From: TexasTrish Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:22:02 EST Subject: Re: One Texan's version of Real Chili To: anglican@list.stsams.org pineden writes: >"Five-way chili" isn't a Chicago invention, AFAIK...it's from Cincinnati. Now, if you really want to know how to serve chili -- You go to a high school football game and order a chili pie. They hand you a bag of Fritos (tm) ripped open on top, onto which they have poured chili, grated cheese, and chopped onions. Oh my. Heavenly. Pooks ------------------------------------ From: Bob Tomlinson I'm with you here Pooks. Chili Pie and Football. Well at least it's chili season. Bob T ------------------------------------ From: "P. Dan Brittain" At 03:22 PM 02/07/2002 -0500, Pooks wrote: >Now, if you really want to know how to serve chili -- That's the way I had it when much younger. Too expensive to serve that way nowadays. My band's concession uses those small paper boats, and generic corn chips gotta maximize the profit). We do use a good quality frozen chili from Sam's (and it has NO beans). Grated cheese is better, but we use a ladle of nacho cheese since it's one less thing to maintain on hand and one less thing for the server's hands to touch, gloves or not). Too little profit in serving the really good green chili. I actually am getting fairly good at concession planning. Dan Brittain Berryville, Arkansas ------------------------------------ From: "Ken Peck" At 03:22 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, TexasTrish@aol.com wrote: >You go to a high school football game and order a chili pie. You don't have to go to a high school football game. You can get that concoction at the Dallas Opera! I attended a dreadful production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro last night. The singing and orchestra was good (more than good if one considers the horrible acoustics of the Fair Park Music Hall). But I wish they would bring out the stage director, scenic designer, costume designer and lighting designer afterwards so we could shout "boo" and throw rotten eggs and tomatos and Frito Pies and canned spinach at them. The stage director did Alban Berg's Wozzeck here last year. The costumes for that production came from Army Surplus; and the costumes for last night seemed to be leftovers from that production or else purchased at Good Will. No, Good Will has more tasteful clothes. The set was on a tilted stage (how singers and sing and act without fearing they will slide into the orchestra pit, I can't imagine). It consisted of a semi-circle with 13 pink doors through which singers and chorus kept popping in and out (with some difficulty keeping the doors shut because of the slant). In the third act, Don Basilio, acted as doorman, opening and closing the "appropriate" doors for entries and exits. Over each door was a light that was sometimes on, sometimes off and sometimes blinking for no apparent reason. Besides the set, the only things on the stage during the first two acts were a metal chair and a rollaway bed. Those were replaced in the third and fourth acts with eight settees. Most of the time the singers where frozen in some pose, rarely interacting with anyone else on stage. One of the chorus members for some reason carried a French flag; at the end of the third act, Don Basilo grabs the French flag and runs into down the aisles yelling "Viva la revolution!" (Yeh, I know a French play set in Spain made into an Italian opera by an Austrian. It was international: a Texian production, conducted by a Frenchman, with an Italian Figaro, a Greek Susanna, a Polish count, an American countess, ....) Anyway, I spent most of the evening with my eyes closed listen to the divine Mozart and trying to forget the sights on the stage. ------------------------------------ From: TexasTrish kenpeck@worldlogon.com writes: Anyway, I spent most of the evening with my eyes closed listen to the divine Mozart and trying to forget the sights on the stage. Thanks for the warning. I actually had considered going, myself ... Oy. Pooks