i had high hopes for this one
oh god
i'm sorry i don't want to hurt nobody's
feeling
i want to be nice
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my name is brianna nicole abrams i'm
originally from new orleans and now i'm
living in los angeles california my name
is irma and i'm born and raised in
eunice louisiana a town two and a half
hours east of new orleans my name is
raquel honore i'm from new orleans
and i live in los angeles growing up in
new orleans it was very family oriented
and very cultural
taking mustaches out of raccoons
picking greens in the backyard whatever
yes
that's me during the springtime that's
when everybody is having crawfish boils
and that's like my favorite time in new
orleans being creole is to me like one
big extended family it has white spanish
haitian you live in certain
neighborhoods and everybody knows each
other everybody's almost related
the secret ingredient in this gumbo is
okra a lot of people don't like okra
but this is the kicker this is what
makes gumbo gumbo
this is actually a secret family recipe
i can't really tell you what's in it but
it's really good i don't make my gumbo
hot i think mine is really flavorful you
can tell it has a lot of love in it you
taste all the spices and different
seasonings because i make sure i pick
good stuff
and then it should be like
you know smooth
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i'm gonna win today
because i put love in my gumbo how can
you lose with that
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um
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this is nice
oh this thing oh yeah
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it has shrimp it's nice it's beautiful
it's a good
set of ingredients okay
this one looks
very unappetizing
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hers is just lighter
i guess she didn't have that much time
to make it this one doesn't look like
they cooked
the sauce long enough just because it's
so white like the sauce should look dark
and this looks like
milk kinda
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i'm
sorry it tastes like chicken noodle soup
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or they they have they made them both
before
i don't know either it just tastes like
shrimp soup like it doesn't taste that
good at all
if i were home i'd be like what's wrong
with the gunpowder
i like that they try they get you know
a for effort
i'm struggling i don't know i don't
think i don't know
this is definitely a person from l.a
yeah
i give this a 3.
she got to be like a second generation
creole
but this yeah this
she wasn't with her mama
i'm gonna say
a four
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i'm gonna win the day because this is
the ball
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okay
this has a lot of meat in it
nice dark gumbo
it smells really good
i usually like less rice but
looks good
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i think the rice kind of overpowers it a
little bit
it's okra gumbo
i like how it's not too spicy but you do
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taste the spices
pretty good pretty good
i think this person's from new orleans
um
because i just want to give everybody
the benefit of the doubt i guess no
i think they're 100 louisiana it tastes
very authentic
so i would
maybe add some more seafood it's kind of
like basic a little bit
but
for somebody who's you know not from new
orleans i guess they would like it i
would give this an eight
i would give this a seven because it's
not too bad
but like i said the rice is definitely
overpowering the flavor
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i'm going to win today because i put a
lot of effort into this i cook this for
about three hours and like i said i used
a family recipe that's secretive so i
feel like i'm gonna win
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okay they didn't separate everything
juicy like i like it
okay it's hard they got something hard
in here
y'all want me to taste it
it looks like it has some some good
ingredients some shrimp some peppers
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oh
this is good
yeah it tastes all right it tastes like
california
california gumbo
i'm digging it
this could be in the box like the tony
sachery
version of this it's got a punch of
flavor
it's got like
you know when you still feel it on your
your tongue and you're like mmm you know
yeah
okay
yeah yeah okay i said i wasn't gonna
talk bad about nobody food
i would give this one a 9 i'm not going
to front i'll give it a 9. i like it
i will rate this a 5.
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i know y'all remember me from the food
chop competition where y'all drilled me
in the comments
now it's real raw right here and i can't
chew no more
well guess what i'm back
today i'm here to try out some louisiana
gumbo and i'm going to give my honey's
opinion y'all know i'm going to tell the
truth and y'all bet not have no corn in
them
okay which one i want to try first
i'ma try this one first
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smells messy
it's giving soup
it has a little flavor but it's not
giving gumbo
i'll give it a 5.
this one looks good i hope it tastes as
good as it looks
no
i don't know what this is but i'll give
it a three
this one
is too white for my liking but
let me swallow this one first hold on
because that one was rough
it's not appealing i'll tell you that
you know it could have used a whole lot
of seasoning don't have no taste to it i
get this one on one
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i'm just so excited that i won and i
knew i was gonna win so this doesn't
really come as a shock or surprise to me
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you