Hi Dave,

 DD> Another note on Joe DeFrates - he is/was the only two-time winner of
 DD> the International Chili Society's World Championship. I'll post what
 DD> he claimed was his recipe for that winning chilli below.

Probably will never again have the same person win two championships. I
make an ICS type chili that's won a (and placed a number of times) in
our church's cook off but never entered a major cook off.

 RH> WOW! I didn't realise the state was so into chili. We left Pigeon Forge
 RH> a day early (weather coming in and Steve has a can't miss dr. appt.
 RH> Monday), took a country road up to I-40. On the way we passed the
 RH> Bush's Beans factory & visitor's center. We didn't stop this time but
 RH> maybe some other time when we're in the area we'll consider it. A can
 RH> of beans was in our rally goody bag.

 DD> Bush makes a very good product. I use their pinto beans sometimes in
 DD> my home chilli. If cooking for a chilli supper or siilar event I'm
 DD> more
 DD> likely to go with Brook's Chili Hot Beans in the #10 can. But Bush's
 DD> chilli beans are good, if a bit of a different flavour profile. I've
 DD> not found them in a #10 can, though. Just the usual 15 oz grocery
 DD> store items.

Our rally was held not too far from the Bush facilities. Had we not had
the tire problem and bad weather, we might have visited it. Made it home
yesterday, spent the night in Greensboro, NC so we were out of western
NC before the closing of I-40 and other roads. As is, it took twice as
long to get home as the drive usually is, hard rain for most of the way
until we got to this side of Durham.

 DD> by the state legislature and signed by (then) Governor Jim Edgar.
 DD> The whole thing was sponsored by former Springfield Mayor and then
 DD> State Senator Karen Hasara. You can read the story here:
 DD> https://tinyurl.com/CHILLINAME

 RH> OK, might give it a look/see when we get back home and resettled.

We're home, but not resettled. Got the basics done but will do the rest
over the next few days.


 DD> Don Eastep is the guy whose "15 Minutes of Fame" consisted of a bogus
 DD> win the the Chili Appreciation Society's "Behind The Store" cook-off.
 DD> He was elegible (along with both of his brothers) but had not planned
 DD> on cooking. So he got a sample of each cook's chilli and mixed them
 DD> together, turn in the result ... and won. When the story came out the
 DD> "win" was rescinded, the trophy and prize $$$ awarded to the guy who
 DD> finished second. And a (joke) warrant issued for Don.

 DD> A few years later he was invited back, the Governor of Texas granted
 DD> a pardon on the charges and he cooked against the Dentist who rightly
 DD> won their previous encounter. At the end of the day there were only 2
 DD> points separating them.

Good story to pass on to Grandkids. (G)

 RH> There's an outlet store in Pigeon Forge, stopped there today and got an
 RH> 8 compartment scone pan, a 6 cup muffin pan and several small
 RH> accessories--with a military discount spent less than $90.

 DD> Scones is something I've never made or knowingly eaten. That is I may
 DD> have had a scone at some time without knowing it was called a scone.
 DD> Bv)=

They are usually triangular in shape, sort of like a biscuit but more
flavorful. We make an oatmeal based scone from a booklet we got from
Quaker Oats several decades ago.

 DD> When I was a kid I haunted the midway and its rides and games of
 DD> "skill". As well as climbing all over the farm machinery displayed. I
 DD> pretend drove a wide range of tractors, etc. before I was old enough
 DD> to drive them in the real world and learned it's a chore, not
 DD> necessarily a fun thing.

 RH> I never got into them, partly because my folks never took us to


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