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Oh no doubt.

 

I agree with bjorn about Polk. Also add the Mexican-American War and Manifest Destiny to the list of Polk's chili accomplishments.

I love it when you talk history.

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Yeah, but his chili sucked ass.

 

I disagree. Considering he had false teeth, he was probably forced to rely on liquid-based foods such as chili. Indeed, his kickass chili is probably the only thing that kept many of his soldiers alive during the harsh winter at Valley Forge.

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When I was in 5th grade, my Social Studies teacher used to make us play this game called "4 corners". It was a memory game. All students were required to write down a person in history on a piece of paper to which was collected in a hat. Each piece of paper was then read aloud, and the class was divided into 4 groups (one in each corner of the room). The object of the game was for each team, during their turn, to "steal" people from other teams by calling out the names that remembered were read from the hat. If no one remembered who you put in the hat, you got out of some bs homework assignment. Anyways...I won the game by writing "Millard Fillmore" on my slip. Little did I know that he would have such a successful soap-on-the-rope product years later. So, once again, I'm writing "Millard Fillmore" on my slip, for the hat.

 

My favorite hot lunch in 5th grade was the chiliburger with tater tots, btw.

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The correct answer is Calvin Coolidge. Most think that his nickname, "Silent Cal," was due to his quiet nature, but it is in fact a reference to his silent but deadly farts that followed every chili cookoff.

I am acquainted with one of his descendants. Good dude, but doesn't strike me as a chili guy. There's a family recipe for baked beans (true story), which may be the source of the SBDs you reference.

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Ok, this has NOTHING to do with chili but I thought it was pretty damn funny stuff.

 

The 5 Most Badass Presidents in U.S. History

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-mos...s-all-time.html

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Ok, this has NOTHING to do with chili but I thought it was pretty damn funny stuff.

 

The 5 Most Badass Presidents in U.S. History

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-mos...s-all-time.html

Good list. I particularly like Old Hickory's quote:

"I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun."

 

And John Q. Adams' quote works great if you say it aloud in Mr. Potter's (from It's a Wonderful Life, whom he uncannily looks like in the photo) voice:

"The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention."

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First of all I loved the Cracked article, great stuff. In terms of the Chili cookoff I could see Nixon having people break into the other president's houses and stealing their recipes beforehand, and therefore kicking ass the cookoff. However, I'm sure someone would catch wind of this and confront Tricky Dicky leading him to say "I'm a not a cook." Or something along those lines...

 

--Mike

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First of all I loved the Cracked article, great stuff. In terms of the Chili cookoff I could see Nixon having people break into the other president's houses and stealing their recipes beforehand, and therefore kicking ass the cookoff. However, I'm sure someone would catch wind of this and confront Tricky Dicky leading him to say "I'm a not a cook." Or something along those lines...

 

--Mike

:lol Excellent.

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