When does it stop being chili?
I remember when my mom would make 10 or 20 gallons of "chili" to feed the homeless. There was stew meat, cut up chuck roasts, ground beef, multiple kinds of sausage, tomatoes in multiple forms, several kinds of beans, rice, macaroni, potatoes, celery, whole and halved onions, carrots, chili peppers of various types, pounds(?) of various spices...and more other stuff I can't remember. It sat in giant 5 gallon pots on the stove and bubbled for at least 24 hours before she'd load it up and deliver it.
Even she agreed it wasn't chili; it was something that could make hungry people feel nourished after one bowl.
But it started off as chili and grew over time. I really can't point to the moment it stopped being chili.
I remember when my mom would make 10 or 20 gallons of "chili" to feed the homeless. There was stew meat, cut up chuck roasts, ground beef, multiple kinds of sausage, tomatoes in multiple forms, several kinds of beans, rice, macaroni, potatoes, celery, whole and halved onions, carrots, chili peppers of various types, pounds(?) of various spices...and more other stuff I can't remember. It sat in giant 5 gallon pots on the stove and bubbled for at least 24 hours before she'd load it up and deliver it.
Even she agreed it wasn't chili; it was something that could make hungry people feel nourished after one bowl.
But it started off as chili and grew over time. I really can't point to the moment it stopped being chili.
