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Beyoncé fans who bought Mama Tina Knowles’ seafood gumbo at the Houston Rodeo are expressing their disappointment.

Mama Tina brought a huge pot of her famous gumbo to the Houston Rodeo. “You need to try it,” she told a blogger on Tuesday. “It’s sort of like a soup. I think I would liken it to bouillabaisse base but it’s better.”

Tina told FOX 26 reporter Nate Griffin that cooking gumbo “is a very tedious process.” She said it takes 15-20 hours to cook one pot of her gumbo and the ingredients are very expensive.

“It’s just a hybrid of things that make it a wonderful taste,” she told Griffin.

Mama Tina said “Everybody’s been wanting to try my gumbo! I’ve been making gumbo for forty-something years!”

But fans expressed their disappointment after shelling out $25-$30 for a cup of Mama Tina’s gumbo at the rodeo in Houston.

Some people said the taste was Ok but it was too watery. Others said the gumbo was “nasty” and too expensive.

One fan shared a video of herself picking empty shrimp shells out of a large styrofoam cup. She urged fans to try the gumbo for themselves.

One man assured fans that he is a true Beyoncé fan – before he went on to trash Mama Tina’s gumbo.

X user @wya__hoe wrote: “Ain’t a day in history where anybody looked at Tina and thought ‘I know that bish be throwing DOWN in the kitchen chile.'”

X user @MinajMyDollas commented: “Not she selling yall Shrimp Shells & Boiled Water.”

But a mother and daughter traveled to Houston just to meet Mama Tina and sample her gumbo. They were very happy with their experience.