In article >,
"modom (palindrome guy)" > wrote:

> Today was the 6th annual chili cook off here in Cow Hill. As you may
> or may not know I've entered before.
>
> I've lost.
>
> I'm a champeen chili loser, in fact. I made chili with red wine in it
> only to discover the deep truth that you don't serve red wine to red
> necks.

<lol> Even _I_ know better than that. ;-)


> I made chili with Dos Equis in it only to learn that you don't
> serve THAT to chili judges either.

EW! Have you ever tasted that crap? It tastes like earwax!
Even Coors is better!
Dos Equis is some of the nastiest beer on the market. I honestly don't
know how it sells at all.

> In short I'm a chili chowderhead
> when it comes to contests like this. My chili isn't what counts in
> competition circuits. I could lose a chili contest in my sleep. If
> Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, and Wolfgang Puck were cooking chili with
> me, we'd lose. Some geezer from Longview would haul in the laurels
> and we'd have to clean up the cook stoves.

Try using V-8 juice as the base. One of my co-workers won a chili
contest that way. :-)
--
Peace! Om

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-- Anon.