Does Mustard Belong On Or In Chili? The Debate Roars In Longview, Texas

Being on the radio in Tyler, Texas, and answering the request lines, you never know what kind of question you are going to get when you hit the button to answer the blinking phone line.

Now I'm not afraid of the question because there's no such thing as a dumb question, but I might not have the answer you're looking for. If you have a question and you don't ask it you'll never know the answer.

As I was scrolling through social media I ran across a question from a Longview closed social group that I am a member and someone posted the question asking,

is 'adding mustard to chili a Texas thing?'

The guy posing the question is apparently new to Texas and Longview and when his friend told him about it he wanted to know if it was true or if she was just messing with him.

Well, it didn't take long for the comments to roll in. In a matter of hours, more than 200 comments and replies were made.

He's not the only one though in Longview that has never heard about this but a lot of people are doing it too. Now I haven't ever added mustard to chili, but when you read some of the comments, we're doing it already, especially when we have a chili dog!

It's wild that this showed up on my feed because I was in a discussion in the radio station break room recently and someone asked us to name a food combination that we do, but others find weird or offensive. Just like mustard in chili, these responses brought on a debate between our co-workers.

Weird food combinations were mentioned by the staff of the radio station.

• Butter in salsa
• Ketchup on eggs
• Ketchup on steak
• Wendy's Frosty and fries
• Cheddar cheese on apple pie
• Peanut butter on a hamburger
• Melted cheese on ramen noodles
• Avacado mixed with chocolate
• Popcorn and milk

To be honest I had never heard of peanut butter on a burger until I was on vacation in Steamboat Springs with my family a year or so ago. We were at a local burger joint they had a peanut butter burger on the menu so we gave it a shot and it ended up being one of the best burgers we had in a while.

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EDIT: This was originally published on July 31, 2024.