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Originally Posted by JerryLBell

Chili's has been around for 50 years and I've eaten at them a LOT of times at a LOT of locations over the years. Several years ago they changed their chili recipe and it went (for me, anyway) from "OK" to "Pretty Darned Good". It's not Texas-chili-cookoff-super-hot and it's not bland-bean-soup-with-some-beef (I'm looking at YOU, Texas Roadhouse on 441, despite other decent dishes!) but it's pretty, pretty good. I have had it basically every time I've gone to Chili's since then.

Today, we went to Chili's and I ordered a meal combo with a bowl of chili on the side. I was told they don't do that anymore. So I dropped the meal combo and went with a bowl of chili. I was told that, no, they don't actually make chili anymore. At all. WTF? Going to Chili's and not being able to get chili is like going to Burger King and being told they don't actually make burgers anymore (except that their burgers aren't very good to begin with - I should really come up with a better analogy)!

I am outraged! But mostly sad. I'm going to make a big ole' honkin' pot of chili tomorrow and drown my sorrows in it. And I don't see myself going back to Chili's for a long time, despite the restaurant being clean and nice, the service good, the prices OK and all that. They just killed the differentiator that brought be into to their restaurants versus all the other choices out there.

P.S. - The chili at World of Beer, while completely different from that at Chili's, is Really Quite Good. Don't suggest Wendy's for chili - they make vegetable soup out of leftover burgers. Same goes for some of the country clubs here.

Well, that's all just my opinion. That and a nickel will buy you... not much of anything anymore, I guess!

Weird. I just went to the website and they have both bowl and cup of chili listed on the menu. They use the chili to make the queso dip too. It would be very very strange for them to take that off the menu since they have every ingredient already supplied.