On chili:
chili full of beans (a la bean soup) sucks. It sucks. Beans should not be the main component. (Beans in every spoonful)
chili with beans in it is good. Some beans. Let's say a bean in 50% of spoonfuls.
chili with no beans is good. Meat is the solo star. Yes, please. Call it what you want, but it's not worse without beans.