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Jack Sloan
 
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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
> nk.net...
> >
> > "Nixon, D" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > >
> > > "Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
> > > ink.net...
> > > >
> > > > "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
> > > ================================================== =======
> > >
> > > 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

>
> ================================================== ===========
>
> Well, one of those non-existent buffaloes tore the arm off a cousin of
> mine when he was on a picnic in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma
> in 1972. He was a native OKIE, a Warrant Officer in the U.S. Army
> Artillery,
> and should have know better than to wander among the herd in the
> rutting season !! They did let him stay in the Army until his
> retirement.
>
> McDave
>

A one armed Okie can't pick much fruit in California.
Kack<G>