The Annual Chili Cook-Off is an outdoor food and dining event in Springfield.
At the Cook-Off, Springfielders can set up their own stall and sell their own chili to event goers. The Cook-Off also has square dancing sessions and various other food stalls, including a cotton candy machine.
Homer attends the Chili Cook-Off every year, but Marge complained Homer would get drunk and humiliate her, including by taking off his clothes and bathing in a cotton candy machine.
The next year, Marge went to extreme measures to ensure Homer didn't find out about that year's cook-off. But when he smells the chili on the breeze, Marge relents and goes with him, under the condition that Homer stay sober. Homer ultimately managed to keep his promise, although he came very close to breaking it after ingesting chili laced with a psychedelic Guatemalan Insanity Pepper by Clancy Wiggum.
Chili sellers[]
- A Little Bit of Lenny (Doesn't actually sell chili, but sells ingredients and equipment for making it; Helmed by Lenny Leonard);
- Muntz Family Chili: It takes weeks to make Muntz (Helmed by Nelson Muntz);
- Old Elihu's Yale Style Saltpeter Chili (Helmed by Charles Montgomery Burns);
- Professor Frink's Virtual Chili (Helmed by Jonathan Frink)
- Firehouse Ned's Five Alarm Chili (Helmed by Ned Flanders and his family; though it's revealed to only be two alarm, two and a half alarm tops);
- Moe's Chili Bar (Helmed by Moe Szyslak);
- Chief Clancy Wiggum's tent (In the events of "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer", Wiggum, in large part due to Homer's merciless reviews, proceeded to add to his chili an extra ingredient specifically for Homer, the Guatemalan Insanity Pepper.);
- Beer Garden: Proof of Age or Exact Change Required (Not actually selling chili, but sold beer);
- Joe's Spoons: Hand Waxed (not actually a chili stand, but sells spoons for eating chili).
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