Very Bland

Nasty. Don’t buy this. SAMs should stop selling it. Burnt taste with hard bits throughout the scraps of dark meat chicken. Also tough sausage.

If you are from Louisiana or the deep south for that matter, don't waste your money. I made the mistake of purchasing this "gumbo" because we were craving it and I just didn't have the time to make a homemade batch. I followed the directions on the box. Once we tried it, I knew I had messed up and I'm kicking myself for taking the easy route. This is not gumbo by any means. It had no flavor at all. The meat was bland as well and seriously lacking. I had already told my family we were having gumbo for dinner and they were so excited! It took me two hours to doctor it up enough for us to eat. I added more chicken, an entire sausage, an entire container of chicken broth, onions, celery salt, garlic powder, onion powder, hot sauce, and gumbo file. I also seasoned the meat with Tony's. It was edible at this point. I will never make the mistake of trying to take the easy route again! Lesson learned!!

The taste is not what you would expect with a gumbo. Bland and tasteless. The photo on the box makes you think there is tender pieces of white meat chicken, but there was only hunks of dark meat. I also discovered that this does not come with rice. It is just really soupy chicken and sausage. I ended up returning to the store.

This is probably one of the worst things I've ever tried. Once brought up to temperature and out of the bag, it didn't smell good. You can smell the roux, which smelled like it burned. The gumbo itself of course tasted bitter and burnt. I took one bite and threw it out. Neither of my parents bothered to try it because of how it smelled. Disappointing because I was excited about trying this gumbo.

Utterly disgusting. It's rude to call this gumbo. The roux tastes bitter and burnt and the meat is low quality.The sausage is chopped too thin and has lost all structure in the freezing process. Very disappointed. I thought Sam's had higher expectations. Stay away!

I was looking forward to this but as soon as I opened the bag, I was very disappointed. It has a burnt smell to it and after one spoonful, I threw it away. It has a bad after taste, rather bitter and the burnt smell lingers. The sausage didn’t taste good, maybe it loses flavor during the freezing process. I have eaten many different gumbos from homemade to commercially prepared and this is the first time I’ve ever thrown anything away. Very disappointed!

This product was NOT made by anyone who has ever lived in Louisiana !! I must give them some credit, I measured about 1/8 cup of "meat" appearing stuff in one package. If I had not added rice and my own shrimp to this, NO FLAVOR at all!! Rather tastes like dirty water! I will NEVER waste my money on this product or any made by this company for fear of the same disasterous results. Sooo glad I did not serve to company, I would have been shamed for trying to poison them.

This doesn't qualify for 1 star. It is 90% colored water with little flavor. There are a few scraps of chicken and thin slices of sausage. It should NEVER be sold in the South where we have REAL gumbo.

This had a very strong burnt taste. I gave the 2nd bag to a friend who said the same thing. This could have been a bad batch but I will never try it again.