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History
Chili's in Santa Clara, California                                   

Chili's first location, a converted postal station on Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Texas, opened in 1975 (this location moved to a new building near the same site in 1981, and was shut down in 2007).[3] Lavine's concept was to create an informal, full-service dining restaurant with a menu featuring different types of hamburgers offered at an affordable price. The brand proved successful, and by the early 1980s there were 28 Chili's locations in the region, all featuring similar Southwest decor.[4]

In 1983, Lavine sold the company to restaurant executive Norman E. Brinker, formerly of the Pillsbury restaurant group that owned Bennigans.[4] Chili's now has locations in 49 U.S. states (excludes Alaska), 30 international locations and two territories.

Advertising

"Chili's (Welcome to Chili's!)" is an advertising jingle used in Chili's Restaurant commercials to advertise the restaurant's line of baby back ribs. The ad features a doo-wop quartet singing a cappella. The song was written by Guy Bommarito and produced by Tom Faulkner Productions for GSD&M Advertising of Austin, Texas. Faulkner sings both "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back...", as well as the melodic theme. The deep "Bar-B-Q Sauce" was sung by famed New York bass vocalist, Willie McCoy. Advertising Age magazine named the song first on its list of "10 songs most likely to get stuck in your head" in 2004.^[6]
In 2008, the chain aired parody ads for "P. J. Bland's", a fictional restaurant chain with cardboard foods.^[7]



About The Bhut Jolokia
Growing our first Bhut Jolokia chili pepper.

About a year ago, I first heard of the Bhut Jolokia, and the amount of heat this chili pepper naturally contains. I started to read more and more about this super-hot chili pepper. I thought the Habanero to be the world's hottest chili pepper, but I soon found out otherwise. The pepper has different names from country to country, but the origin is from Asia. It's Trinomial name is: Capsicum Chinese 'Naga Jolokia'. After seeing a flurry of videos on You Tube about the daring humans crazy enough to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia I decided to find some peppers for us on line. My search was on and I came across a lot of small companies bottling their own versions of Bhut Jolokia hot sauces. The names of some of these sauces are hilariously funny, but clever to say the least. Most of Bhut Jolokia hot sauces come with a disclaimer attached to the bottle.

Upon searching for the Bhut Jolokia chili peppers I came across a plant nursery selling the plants online. Wow! I must get this plant was my first thought. I figured since my husband is very good with plants and really loves to care for them, we could grow this plant ourselves. I will be the first to admit that I don't have a green thumb. I ordered the plant and it arrived two days later. We opened the package with great anticipation and excitement. There before us was this little plant about six inches tall. My husband's reaction was that it was September in Chicago so we cannot plant it outside until late spring. We also read that the amount of humidity will affect how hot our peppers will be. Well the plant has been growing indoors very well with our other house plants and I am happy to say growing bigger each day. I will post more here from time to time about our journey to grow our first Bhut Jolokia chili pepper.