Anyone can throw onion, garlic, spices and red beans into a pot and hope for the best. Some actually do. But no one can put ingredients together like the Chilli Man, Joe DeFrates. He's the only person to have won a world championship in Tropico, California (1975) and international championship cook-off in Terlingua, Texas (1973).

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Water, beef, beans, spices, textured soy protein (soy flour, caramel color), oats, tomato paste, food starch-modified, onion powder, salt, garlic powder, monosodium glutamate.

 

 

Heat and Serve.