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Charles Gifford
 
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Default The origins of Texas style chili


"Nixon, D" > wrote in message
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> "Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
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> > "Wayne Lundberg" > wrote in message
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> > > The other comment is that, as far as I know, chili contains beef and
> > > although deer and antelope were here long before the conquest,

> >
> > Just a gentle correction for anyone who cares. There have never been
> > antelope in the Americas. You are probably refering to the pronghorn -
> > "Antelocapra americana". It is not related to antelopes nor to any

living
> > animal. As the scientific name suggests, they are sometimes placed in a
> > group of animals called "goat antelopes" although they are neither.

Other
> > animals in this group: chamois, saiga, takin and muskox. Other than the
> > muskox and takin none are actually related.
> >
> > Charlie

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> Oh yeah?? Well if that be true, tell me this-------------------- why

would
> "where the deer and the ANTELOPE play" be in the words of the
> most popular song of the 20th Century !!!! ???? I'm talkin'
> Home on the Range !
>
> McDave


But, but.....that's the same song that has non-existent buffalo roaming too!
<grin>

Charlie