As in a hearty beef stew, or a nice bowl of chili should only be eaten in the winter time?
Myself, I don’t. I told my friend I’m in the mood for a nice spicy bowl of chili. His response was: “In the summer?:dubious:”
I know he’s not alone in this thinking. I’m just curious what the divide is here.
Largely yes, I’d have to say. Once the spring arrives it’s good bye roast beef and hello BBQ! In part because one heats the house up. Partly because of all the fresh summers eats like fruits and veg, that are either not around, not fresh, or too expensive in the off season. Heavy foods don’t appeal as much when it’s warm out, for me.
All that said I still BBQ ribs in the snow, just not as often. So I’m a yes, but I’m not a slave to it certainly.
I try to eat locally, as much as I can afford, in the summer. So yeah, much more fresh fruit and veg in the summer and stuff like stews and chili and hearty soups are saved for beans and root vegetables and such in the colder months.
But if someone wants to make those things in summer, I don’t give them guff for it. I’ll still order things like that in restaurants and had a yummy bowl of chili a couple weeks ago.
Yes, I was just thinking today that I cannot wait until fall to break out the chili, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, etc.
There are some things I enjoy seasonally because they are best in season and taste lousy when they’re out of season. Apples, sweet corn on the cob, and tomatoes are good examples. I’m gonna be depressed when watermelon season ends here in a few weeks.
You can only enjoy eggnog in December. I think it’s a law
Green Chile Stew and Corn Chowder are summer dishes, period. Because that’s when the chiles are green and the corn is sweet. You can make it with canned or frozen ingredients, but seriously, what’s the point! We eat tomatoes when they come right off the bush in my back yard. I haven’t bought a grocery store tomato in 10 years. You can pay six dollars a pound for perfectly red, round “still-on-the-vine” tomatoes, but they taste exactly like the cheap, crappy slightly orange, hard as a baseball variety in the big bin. Really.
I think that the OP lives in a place that doesn’t get winter. 
And in a city!
I do for ice creams. If I’m in a cold place, I won’t eat ice cream. I’ll wait until it gets above 70°F to try it and other frozen treats.
What if the home you live in is above 70 in the winter? Especially if I’m running the oven for a long time, it can get up to 78 or sometimes even warmer. Ice cream time!
Nope… if it is cold outside, no ice cream for me. 
You can do as you want, I’ll pass.
Also, I don’t keep ice cream in my house, as I lack willpower. Ice cream is reserved for outings.
Interesting factoid: What city has been named the world Slurpee capital for fourteen years in a row?
Winnipeg. Source
I believe in seasonal ingredients. As in peaches in the winter are grown thousands of miles away and shipped unripe and taste like shit, so I only eat fresh peaches in the summer from a reasonably local source.
Dishes? Nah, I’d eat chili any time. I love ice cream in the winter.
I’ve always thought of turkey (the whole bird, not sliced for sammiches) as a clearly winter holiday meal - as have most other people I assume. However, I’ve been tempted for years to cook one up for July 4 or some other summer holiday occasion because it’s just so damn good. And it would seem SO out of place…
Only to the extent that there are certain foods that require ingredients that are in season only some of the time (e.g., I’m not making gazpacho or caprese salad if I can’t get fresh, locally grown tomatoes). Nothing wrong with chili or stew in the summertime.
Overall, yes. There are certain foods and drinks I’m more in the mood for in the fall/winter than the spring/summer. Chili, though, I don’t associate with a particular season.
Well, we will do a turkey dinner or chili or stew winter or summer [got a lovely beef stew going right now as a matter of fact. Just finished baking bread a little while ago to go with it.]
Fruits and veggies are the items that we consider seasonal - can’t get the lovely huge globe artichokes all year round, or corn on the cob straight off the stalk all year around. And we are getting to be pretty paranoid about buying our normal fruits and veggies from anywhere except a local farm because unlike Central/South America and China, they don’t use raw human or animal shit as a fertilizer. They use chemicals like DuPont intended. [And I mandate that there is nothing wrong with chemical fertilizers when used properly. They are the same stuff you get in crap, just purified and no bacteria.] When we do get something that our favorite place doesn’t grow, we check the source - artichokes come from Castoville, and the melons and exotic fruits come from my sister-in-law’s exhusbands families ag business. [Got to love the Central Valley!]
And I am very serious about making sure that my food is not sourced from China whenever I can. I do not trust their government to keep to any sort of food purity, not after all the crap that seems to happen in their food industry.
Yes, mostly. Although the colder it gets, the more likely I am to eat ice cream. It actually seems to make your body warm up.