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The fence the “chili heads” used was constructed by undocumented Mexican workers who labored annually for the Cook-Off organizers at $5 a day plus meals and rustic lodging. [26] Among the founders of the first chili cookoff in 1967 was car manufacturer Carroll Shelby, who owned a 220,000-acre (890 km 2) ranch nearby. [27]
It originated in San Marcos, Texas at Aquarena Springs, but in 1974, was relocated to its permanent headquarters at the Hays County Civic Center, also in San Marcos. The event was a competition of chili cooking. Winners of the contest automatically qualified for the World Championship Chili Cookoff at Terlingua, Texas. [1]
The World Championship Chili Cookoff at Terlingua began as a tongue-in-cheek challenge between Fowler and humorist H. Allen Smith in 1967 and has become a November tradition, celebrated across the state and nation.
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Clarksville, New Hampshire chili cook-off in 2008 Engineering students at chili cook-off, University of Texas at Arlington, 1983. A chili cook-off is a social event, similar to a barbecue, in which competitors prepare their own particular recipe for chili con carne and submit it for taste testing. A cook-off may be an informal gathering with ...
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The 40th annual Belleville Chili Cook-Off takes place 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12. The event is free to attend and open to the public.
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [474] Telico: Ellis [475] Tennyson: Coke [476] Terlingua: Brewster: Former ghost town that came back to life with its annual chili cook-off. 2000 population was 267. [477] Texana: Jackson: No longer exists, but was significant during the 1835–36 Texas Revolution ...