Mounds when, for the same price, you could get it with two almonds in an Almond Joy. In other words, we felt we deserved the beans. There was very little less is more back then.

In my neighborhood, Italian food was...now get ready for this...Franco American or Chef Boyardee.And aside from pizza and an Italian hot dog, that's what I thought it was, practically until the time I left for college.

Little did I know that if I traveled a few blocks I could have learned the finer points about the proper sauce (or gravy, depending on which specific neighborhood) to put on your macaronis.

But the closest I got to eating pasta was when my Mom made beef goulash with wide Goodman's noodles. Potatoes and bread were our carbohydrates of choice.

Don't worry. I've since made up for said deprivation. Now, I like a little pesto here, a bit of broccoli rabe there. Ooh, and you should hear me order. "Another helping of polenta, por favor."

Yep, chili had beans, if you please. But while maybe someone made a big culinary faux pas about the chili, not so for the kielbasi. That was serious business.

I knew folks who could steer you to kielbasi in Harrison that was slightly better than the kielbasi in Newark, but maybe not as good as the kielbasi in Clifton.

The discussion might then lead to a debate on whether to age said kielbasi hanging on the back porch or in the pantry.

But wrong or right, Chili had beans in it. And now it doesn't. It's getting to be everything's like that nowadays. Next thing you'll be telling me, Horn & Hardart is closing its Automats.

Hello all ,

I tend to gauge my hot dog experience by getting at least one chili dog at each stop . Needless to say on the 05 Jersey Hot Dog tour I had 8 or so chili dogs . Not all of course are created equal .

I still have to go with Coney Islands in Middletown , Hot Grill and Mannys Texas Weiners as the highlights of the last few years.

None had beans .

Not to say there is anything wrong with that

Benzee

No beans, please!!!!! But add cheese to my chili-dog experience.....and many, many napkins!!!

As many have said:
there are no beans in chili....period.

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Originally posted by hawkeyejohn

As many have said:

there are no beans in chili....period.

The period only accentuates your ignorance of regional cooking.

If there were no beans in chili anywhere at anytime, we wouldn't be having this conversation.Obviously there are beans in chili in many places.
So, the "many" you mention must be the many ignorami.

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Originally posted by hawkeyejohn

As many have said:

there are no beans in chili....period.

Beans in chili is the norm around here... Again, probably the regional thing...