The tests covered a range of frozen, chilled or canned products that included lasagne, chilliconcarne, cottage pie, ravioli, cannelloni and spaghetti bolognese.
You wouldn't want to call it a silver lining to the crowds queuing solemnly outside the Alamo, but the day Davy Crockett and his men died was the day chilliconcarne was born.
Throw those cultural ingredients into the pot, simmer for 40 years, and you have the first confirmed sighting of chilliconcarne - cooked up on Alamo Plaza in the 1880s by street vendors who became known as the chilli queens.