If you make it you can call it chili. Hell, you can CALL it anything you want to. It may not be chili but you can call it so if you want. I know folks who call bologna round steak.
As to beans in chili if you like them nothing wrong with adding them to your bowl. Just please don't cook them in with your chili. Cook them separate and add them. One thing chili isn't is vegetable soup or bean stew.
You can add lots of things to your bowl as condiments if it strikes your fancy. Some likes chopped hard boiled egg, some likes cheese, some likes chopped ripe olives, some likes sour cream, some likes chopped avacado.
Just please please don't futz with the basic bowl of red.
Which is fine standing on its own.
BCR
