Green with envy: New Mexico chile wins menu spot at Denver’s Coors Field

 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis isn’t conceding defeat in the so-called Chile War with New Mexico, but he may be in need of a napkin to lick his wounds after tasting defeat in a story that literally comes out of left field.

A concession stand on the outfield concourse near the left field foul pole at Coors Field in Denver sells a variety of sausages, including a Hatch green chile and cheese bratwurst. To elbow in on territory in Colorado’s state capital where the home team is called the Colorado Rockies amounts to a squeeze play victory for New Mexico chile. But Polis refuses to surrender his claim that chile grown in Pueblo, Colorado, is somehow superior to that grown south of his state’s border

“The chile wars continue and the chile to our south remains an inferior chile,” Polis insisted in a statement to the Journal. “Anyone is free to serve whatever they’d like and we urge them to serve the best chile in the world: the Pueblo chile.”

Colorado and New Mexico have been engaged in a friendly competition over who grows the best chile in the world for some time now. The dispute heated up after New Mexico started issuing licence plates declaring the state more than just the “Land of Enchantment,” but also the “Chile Capital of the World.”...MORE