Your NM friends have better Spanish than anyone else in this thread. Meanwhile, my fellow Texans have famously bastardized “chile con carne” to refer to spicy

Your NM friends have better Spanish than anyone else in this thread. Meanwhile, my fellow Texans have famously bastardized “chile con carne” to refer to spicy beef stew, and would tend to specify “chili pepper” to refer to the actual fruit itself.