Should beans of any kind be in a Chilli?

Should beans of any kind be in a Chilli?
Lets hear from the chilli purists out there, beans or not?

I love beans in chili but I love chili without them too. I'm all inclusive on chili, one way or the other if fine with me.

AS a purist no....But in my part of the country good luck finding chili without beans. I will eat either. I grew up with beans, make mine with beans cause almost everyone I know prefers it that way.

To me, chilli without beans is just chunky tomato soup.:)

According to this: Chili con carne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia beans weren't originally part of the chili con carne.

I grew up with beans in chili but the best chili I've had was cooked with the beans separate and then the chili was poured over beans in the bowl. I asked the man why he did so and he said cooking it with the beans changed the flavor and by controlling the blend was he best way to do it.

Yes, Chili Beans !!!
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One of my favorite recipes calls for no beans. It's amazing stuff but I don't make it too often as I have to order some of the powders online. But most of the time I use beans. Makes it go farther. Occasionally I like to blaspheme and skip the beans and make it a little thin and then pour it over rice.

I like kidney beans myself. Got a buddy at work and he made chili once with like 20 cans of different beans......It was a boisterous afternoon......

I'm poly-bean-erous, I suppose. Some recipes call for beans, some don't. To me, it's all good. I grew my own chilies for the first time this year. Nice, but a little mild for supposedly "hot" chilies (cayenne peppers). Next year I'll put a couple of different varieties in, I think. Home grown jalapenos sound pretty good right now.