Since we got onto the chili vs chile thing... one of my favorite AUTHENTIC FOOD pedant moments happened when
@Irishman's Texas cousin showed up at my homecoming tailgate event. He was the date of one of my friends and he strutted up and asked WHAT U MAKE and I replied "Elk Chili Beans" and he instantly cut me off... "REAL CHILI AIN'T GOT BEANS IT AIN'T GOT BEANSSS"
I stared at him for a second and then stared at my chili beans to confirm that there were in fact beans in there... then I realized what was happening! So I replied "Well I can see beans in there, but if you can't see them you must have glitched in from a different version of the simulation? Does the crock pot appear empty to you? Are there holes in space/time where the beans should be? Well that's a shame that you won't be able to eat with us." Then later I caught him trying to eat some of my chili beans because he was probably hungry, but of course I made a big deal about it not being reality for him so it could rupture the universe divide if someone from his version of the sim attempted to consume the shadow realm beans. It might have seemed rude of me, but that's the sort of thing that causes ULAMOG THE CEASELESS HUNGER to enter your plane of existence.
Then, as if meeting a sim-walker wasn't enough strangeness for one day, I went to take a piss at the porta-potty and saw a man pointing at hisself yelling "WOOF WOOOFF WOOOOOF!" My fragile mind snapped.