Deadly serious and not at all lighthearted: Baked beans in Chile con Carne - yay or nay?

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Yes!
I hate both kidney beans and lumps of cooked tomato so I use baked beans and tomato purée or passata

Red kidney beans every time here, and a couple of squares of plain chocolate too.

NO

No way

No, absolutely not. What have you been taking tonight to think this is ok in any way.

Nay !

Sometimes!

If I don’t have kidney beans or black beans then I’ll use them, chilli with no beans is not right.

But otherwise, no

Now baked beans in cottage pie - now you’re talking!

My ex used to do this. Smelled lovely but I wasn’t for eating it. (Anaphylactic allergy to beans)

There should be no beans in chilli at all

No that is an abomination. As are baked beans in cottage pie or shepherds pie

Yes. Beans are beans. All other opinions are snobbery. (Is that divisive enough!?)

No! Sacrilege

Sure, if they’re the only beans I have in. I rinse them in a sieve and pop them in.

Baked beans in chilli? And we wonder why foreigners laugh at British food....

@AgeLikeWine

Baked beans in chilli? And we wonder why foreigners laugh at British food....

Nah, it's adapting to circumstances and it's a good thing.

You can use peanut butter for hummus if you're out of tahini, too. Works just fine in a pinch.

We were a baked bean free household when I was growing up.

The reason was shrouded in mystery, my mother merely hinted there had been "A Baked Bean Related Incident" when she was younger and they would never be appearing on our menu thank you very much.

After a long personal struggle I've shaken off my early conditioning to an extent and can accept a fry up avec beans. Not in chili.

But my partner insists baked beans are a mandatory chili ingredient.

So round these parts there are two separate chili pots on the stove come chili night. And he has to do the washing up.

Should I LTB?

Definatly, I always put in a tin of kidney beans and half a tin of baked beans. My mom did the same.

Do you remember the Heinz baked bean cuisine years ago? They did a pasta with cheese sauce, peas and baked beans which sounds rank but I loved.

Baked beans go with loads of things.

It’s a bastardised version. Definitely not chilli with baked beans. I like baked beans. I like chilli. Baked beans do not go in chilli.

BLOODY HELL THIS THREAD NEEDS A TRIGGER WARNING!

No. No no no no no NO!

I'm going for a lie down.

YES! I am allergic to kidney beans.

It’s a definite no! I had to make a mild chilli recently and used baked beans. It’s what evil must taste like!

NO!

I'm Texan and beans and minced beef have no place in "chile con carne", which to me, is sent to us in Texas from heaven.

However, I live with my English husband and he eats his "chilli" with mince and beans and because he's worth keeping despite that insanity, I'll tolerate it.

I'd rethink our relationship if he ever suggested BAKED beans. Y'all have already desecrated my beloved chile but baked beans makes y'all dirty bastards!