Mr Libido Incognito provided:

> Superbowl Chili Soup
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> Comments: No matter where you're watching the game, and no matter how
> many snacks and munchies are laying around, there's just nothing like the
> taste of chili to pep up the plays.

I first started making chili for football games about seven or eight years
ago, when I was deployed to Kuwait for most of the football season several
years in a row, and the games would begin showing on television in the
middle of the night. Chili was a little taste of home, and watching the
football games from halfway around the world helped the time go by. So now
I make chili for every Super Bowl, even if I'm not watching it with anybody
else.

The chili recipe I used in those days was quite simple: Just a bunch of
ground beef, several cans of Ro-Tel (amazingly available in the markets), a
can or two of kidney beans, cumin, and several spoonfuls of a very potent
chile-garlic paste. (I haven't seen that particular chile-garlic paste since
then. It wasn't Sriracha; it was much dryer than that. Its consistency was
something like damp sand; when you scooped out a spoonful, the depression
didn't fill in.)

Nowadays, I've got dozens of different recipes for chili, and I pretty much
like them all. If I'm making chili for a football game, I choose by whim.

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!

Bob