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The History of Chili Cook-Offs
Part Three: The Sixties; Terlingua Cook-Off Grows
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After the 1967 Terlingua chili cook-off, when one of the three judges claimed to be poisoned and the other two judges each voted for a different winner, the contest was called a draw. (In case you missed last month's installment the contestants were Wick Fowler and H.
Allen Smith.)
In 1968, the contest again failed to provide the world with a chili-cooking champion. That contest again featured Wick Fowler as the Texas representative and, when H. Allen Smith came down with a case of the shingles, Wino Woody DeSilva from California was called in as a substitute.
After all the votes were in and the ballot box was being taken to the referee, a masked man with a rifle took the ballot box and threw it down one of the abandoned mine shafts that dot the area. Again, no winner.
I can find no record of De Silva's recipe, other than it contained sweet woodruff, an exotic herb.