- Capitol Punishment
- 1980 & 1982 ICS World's Chili Champions
- 1985 ICS World's Chili Champion
- Speaking of chili aficionados, let us tell you a little bit about the "International Chili Society", which is currently headquartered in Las Vegas Nevada, Texas chili cook-offs, which started in the late 60’s when H. Allen Smith wrote an article, "I Cook the Best Damned Chili in Texas". Wick Fowler, issued an open challenge to Smith and the first cook-off was held in Terlingua Texas.
- Other chili fans heard about the cook-off and decided to get involved, the most prominent being C. V. Wood. Woody was responsible for moving the London Bridge to Arizona, building Disneyland and designing the San Antonio Riverwalk.
- According to Woody his claim to fame was marrying Joanne Drew, who made more movies with John Wayne than any other actress.
Woody won the Terlingua cook-off twice and flew others (Carroll Shelby, marching bands, beauty queens, etc.) to Terlingua, which is not known as the end of the earth – it’s 50 miles from there! Woody and Shelby decided to hold a cook-off in a location that wasn’t so remote and started their own organization, the ICS, at the Balboa Bay Club in California.
- The ICS started to grow and "World Championship" cook-offs became a celebrity extravaganza attended by Robert Mitchem, Rory Calhoun, Barry Goldwater, Ernest Borgnine, Dale Robertson, Peter Marshall and countless others –
- all chili lovers! Chill Wills was the official ICS master of cermonies until his death in 1978.
- Our family got started in the late 70’s winning a contest
- using the family recipe in Reno, Nevada, sponsored by Circus Circus. Our chili literally changed the way chili was cooked in the ICS in that most California chili was like a stew, with celery and bell peppers.