I prefer my chili without beans, but don't mind if there aren't too many beans.
It's all a matter of where you learned to eat chili, I think.
I have always enjoyed a hot dog with mustard, onions and bean-less chili.
When I was in Oakland, I learned that a place called Kasper's had great chili hot dogs. I figured it was true, because there was always a police car or two in their parking lot.
So, one evening after work, I stopped in and asked for two chili dogs to go.
I saw them take the buns, apply mustard, the wieners and onions and then they held each dog over a pot and ladled some liquid over the hot dogs.
I looked at them rather suspiciously and then asked what they had put on my hot dogs.
The server looked at me incredulously and declared it to have been chili. To my eyes, it looked like colored water with beans.
I suggested, as I was leaving, that they refresh themselves on the concept of chili and start using ground beef to give it substance. That chili powder in water with beans is NOT chili.
I never went back.
