Hi Dave,

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 RH> anything other than the local fireman's carnival--except for one time
 RH> we spent a couple of hours at an amuesment park in St. Catherine's,
 RH> Ontario. After getting married, we went to Busch Gardens once with
 RH> Steve's folks and several Dippemesses in Frankfurt, W. Germany. Latter
 RH> is a big carnival set up and also local potters (& other crafts folks)
 RH> have seasonal sales.

 DD> The last county fair I went to was my local deal in New Berlin. Their
 DD> was a chilli cook-off in which I placed second and won the salsa (pico
 DD> de gallo, really) competition. The hung around to see the free
 DD> grandstand show that evening. Three Dog Night was playing - with all
 DD> but one of its orifinal musicians ... and the one not there was
 DD> pushing up daisies instead of
 DD> touring - mostly because he got his lunch in a traffic mishap.

Must have been fun to see the show. I would enjoy a Peter, Paul and Mary
concert but it's down to a duo now. Saw an interview with Paul on PBS 5
years ago when I was recouperating from the knee surgery--quite
interesting. He was to have a concert in Durham that night but there was
no way we could have gone.

 DD> Here's that chilli recipe and I'm going away.

 DD>       Title: 1975 ICS World Championship Winning Chilli
 DD>  Categories: Five, Beef, Vegetables, Chilies, Stews
 DD>       Yield: 3 Servings

 DD>       1 lb Ground beef
 DD>       1 oz Pkg Chilli Man Chilli Mix *
 DD>       8 oz Can Hunts tomato sauce
 DD>         ds Tabasco sauce

 DD>   Brown ground beef in heavy skillet. Stir in contents of
 DD>   chilli mix and add tomato sauce. Simmer for 1 hour and add
 DD>   Tabasco.

 DD>   * Joe DeFrates originally developed the Chilli Man Mix
 DD>   (the Illinois spelling of Chilli) and sold it, packaged,
 DD>   under that name from the 1950s until he sold the recipe to
 DD>   the Milnot Co. of Litchfield, IL, in the 1970s. It is
 DD>   available today in most midwestern states under the
 DD>   original name. The actual ingredients of the chilli mix are
 DD>   not available.

I've not seen it but we've not usually done any grocery shopping in the
midwest. We're usually well stocked, either just on our way out west or
within a couple of days of getting home and eating down the pantry &
fridge.


 DD>   A FURTHER NOTE: You can believe that this is the actual
 DD>   recipe if you like. But, no chilli cook *ever* gives out
 DD>   the exact recipe that he used. And the original chilli
 DD>   spice mix that Joe probably did use is no longer
 DD>   available - so, use Gebhardt or Mexene or whatever your
 DD>   favourite is. - UDD

I usually don't use a mix--do my own mix of whatever peppers I have on
hand plus onions, meat and tomato whatevers.

 DD> ... "Chilli dawgs always bark at night." -- Lewis Grizzard DD> ---

I miss reading his columns; I always enjoyed him. Steve's favorite (now
departed) columnist was Erma Bombeck.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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