Viva Terlingua! Traditional Cache
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A magnetic container placed in front of the only store near Terlingua Texas...and the namesake of the original "Behind the store" chili cookoff. Placed at this location with the owners permission.
Prior to 1967, Terlingua, Texas, was an abandoned mercury-mining town near the Mexican border, about as far from anything else as it could get. But that year, humorist H. Allen Smith published an article in the New York Times titled, "Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do," which included his recipe for chili with beans. A response came back from Wick Fowler, a Dallas newspaperman whose hobby was cooking chili, that if you knew beans about chili, you knew chili didn't have beans.
A showdown between the two men was arranged in remote Terlingua - the first chili cookoff ever - and the winner was to be crowned the world chili champion. Though the contest ended in a tie, the event was a wild success, and Terlingua was deemed the "Chili Capitol of the World." Annual cookoffs have been held there ever since.
In fact, as a result of a split between the original contest organizers, each year on the first Saturday in November there are two international chili championships in the town-the Terlingua International Chili Championship, and the Original Terlingua International Chili Cookoff.
I go to the original "behind the store" cookoff every year and have a great time. If you find this cache during working hours, go in a say HI to Delia and her family...very nice people!
Viva Teringua!
Congratulations to Bulky-NM for being FTF!!!
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