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As we prepare for hay rides and roasting apples let’s not forget an old time favorite that is quick and easy to prepare, tasty and oh so filling—chili! Chili has been a favorite American dish since the early 17th century. Consider some of these quotes and quips from famous Americans over the years:

Chili Quotes & Trivia

  • "Next to music there is nothing that lifts the spirits and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili."—Unknown
  • "Congress should pass a law making it mandatory for all restaurants serving chili to follow a Texas recipe."—Harry James (1916-1983) band leader and trumpeter
  • "Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili."—alleged dying words of Kit Carson (1809-1868), Frontiers Man and Mountain Man
  • "Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate."–John Steele Gordon
  • "Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind."—Margaret Cousins, novelist
  • "The aroma of good chili should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss."— Motto of the Chili Appreciation Society International
  • "It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together."—John Thorne, Simple Cooking
  • "The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own god."—Diana Kennedy, cookbook author
  • "Chili concocted outside of Texas is usually a weak, apologetic imitation of the real thing. One of the first things I do when I get home to Texas is to have a bowl of red. There is simply nothing better."—Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
  • "Whenever I meet someone who does not consider chili a favorite dish, then I've usually found someone who has never tasted good chili."—Jan Butel, author of "Chili Madness," published by Workman Publishing, 1980

Did You Know?

Will Rogers (1879-1935), popular actor, cattleman, banker, and journalist, called chili "bowl of blessedness." It is said that Will Rogers judged a town by the quality of its chili. He sampled chili in hundreds of towns, especially in Texas and Oklahoma and kept a box score. He concluded that the finest chili (in his judgment was from a small cafe in Coleman, Texas.