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. I made chili with Dos Equis in it only to learn that you don't
> serve THAT to chili judges either. 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.
>
> Nonetheless, today I and my compadres entered the chili cook off
> again. Irrepressible children that we are, we vied for a local chili
> (non-CASI-sanctioned) prize of $1,000. We entered as Team Community
> Garden, for it was the garden we sought to enrich with our chili.
>
> And cook we did!
>
> I ground the beef and pork yesterday. And I toasted and ground the
> anchos and guajillos yesterday as well. We showed up with Gebhardt's
> and toasted and ground chiles and a passel of other seasonings like
> cominos, onion powder, garlic powder, oregano, and paprika. We set up
> a second camp stove to make a stock from pork neck bones and pasilla
> negra chiles to augment the chili reduction in the first pot. We
> tasted and adjusted our dish. We sampled the competition and compared
> it with our dish.
>
> We were satisfied with our effort. It was good chili, meaty and
> tasty.
>
> I filled the judges' cup and delivered same to the anointed site. And
> we waited. And waited. And waited.
>
> And...
>
> The best local chili award went to a team from Kennesaw Georgia.
>
> WTF?!!!?
>
> The best chili in Cow Hill Texas was made by a team from Kennesaw
> Georgia? Who's running this thing?
>
> We were robbed.

First, now YOU can write! Kudos!

Second, as I read, I felt you would win. Robbery for sure. :-(

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Jean B.