Chili Head

Someone who likes chili is called a “chili head.” The Chili Appreciation Society (now the Chili Appreciation Society International, or CASI) began in the 1960s, and George Haddaway of Dallas was its “Chief Chili Head.”  The CASI popularized the term “chili head” and possibly coined it.
 
 
Chili Appreciation Society International 
The Chili Appreciation Society International, Inc.‘s mission is to promote chili and raise money for charity. We are involved in over 500 chili cookoffs per year and raise over $1,000,000.00 annually for local charities.

In addition to raising funds for charitable organizations in the United States and participating foreign countries, we seek to educate the public about the historic and cultural significance of chili - an indigenous American tradition. We are working for the adoption of chili as the National Food of the United States.

Annually, the Chili Appreciation Society International sanctions over 500 cookoffs that raises over $1,000,000.00 for charity. Corporate CASI, which has the function of sanctioning all of these cookoffs, doing the necessary work to tabulate cookoff results, and putting on the annual Terlingua International Chili Championship, has an annual income of approximately $250,000.00. Out of this annual income, not only were we able to cover all of the associated costs and expenses of the TICC, but we were able to contribute close to $60,000.00 to charity. Keep in mind that CASI is a 501(c)(3) corporation, which means that we have no compensated officers or employees. This allows us to channel all of our excess profits to charity.
   
12 February 1962, Dallas Morning News, “Hot Chili Saved This Girl’s Life” by Frank X. Tolbert, section 4, pg. 1:
Note to George Haddaway, chief chili head of the Chili Appreciation Society:...
 
30 June 1963, Chicago Tribune, “Texas Chili Experts Help Its Lovers Far and Near” by Jack N. Fallon, pg. A1:
Chief Chili Head George Haddaway of Dallas, who spreads the lore of chili, ordered the Chili Appreciation society [International] to the rescue.
 
17 May 1964, Los Angeles Times, pg. Y28:
There is, if you haven’t heard, a Chili Appreciation Society (International). It has a local chapter. And I have just become a member in good standing, bearing Card T-69. The Chief Chili Head is George Haddaway; Chief Taster, Peg Hereford.
 
14 August 1966, Chicago Tribune, “How about a bowl of chili?” by Robert Cromie, pg. P4:
Despite the definition of chili found in a modern Mexican dictionary which calls it “a detestable dish sold from Texas to New York City and erroneously described as Mexican”—there are plenty of “chili heads” thruout the world, including Harry James, President and Mrs. lyndon B. Johnson, and Elizabeth Taylor, THE Elizabeth Taylor.
 
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Word Mark CHILI APPRECIATION SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
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