Silver Plunger

"This is assigned to the rookie chili chef or the grand experimenter whose chili fails all qualities of being a chili or just taste like shit."

Here's the thing! We may have won the Silver Plunger award for our kick ass chili, but I think people just don't know good chili when it bites them in the ass. Howie, the owner of Cool Beans, said that this is the first year that the person who won the Silver Plunger came with in two votes of winning Numero Uno also.

Here's what I think happened! We got there early. At about 4:30 which is when Korby told us we needed to be there to enter a chili. We were the fourth entry. So everyone started trying out chili and really liked it. A bunch of people kept going back for more and said how tasty it was. By the end of the first quarter our chili was all gone. It was the only chili that was all gone. And it was in my huge crock pot. So I think that all the people that were there early, voted for us. When their friends showed up, they told them to try it and it was all gone so they voted it the Silver Plunger since they did not get to try it! That's how I see it anyways!! How else would you explain such an awesome chili not winning!

So, Here is Peter accepting our Silver Plunger form Saint. We didn't get to keep it, he just signed it and gave it back for next year. We did get $20 Cool Bean bucks and a portable grill and a really awesome chili recipe that I am going to make again soon. So not a total loss.

Ok, I know what you are thinking! That I am bias because we made this chili. Let me tell you a little story about some of the previous attempts we have made a chili. Once Peter decided that he was going to throw all the pepper and vegetables in the blender in order to chop them up. Basically he puree it and dumped it in the crock pot and added canned chili. I was iffy to try it, but took one bite and project-tiled vomited, as did Peter. That was a fail.

Then I tried to make chili once using a recipe my Nanny gave me, but the beans turned out crunchy and the meat was to greasy. That was a fail.

So when I say this chili was actually good, I mean it!

Also, I just remember, I won a back massage to because I bet Peter when he first started talking about this that he would win the Silver Plunger. Granted I was thinking about the puree chili when I said that, but never the less, I will take my back massage now!