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Reader: Your Green Chile List Is a Bunch of Yuppie Bullshit

Last week we dished up our 2015 edition of Denver's top ten green chiles — and the comments have been coming fast and furious. Mostly furious. Says Sean: Any Colorado list (much less Denver) of top green chiles is not a list without Chubby's. For shame. Adds Elissa: Sacrilege that Jack-n-Grill...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Last week we dished up our 2015 edition of Denver’s top ten green chiles – and the comments have been coming fast and furious. Mostly furious. Says Sean:

Any Colorado list (much less Denver) of top green chiles is not a list without Chubby’s. For shame.

Adds Elissa:

Sacrilege that Jack-n-Grill isn’t on this list.

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Says Rogers:

This is bullshit. Santiago’s green chile blows and Las Delicias has the best green chili in the country

And then there’s this from Joseph:

Bullshit. Bunch of yuppy chile.

Read our list here. Do you think Chubby’s deserves a place on it? Jack-n-Grill? Las Delicias? What’s your favorite green chile in Denver?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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