On Jan 27, 1:12*pm, Giles wrote:
On Jan 27, 12:33*pm, Tom Littleton wrote:

On 1/27/2011 1:32 PM, Tom Littleton wrote: On 1/27/2011 12:07 PM, Giles wrote:

Chili is arguably the most arguable subject in culinary history.

.....have you forgotten Gumbo so quickly?g Then again, on this little
corner of the Internet, any foodstuff becomes an arguable topic. I
remember several days of bruschetta debate a while back. As for stew,
does your world's best recipe entail moose meat?

Tom

that should have read 'include moose meat'. Sorry.

Works either way. *Simply a matter of where one stands and which way
the moose was headed.

As to "Gumbo".....well, that's just chili.....without the chilis.

And the bruschetta debate, in the final analysis, revolved around the
question of whether or not one is an inescapably prissy doughboy from
a region that would have been better left as long-grass prairie, thus
eliminating the possibility that it would one day be guilty of housing
terrified blowhards.

Most of us, I am happy to report (and on good authority) are not.

giles
who feels it should not be necessary to point out that this leaves
open the possibility, nay, even the certainty, that some of
us.....indeed.....are.

One hastens to add, lest erstwhile critics expose themselves
unnecesarily (yes, we already know you), that, yes, these too are
contentious issues, in some circles (where people are too dumb to
masturbate), but none of them approach the great chili debate in
breadth, depth, scope, magnitude, importance, illumination,
irrationality, bombastity (if one may be allowed to coin a
term.....assuming no one else did it first.....of course), murkiness,
lucidity, triviality, obtuseness, opacity, obscurantism, blind/stupid
faith, flatulence and downright cussidness.

giles
ask us about mustard greens sometime.....go on.....we dare ya!