Chili Ingredient Debate

@AmbiePam (107738)
United States
December 7, 2025 8:47am CST
I’m not a chili with beans, eater. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t eat it with the beans. But, I hate chili made with sausage instead of hamburger meat. My stepmom recently made her yummy chili with sausage, and I choked it down. I also like a dollop of sour cream in it, although my dad likes to put some shredded cheddar cheese on it. What are your favorite chili ingredients?
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NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (125521)
• United States
19h
I always make it with a few types of beans. I use either ground turkey or ground beef. I top it with shredded cheddar, sour cream, and lots of chopped fresh cilantro.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
18h
I trust whatever chili you’re going to make is going to be delicious.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (80795)
• United States
17h
@NJChicaa — as Don Henley said, “ True, authentic "chili" does not—I repeat, NOT—have beans in it. Beans are a separate dish to be relished and revered in their own right. When you put beans in chili, you insult both the beans AND the chili.” Of course, you aren’t inviting him over for chili, so it doesn’t matter.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (163144)
• United States
18h
I would try chili you make even though I'm not a beans fan.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (488498)
• Italy
19h
Surely not with sausage, I like with more meat than beans and a dollop of sour cream on top.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
18h
Do not do sausage. Ever. I thought maybe I was missing something, but ew.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (163144)
• United States
18h
I would also try chili you make, too. And yes, the more meat, the better I'll like it.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (488498)
• Italy
18h
@DaddyEvil - I like the taste of meat, some beans is fine, but only beans is really too much.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (199719)
• United States
19h
Not sure I ever had chili with sausage, but I have had it with chunks of beef and I like that. In fact, if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be real chunks of beef in it as opposed to hamburger.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
18h
Oh, definitely. That sounds delicious.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (80795)
• United States
17h
Gee, I haven’t had chili in ages. We made ours with spaghetti. Now, before you think that’s weird, when we had a chili day at my duty station in Pearl Harbor, they served it with rice.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
17h
I love it with spaghetti! But I don’t know if I’d go for rice.
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91580)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11h
I only have canned chili when I can get it usually Hormel with beans, Sometimes i add some ingredients to it,
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366802)
• Rockingham, Australia
9h
We never have it. We weren't brought up with beans so never cook with them. Our son likes his chili and now makes his own in the slow cooker that we bought him.
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Stacey
@xstitcher (36876)
• Petaluma, California
18h
I'm not a huge fan of homemade chili (I know, I'm a weirdo).
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (146857)
• Roseburg, Oregon
7h
I like chili with beans and with pork sausage. I fix it that way half the time.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (207760)
• United States
4h
I like LOTS of beans; but I'm not supposed to have beans anymore.
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (62)
• United States
17h
Hamburger, onions, chili powder, and tomato sauce. No beans, no sausage.
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