In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options

Pepper Heads!

gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
edited March 2017 in General Discussion
29th Annual new Mexico Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show is this weekend at Sandia Casino! Over a thousand vendors! Hot, hotter, and Wow, That's Hot are the flavors of the weekend!
Perfect timing, too; the NMGCA is having the First Gun Show of 2017 this weekend as well!
Browse guns, eat chile; repeat.

Comments

  • Options
    MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 13,809 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought it was "pepper belly".

    I find folks interest in "spicy foods" somewhat of an oxymoron. Don't people understand why so much of the food(especially meats)from warm climates is spicy? A way to cover the semi-rotten condition due to lack of refrigeration.
  • Options
    gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
    I thought it was "pepper belly".

    I find folks interest in "spicy foods" somewhat of an oxymoron. Don't people understand why so much of the food(especially meats)from warm climates is spicy? A way to cover the semi-rotten condition due to lack of refrigeration.


    Yeah, that may have been true about a couple hundred years ago, but with the advent of JERKY, things have changed. Folks from Kansas are actually living past 45 now, and some of them put spicy mustard on hot dogs.
    Doesn't make the hot dogs any more semi-rotten than usual, but then neither does eating spicy foods nowadays.
    Have a glass of milk with your potato dinner.
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Call me a pepper head/belly. That does not mean that I scorn anything under the hottest thing on the planet. I truly love spicy foods, but it doesn't have to be the spiciEST food.

    Going beyond a certain level of heat is nothing more than masochistic machismo. Pain adds nothing to enjoyment.

    But a nice chili (Chile is a country) warmth adds immensely to the palate, is good for digestion, increases blood flow, and has many other proven and anecdotal health benefits.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Will they have a karaoke singer?

    007WHO_Kyle_Gass_001.jpg
  • Options
    84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 11,109
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LesWVa
    Will they have a karaoke singer?

    007WHO_Kyle_Gass_001.jpg



    I remember that. LOL...!!! Too funny.


    Yes, I am a "Pepper head."
  • Options
    wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The spice of life...
    "What is truth?'
  • Options
    gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    Chili is that gloppy red grease soup made in Texas and other under-informed places.
    Chile is the Plant's fruits' name in its' most widely spoken tongue.
    Chile can be the centerpiece, or a subtle background flavor, or a main ingredient. Chile can be soupy, chunky, fried & breaded, wrapped around other foods, or sprinkled like a powder.
    Chili is goo.
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    By the way, if you are into chili/wings eating contests, I have discovered something that works even better than milk for cutting the mouth burn afterwards: peanut butter.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    gunnut, there is no hard and fast agreement over the spelling, but I will concede that "chile" is probably better for the pepper, and "chili" for the stew.

    I will not address your barbaric and uninformed comments about the stew...which is a divine commingling of meat, peppers, and spices.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 11,109
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    gunnut, there is no hard and fast agreement over the spelling, but I will concede that "chile" is probably better for the pepper, and "chili" for the stew.

    I will not address your barbaric and uninformed comments about the stew...which is a divine commingling of meat, peppers, and spices.




    [:D][:D][:D][:D][:0][:0]
  • Options
    gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    "Oh, Rocky!"- Frankenfurter from Rocky Horror Picture Show

    You'll have to order "chili" at the Oak Street Grill in Graham, Texas to see exactly what I'm talking about; you will receive a bowl, brimming with a half-inch meniscus of grease, concealing the "divine" conglomeration of "meat" & god-knows-what-else that makes up the bulk of the ingredients.
    While there, ask politely if they serve Green "chili"; the response I got was that they throw it out before it gets fully green.
    Another prime spot to discover what can be done to food in the name of "chili" is San Diego. Pick any restaurant in town, and order a bowl of "chili". You'll be asking yourself when spaghetti sauce became "chili".
    You'll also get stares if you deign to add a single saltine to soak up the grease.
    A chef I worked with in Nashville showed me the prize winning recipe for his Smokehouse "Chili"; it started with bacon, ground beef, pulled pork, fatback, potatoes, beans, celery, carrots, a variety of non-chile "chili's", garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric, oregano and beer.
    It was tasty, but with the addition of potatoes, celery & carrots, was more like a greasy stew than any "chili" I've ever had.
    Eat what you like, but PLEASE don't call that stuff chile.
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wouldn't call those things chili, either. It would be like calling Bud Light beer.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    gunnut, there is no hard and fast agreement over the spelling, but I will concede that "chile" is probably better for the pepper, and "chili" for the stew.

    I will not address your barbaric and uninformed comments about the stew...which is a divine commingling of meat, peppers, and spices.



    Anything containing vast amounts of cumin can not be called divine, even by a barbarian from Texas. Come on down Rocky, 505 and I will get you some truly divine food. Huevos Rancheros to die for with green (of course) chile.[:)]


    505 see you at gun check.
  • Options
    rambo rebelrambo rebel Member Posts: 4,028
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LesWVa
    Will they have a karaoke singer?

    007WHO_Kyle_Gass_001.jpg



    man I like the jacket (no greenin ya either)
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would be honored and delighted, He Dog.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 11,109
    edited November -1
    I make some kick a** chili.

    Nothing greasy about it.

    I've been craving it. Have not made it, in about a month.

    Gonna have to pull all the ingredients together, and do a batch.

    Now you've done it. [:0]

    (Some of that red chili dust you sent me, will be in it 505.) [:D]
  • Options
    gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    gunnut, there is no hard and fast agreement over the spelling, but I will concede that "chile" is probably better for the pepper, and "chili" for the stew.

    I will not address your barbaric and uninformed comments about the stew...which is a divine commingling of meat, peppers, and spices.



    Anything containing vast amounts of cumin can not be called divine, even by a barbarian from Texas. Come on down Rocky, 505 and I will get you some truly divine food. Huevos Rancheros to die for with green (of course) chile.[:)]


    505 see you at gun check.


    Hear, hear!
    Cumin and cilantro are both the Devil's Weed!

    Might wanna check me comin' out[;)]
  • Options
    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm okay with a modicum of cumin. Cilantro, however, has a faint soapy flavor to me - pretty unpleasant. And it seems to be the fad garnish of the moment; they put it on or in everything.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Options
    BikerBobBikerBob Member Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rocky - don't let Armalite know you think cilantro may be a bit of a fad, it could change his entire spring planting plans!
  • Options
    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cilantro is Mexican, coming out of Sonoran cooking. It is indeed faddish in its spread to everything. Best in Salsa I think.
  • Options
    skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431
    edited November -1
    Now I want some chili and I'm stuck in MN. Doh!

    Trade someone for some fish balls in white sauce with boiled potatoes and lefse.
























    crickets...
  • Options
    CoolhandLukeCoolhandLuke Member Posts: 7,825 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a hot pepper junky [:p]
    We have to fight so we can run away.
    Capt. Jack Sparrow.
  • Options
    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Skicat, meet me in Tulsa next month and I will bring Chili, Red or Green? (the official state question of New Mexico) You would have to leave that other stuff at home though.
Sign In or Register to comment.