Look, I didn’t want to waste any of it, but the wafers were stale and the filling tasted a little rancid. I should have stuck with my first answer.
While I’m talking about it, this post about botulism from sardines has also made me rethink my willingness to eat the olive oil.
The fact that my fellow Texans will argue endlessly about whether beans should be in chili tells you that both are essentially acceptable. I like them either way.
Without beans.
Beans (and not only kidney beans) on the side are great, and I want to control the meat & chiles to beans ratio. Mostly I prefer rice on the side with my chili con carne, and sometimes a tortilla.
I also like variations of which carne is used. Chicken, lamb, goat, are all fine. I’ve even had rattlesnake and alligator chile that were delicious. How chili came to mean only kidney beans with ground beef and some peppers for a large swath of the country is beyond me.
It’s not necessarily ‘fightin words’ wrong, but it sure is boring 
“No True Texan” would accept beans in chili.
Arguably, chili is not one specific food but a whole family of foods.
I legit can’t even conceptualize chili without beans. Leaving aside how delicious it is, the combination of fiber and protein is a winning nutritional choice. My husband is allergic to tomatoes so I make white chicken chili with pinto and cannellini beans.
Bowel movements thread:
I put it on mute. I hate scatological humor. I think my imagination is too vivid. But I can see how some people would find it hilarious.
I didn’t go that far, but I saw the title, thought “nah,” and never opened it. Hence, I have no opinion on it.
I thought the idea was very mildly amusing, but I suspected that, having read the thread title, I had already seen the most amusing part.
I am not in the least interested in reading the bowel movement thread; which doesn’t seem to be an option, so I didn’t vote. I have no objection to talking about shit in some contexts, but har-de-har it’s shit! doesn’t appeal to me.
– I think beans-or-no-beans is orthogonal to meat-or-no-meat. I’ve had chili with beans and with meat; chili with beans and with no meat; and chili with meat and no beans. I can’t remember whether I’ve ever had chili with neither beans nor meat, though I think it’s quite possible that I have, and in any case I’d be willing to try it. Pretty much all the chili I’ve had has been good, though some of it is too hot for me and I think I’ve had a tofu version in which I wasn’t wild about the tofu.
Chili gotta have beans and meat, sez I. But I understand there are others who think differently, and that’s OK. God bless America!
I like black beans and hence black bean and meat chili. Any other bean would ruin it for me.
There was no both option for the chili. When I was younger I had a thing about beans. Didn’t like the texture. At some point I got over it. I now prefer chili with beans but I like it without just fine.
And now I want white bean chicken chili.
Ahem. We have it in Arizona, too, along with chili colorado, the beef stew with red chilis the Mexicans started with before the Texans got their hands on it. Pozole, too.
Pretty sure it doesn’t count anywhere you spell chile with an “i”. 
(Maybe if our soccer team gets better we can transfer that competitive energy to sports. We just haven’t had anything but chile to work with all these years!)
Can you get chili in Chile?
Exactly what I was thinking about when I saw the olive oil option!
Me too. It wasn’t straight olive oil, it was herbs in olive oil. Storing anything non-acidic in oil, without refrigerating it, is a Bad Idea.
And I’m not afraid of the shit thread. I’m just not interested in it. No “yet”
about it.
I can tell you guys, right? I find the bowel movement description thread utterly hilarious, and I’ve been reading the replies to Mr. Legend, since we’re the only people we can have that kind of discussion with. Our daughter pointedly put in her headphones.
I’ve had chili soup, and that’s what chili without beans is like for me. I like either, but I mostly eat chili with beans. I like all varieties: with, without, kidney (we make ours with a combo of kidney and pinto), black, canneloni, red sauce, green sauce, white sauce). All fine if I’m in the mood for it.