Rant: My coworker swore butter makes everything taste better on a budget, but my $1.50 chili experiment says otherwise

Ivan Grant · 2026-10-10T13:20:02.683204+00:00

Last week my coworker Beth told me that adding a spoon of butter to cheap canned chili would make it taste like a $12 bowl from a restaurant. I tried it on my $1.50 can of store brand chili and honestly it just tasted like greasy soup. The butter did not hide the tinny flavor at all, it just made the texture weird. Tbh I think she was thinking of adding butter to tomato sauce, not chili. I ended up eating it with rice to stretch it out and it was still pretty bad. Has anyone else tried this trick and had it work, or did I just pick the wrong can?

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