Chili con carne the word "chile" from the Nahuatl "chīlli" refers to a "chili pepper", and "carne" is Spanish for "meat". A recipe dating back to the 1850s describes dried beef, suet, dried chili peppers and salt, which were pounded together, formed into bricks and left to dry, which could then be boiled in pots on the trail. Chili originated from what is now northern Mexico and southern Texas. Unlike some other Texas foods, such as barbecued brisket, which is associated with white men, chili largely originated with working-class Tejana and Mexican women. The chili queens of San Antonio, Texas were particularly famous
Hot and sour soup peppers or white pepper, and sour by vinegar. In Japan, ramen noodles are usually added to hot and sour soup to make "suratan-men" (or "sanratan-men") or "hot and sour soup noodles". In India, this soup is made with red and green chillies, ginger, carrots, snow peas, tofu, soy sauce, rice vinegar and a pinch of sugar. It is viewed in India as being a Chinese soup. Hot and sour soup is usually made in Pakistan with chicken, carrots, cabbage, corn flour, eggs, vinegar, chili, soya sauce and salt. It may also contain bean sprout and capsicum. "Samlor machu pkong" or