Your Controversial Food Opinions • Page 293

I just made a bowl of chili (which was awesome), and I don't go to this level of insanity, but I'll mix in some sour cream, cheese, and crushed tortilla chips and it totally changes the texture and flavor from what it tastes like right out the pot. Sometimes its like why go to all the effort, just to completely change the texture and taste, but eh, it's how I like it.

This was actually the best batch of chili I've made in a while and since it's fresh in my mind, here's some of the things I did (most of what I think is far from controversial, but you never know around here).

- I soaked some dried chili peppers in beef stock and then blended them up and poured that in. (Just ancho's this time, I like Guajillo but I ran out).
- Reduced a bottle of Guinness with the onions and tomato paste before adding in the canned tomatoes and stock.
- Used a lot of chilis and different types (blend of habaneros / jalapenos and serrano's so it's got good heat).
- Cooked bacon in the pot first for extra fat. I used turkey this time and my wife likes it that way, but I wanted it to be not so lean, so I cooked the bacon, used the fat for frying everything else, and added the chopped bacon back in to simmer.
- With the dried chili's and the beer, it was getting a little bitter so brown sugar to balance it out.
- A healthy splash or Worcestershire sauce.
- I like to use 2 big cans of tomatoes and I like a mix of crushed (regular), and then fire roasted diced. Gives a nice balance of textures.

 

I had to look at your location to see US as that's how chili is eaten in England and I remember a reddit post where a confused person from the UK was like wtf... you just dump it in a bowl and add shit on top? In England it's always called chili can carne, and it's normally kidney beans and beef and spices and served like a curry with white rice on one side of the plate. Just having a big bowl of chili would confuse people.

I much prefer the American version (whatever that is, as I know chili is different to different people, but a big bowl is just comfort food this time of year).

 

I've seen it on social media. It looks decent for the price.

 

Haha I actually learned to eat chili that way from my Korean buddy :) his family serves rice with everything

 

Chili's is once again earning my respect by running a campaign about why adults deserve chicken tenders more than kids

 

Also, Cracker Barrel has booze now. Had a peach mimosa with my country fried steak today lol

 

Oh shit

 

Game changer. I might get fucked up, eat some chicken and dumplings, play that peg game, buy some tasteful knick knacks, and black out in a rocking chair.

 

You can just go to a Cracker Barrel? Like you don't have to be on a road trip?

 

The sooner you realize this, the sooner you free yourself

 

If you wanna eat at the Cracker Barrel around here, you better show up at 3:30. The bluebirds pack that mother lover until the dinner rush.

 

love Cracker Barrel

 

My wife and I both got dinner (she had three sides) and I had the mimosa and our bill was like $30. Crazy value. The hashbrown casserole rips

 

That's insanely good value. I picked up McDonalds the other day for dinner and it was almost $25 for two people.

 

If any of you total weirdos wanna get in on it, I'm doing a "Best Smell Ever" tournament over on IG @best.blank.ever

 

Pancakes taste best when they’re a bit undercooked. Gotta have some gooey batter on the inside.

 

Having intrusive thoughts about how good a pancake (batter) Ben and Jerry's flavor would be.

 

Pancake Halo Top ice cream was repulsive. Anything with artificial maple flavoring is bad

 

lol you know like the vast majority of pancake syrup you get at a restaurant or buy from a grocery store is just corn syrup with artificial maple flavoring right? Anything in a plastic bottle is artificial maple.

Only the $6 premium glass bottle syrups are the real deal.

 

I haven’t had syrup in over a decade

 

1) all Halo Top ice cream is bad and 2) you're wrong about maple flavoring

 

never change Mick

 

aaron what's wrong with halo top dude