Your opening line is nonsense. “No one can agree”. Yes they can. It’s a simple dish that the British do wrong. Also, what on earth logic is this to apply? “Chile con carne isn’t Mexican so let’s make it taste like Mexican food” – ARE YOU DERANGED? Chile con carne is just that. Two ingredients (basically). Chiles (or chillis if you want) and meat. That’s it. Water, salt, but nothing else. It’s about using the right types of chile prepared correctly and the right meat cooked the right way. What it certainly IS NOT is minced beef, tomato, kidney beans, etc
It might be a Texan Dish but based on the time it was created it would probably also be a Mexican dish. Since it was right around or before the time of the first fight of seccession to keep slavery as an institution.
As an American married to a Mexican-American, I can tell you chilli con carne is 100% Texan, the only argument for it being Mexican is that it might have been created before Texas left Mexico. It is seen as a cowboy dish, not a Mexican dish.
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Chilli with meat, thats pretty much it
Welp I hope condimaniacs next rabbit hole after 100% British ketchup isn't oaxcan black molè because that would be an adventure and a half
Documenting date nights as condiment research for tax purposes is great.
Your opening line is nonsense. “No one can agree”. Yes they can. It’s a simple dish that the British do wrong. Also, what on earth logic is this to apply? “Chile con carne isn’t Mexican so let’s make it taste like Mexican food” – ARE YOU DERANGED? Chile con carne is just that. Two ingredients (basically). Chiles (or chillis if you want) and meat. That’s it. Water, salt, but nothing else. It’s about using the right types of chile prepared correctly and the right meat cooked the right way. What it certainly IS NOT is minced beef, tomato, kidney beans, etc
It might be a Texan Dish but based on the time it was created it would probably also be a Mexican dish. Since it was right around or before the time of the first fight of seccession to keep slavery as an institution.
I personally will be fuming if it does not win
As an American married to a Mexican-American, I can tell you chilli con carne is 100% Texan, the only argument for it being Mexican is that it might have been created before Texas left Mexico. It is seen as a cowboy dish, not a Mexican dish.
Oi , ' fess up on the ketchup straining passata fix !!!!"