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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, like, how is that a selling point?

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Texas chili doesn’t have beans. It’s absolutely a selling point.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So the original 'chili Queens" who brought chili con carne to Texas sometimes added beans. It was often used as a topping for tamales. If you go back further, pretty much as far as you can go on this particular subject, the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans all had precursor dishes that were meat, peppers, spices, and beans. Delicious proto chili!

Beans have been a part of chili since the beginning. You can't add them for a lot of competitions, but that doesn't make the off-competition stuff any less authentic. Central Texas gets weird about it, but they get weird about a lot of shit. They're the ones who took the recipe from tejanas and removed the beans in the first place.

That being said, I prefer a chili with no beans. You can skip the rest of this comment because it's just a guy who is now reminiscing about chili past and thinking of chili future.

I will take a bunch of peppers I've grown (usually super hot, but I have some guajillos and jalapenos in the mix this year) and smoke them, yellow onion, garlic, beer, cayenne, masa harina, strong coffee, a collection of spices to make my own chili powder (not a secret, I just don't have my recipe card in front of me....it heavily features smoked paprika and cumin), a little homemade adobo sauce, homemade bacon, and whatever leftover beef I have (usually brisket, sometimes chuck, and around the holidays rib roast) cut into little cubes and cooked up. I don't think I've made chili with beef that wasn't leftovers for a couple of decades.

It takes probably half an hour of work, then half a day of simmering stirring very occasionally, then mix in the masa harina 15 or 20 minutes before you're ready to serve.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I appreciate the history lesson and the delicious sounding recipe.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I think most of the world finds it to be an odd selling point.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

TIL, thanks.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can hear the sound of it slowly sliding out of the can, being slowed by suction, and then breaking free and falling into the plate with a splat.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Sschhhhhloooooouuup

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I mean, I've had texans make stuff that looked just like that and then proclaim themselves chili gods.

Texas seems to think they own chili, btw. Kinda silly that this brand hasn't been boycotted like hell.

[–] k0mprssd@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago

where are the fritos???

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I wasn't hungry before, I'm certainly not hungry now.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It looks like hot ass, but real talk, pretty tasty.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

I've eaten hot ass. This just looks like septic tank sludge.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

IIRC, this just tasted like "burnt." (Picture is a few years old.)

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

I feel like no one that's offended by this has ever made their own chili. When chili is made right, beans or not, it should be about this consistency when it's room temperature. Chili is supposed to be a main course, not a soup, and it's not supposed to be thin.

Having used Wolf brand chili before, it's just fine once it's heated up. It's solidly okay as canned chili.

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Lived there a few years back in 1980s. cornbread has jalapenos and goes with chili.

my Texas pill tray

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Just like momma used to make

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think we found the poster child for the switch to bug-based food production.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Given it's a conagra brand, pretty sure there's a nonzero amount of bug parts. At least it is bean free, so also less likely to be infused with rocks

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Looks recycled...

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)