Even though he is strictly a product of New Jersey, the Spouse has always been 100% Lone Star when it comes to his chili. He became even more of a chili snob once he got onto the chili cookoff trail and started hanging out with folks named Big Jim (Hog's Breath Chili), Doc (Secret Remedy Chili), and most tellingly, Tarantula Jack (famous for his Thundering Herd Buffalo Tail Chili. I am not making this up). They would spend hours drinking beer and doing shots and debating the merits of different kinds of chili peppers and whether granulated garlic was better than whole garlic cloves for competition purposes because you could control the amount down the the last obididdy and so on. About the only thing that would break up these discussions was when it came time to judge the Miss Chili Pepper contest. Go figure.

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