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Michael Odom
 
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:09:15 GMT, Dog3 >
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>Michael Odom > wrote in
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>> http://whatscookingamerica.net/Histo...iliHistory.htm
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>> I don't harbor any delusions that it's "authentic," whatever that
>> means. I offer it as an explanation for the red dish cooked here in
>> Texas. A dish that has been defined as: "detestable food passing
>> itself off as Mexican, sold in the U.S. from Texas to New York."
>>
>> The point is that there is a dish that evolved in central Texas at a
>> certain time in the 1800s, a dish that was called chili. With an "i,"
>> not an "e." Other things evolved out of it later, and they are
>> sometimes called chili.
>>
>> I wish they weren't.
>>
>> modom

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>Interesting link. Thanks for posting it.
>
>Michael


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