Fish & Chips By Rick Stein DEPLORABLE & DEVASTATINGLY DISAPPOINTING | I Got to Lands End in my EV!
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2022
- Join The MacMaster finally at the end of his Journey in his EV All Electric Car where he has driven from John O'Groats to Lands End. In this episode The MacMaster is at Lands End after 4 days of driving the UK. To Celebrate he takes a short drive to Padstow in Cornwall to review Fish and Chips at Rick Stein's. Rick Stein is a famous Chef and is world renowned so you would expect Fish and Chips by Rick Stein to be the best. However this was not the case and you will be shocked by what was served up.
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£80 quid for a fish and chip meal for a family of four.....Gone are the days of running down to the chippy because we were skint :D
Look matey ! Fuel has tripled and the fisherman needs to be paid then there is Restaurant overhead and wages , best u stick to McD fish burger
Well it is when you go to Rick steins lol
I ' visited' Lands' End briefly a few years ago with the family.
Thought it was outrageous to have to pay to visit somewhere before I'd even got to park! ..turned around Immediately and left...I used to love Padstow as a child, we went there every summer.
Like all these charming little coastal towns, they get ruined by mass tourism and capitalists who rip everyone off..as you rightly said , shameful.
Blaming Capitalists for high prices??? that's rich, in a socialist country where everything is taxed to high hell so the government can give everything away for "free". Moving the burden of paying from those who use the services to everyone who pays taxes. Glad I don't live there!!
I worked at Rick Steins for 4 years in Newquay, I did 2 shifts in Padstow, the were constantly under staffed, the turnover of staff was rediculas. Both the times I went there i hated it, the second time I did it 9am until 11 pm with a 45min break.the staff get treated like crap and genuinely don't care.
That has to be against the law.. you must be allowed at least a lunnc break and then two breaks during the day... otherwise they should be reported to the relevant government authorities
@@1sidsnot Is he German?
I know v little about this but I've tasted proper fish & chips ,UK style!!.
A real treat,done properly!!!!!!! :-)
You have to realise, stein's fish and chips in padstow is just pretentious bollocks for london folk in their range rovers going to Padstow. We ate in and were also underwhelmed. A good indepedent chippie is ALWAYS the way to go....its just about ££££ for Stein
😂😂 That’s me. Was just checking reviews first !
That can’t be legal, you can’t take your own photographs! 😡
£4 for a coffee what a disgrace
Rick Stein relies on tourists going to his fish and chip shop (once) just so they can tell their mates when they get home that "we went to Rick Stein's place" in other words a tourist trap and a very expensive one at that.If I were Rick Stein I would be very very embarrassed watching this, I guess the £££ rolling in matter more!!
Yep exactly that me and 5 freinds went thier tbh I thought the food was mediocre wasn't horrible but was just average but overpriced BUT when we got back to our city my friends were telling everyone they went to RICK STIENS and how nice it was lool they know deep down it was average lool
It doesn't batter that much 😂
I'm a trained chef and have worked an quite a few 5 star resorts here in the USA. May be I should not say this, but most of these celebrity chef restaurants are cook out of a bag. Meaning that things like the mix for the fish is pre made and comes out of a bag. Same with all the sauces probably the mushy peas as well. They are just made to the chef recipe. They do this for consistency.
I 100% agree with you. Always go to the mom and pops restaurants. They are less likely to use out of the bag food stuff as the pre made can be quite costly. I never go to any of these types of restaurants or even chain as they cook from bags as well. I have even worked at some 5 start resorts that had classically trained chefs like myself cooking out of bags. Hell I worked at one where we used Stouffer's frozen Lasagna's for wedding buffets @ $50 usd per plate. So yeah don't fall for the big fancy names. You rarely get you moneys worth. And no I do not cook anymore the industry is a mess right now.
Agree 100% with you.
you're just paying for the name
It's privately owned, so everything is chargeable. Cafe and the restaurant we found ok..
Imagine if every emergency service vehicle was electric? And you dialled 999 and were told sorry “we can’t attend” vehicles on charge.
Would never happen tho would it
Can't really imagine that tbh.
In many places they're already too late with a full tank of petrol...
@@ianm2170 they are human beings mate,
Petrol/Diesel and Hybrid is the way forward, EVs should be disregarded as they are not practical.
Great video Lee. It just goes to show that people will still buy substandard food, just because of a celebrity name. No excuse to rip people off
It's the vinegar in a sachet and salt in a packet that gets to me.
Rick - sort it out.
Rick don't give a shit
Hey Lee, glad you mentioned about how quiet EV cars are. As a blind person they are a nightmare to me, always worrying when I cross a busy road have I definitely not overlooked one of them in my vicinity. Those Fish and chips sounded the pits from your description. All the best
They have to be going at snail pace for you not to hear them . The motor still makes a sound and then there’s the road noise from the tyres .
Hours to charge a car . Fill up with petrol 2to 3 mins. I'll stick with petrol.
For now, yes, but after 2030?
Around Easter 1974 I made a trip from Dover all along the English south coast with my parents.
The drabness of it all still haunts me. We once made a stop at something called "Little Chef", an
absolute horrific experience.
What a joy it was when we finally got back on to the European continent.
Seems that not an awful lot has changed after all those years, except for having to consume a
Rick Stein cuisine in the vicinity of some Russian gulag building in the middle of a parking area.
It's an Island on the north west Atlantic. Did you expect it to be exotic? Maybe you should have appreciated it for the dramatic stormy weather.
As soon as you opened the box, that looked like it’d been kicked to the kerb a few times!
Awful!! Rick should be ashamed of himself if that’s what his chains serve up!!
Totally agree with you! Expensive seagull fodder! 🙄
So much better from small independent establishments out there.
The Scottish fish and chips looked a far far better meal. Shun celebrity chefs, after copying their recipes at home.
Does Rick have more than one fish and chip shop?
Fond memories of Cornwall, greedy car parks, parking tickets outside hotel when taking luggage in. Lands end rip off and nothing much to encourage you to go again. Miserable pub landlords, resented you being there. Only good thing was the pasties. Absolutely nowhere to go without putting hand in pocket.
Live in Cornwall, got fish and chips once at Steins in Falmouth...never, ever again, it was the most over priced and fish less (all batter) meal myself and 2 friends ever had. What's more folks were queing for 45 minutes for a table. Hysterical! So back to Harbour lights or Sanders or Cousin Jack's, less cost, less grease and much nicer. Love Cornwall
£6 here in Newcastle that would cost and the amount you would get would Choke a Donkey or at least feed 2 Hungry Geordies.
If there was no Stein name on the Door there would be no Queues🙈
Then again it’s our faults for falling into the Trap of Paying over the top for Celebrity Chefs Takeaway foods.
Went to Padstein some years ago and had a look at Rick's place. The prices were astronomical. If you wanted to mug yourself even more, there was a display of purchasable souvenirs, cooking equipment and what I can only describe as bric-a-brac for equally outrageous prices. We got delicious fish and chips from a modest chip shop a stone's throw away for about a quarter of the cost. It was a shame, because I was a bit of a foodie in those days and had always liked Rick Stein's TV shows.
Me and my wife have really enjoyed this mini-series, watching each instalment. Very insightful, real-world experiences of an EV. Totally agree with your conclusions. We’ve all been taken for a ride (excuse the pun). One issue not addressed is the lack of generating capacity in the UK, which only has around 5% spare at peak times. How will we generate enough electricity to charge millions of addition cars, even if we had the infrastructure. Onwards…
I’ve always enjoyed Steins fish and chips. But I’ll agree with your criticism. It is very expensive and the service is not exactly friendly, I’ve found.
You should’ve taken a short walk into Padstow itself and eaten it by the docks. That’s what we always do after we’ve done the camel trail bike ride.
I can’t believe the sachets of vinegar. That’s a deal breaker for me. It’s part of the fish and chips ritual to have salt and vinegar shaken on just before it’s wrapped up in paper. No more Steins for me if that’s what they’re now doing. Appalling.
Another entertaining vlog Lee, great stuff.
rick stein is to fish and chips what jamie oliver is to fried rice..............they are celeb cooks(even the word cook for the pair of them is ridiculous) they are not chefs
Down here we call it Padstein because he owns so much property there. You don't see the locals buying their fish and chips from Rick Stein - what does that say???
That's interesting, but when in Rome ask the locals and there's the answer!
Made the mistake of going here a few years ago, had to queue for ages. Overpriced garbage. Great report Lee.
Rick Stein has a place local to me on Sandbanks , I only ever see tourists swirling round it, locals avoid it.
Would never wast my money on these so called celebrities food outlets. Wiil always try to use local every time
Just happened on this video and as my husband and I will be staying at the Land's End Hotel for a few days next month, and are very excited to do so. But not so much for the hotel, but also for the location. It's a gorgeous location but there are tons of things to do within a very close range. We'll hit the outdoor theatre to the east, small villages to the west up to St Ives. There's lots of standing stones and Penzance is not far. We'll be coming from Portsouth, where my great grandfather was born. It will be such fun! I'll let you know if we find issue within the Land's End Hotel, other than the cost. It's our 50th anniversary trip so we're splurging a bit. Haven't been to the UK in 15 years so am very happy to go back!
We holiday in Cornwall most years and I really noticed this year…August 2022…that they really know how to charge people. Car parking especially is a total rip off. I’ve had a quick look at going abroad next year and it’s not that much more expensive for 2 weeks all inclusive in a a nice hotel. The Cornwall holiday industry really need to make sure they are not driving people away.
Looked at Steins a few years ago - exorbitant prices and I won’t be ripped off, so we gave it a miss. Glad we did because we got some great fish and chips a lot cheaper elsewhere. Guess the weed was parsley, but it cudda been a stinging nettle lol. F & C musta been crap if you’re complaining of “greasy” that soon. You don’t usually feel like it’s greasy until you have finished and feel you don’t want fish and chips for a week or two.
Again thanks for the info on the f&c riding on a name same old story
Think this vid confirmed 2 things.. Never go to Rick Stein's chippy and never buy EV's...
Max profit for minimal outlay is how Ricky has such a healthy bank balance, we have a Harry Ramsdens in Great Yarmouth , always busy , now to be honest i have never tried them so can't really comment but have seen others eating them and see a lot of left overs where people have just left them to the seagulls, much rather use a good local business down a back street .
There's a chippy just around the corner from there half the price 10x better
What a disgusting price. For fish and chips
I am afraid I have to agree with you. Rick Stein should be ashamed - people will only be ripped off once like this. You were generous with a score of 2/10 I would have been more honest and given him zero. He deserves to go bust in my opinion no matter how good his TV shows are
We were at Padstow a few years back..went to fish shop in the centre of Padstow the fish was good but the chips were frozen chips.. go to any seaside resort in the north you'll never see frozen chips ..
£18 40 what a rip off !!
I thought the fish shop on st Mary's on the Isle of Sicily was dear at £9.95
But it seems as though
I got a bargain ?
Cornwall probably the most expensive holiday destination in the world.
Is the woman in a pink t-shirt with two kids in tow at 22.38 giving a rude gesture behind Lee's back ?
This set of travel vlogs in the EV has been one of the best things I have watched on UA-cam. Your camera skills, picture quality and commentary has been terrific. Looking forward to seeing the final cost but it would be more interesting to know how much waiting time there has been to complete this journey. Excellent vlogging. x
Thank you x
I think people just want the truth. What's the ev infrastructure like and cost. Also a added bonus is to see the overall standard and cost of food in many parts of the country.
Never seen 1 good review of this place! We took one look at the prices and went round the corner to a lovely pub called the Golden Lion…seems like it was a great decision
Hydrogen is the way to go when they wake up.
Wouldn't feed that crap to the cat ... Disgusting
It is pretty bad when a famous celebrity chef puts out such bad quality food so over priced it's insulting to customers. If you're a celebrity chef charging a premium price for a common dish in England then it should be amazingly good. Chris must not care about his customers or reputation. As a businessman of 30 years plus, I'd never sell a shoddy product or provide a shoddy service to my customers that I value. You do your very best to meet and exceed customers expectations. No wonder his price is so high. Customers won't come back and he's relying on his name brand and tourist trade which is shameful really especially for a professional chef.
At 15:00 , is that UK Border Force carefully avoiding the Dover Strait? What is it with British people's desire to walk in the road, when there is a perfectly good pavement? Isn't that just typical at 39:40 , loads of broken glass and other small debris and two blokes with a house broom each to sweep it to the central reservation, from where, the glass will eventually end up back on the road! What's wrong with getting a road-sweeper in to clear it up and take it away in 5 minutes?
I once went to a Jamie Oliver's restaurant in Norwich. It was awful overpriced crap. Luckily its shut down now. Celebrity chefs trade on their name only .
yeah we tried the oone in Cheltenham a few years back. SImply awful, since closed down.
Rick Stein's Fish & Chips are very much like Padstow......A lot of Bullsh.t!
Lived in Cornwall for 26 years... RS fish and chips are over-priced rubbish to be fair.
Why has the price of are fish 🐟 chips gone up so much when we catch are own its stopping 😫 people going to their local chip shop any more its gone up so much. My local chip shop only opens 4 evening 4. 10pm .it used to be packed lunch times till 2.then open again at 4pm till 11pm i think this says it all really
A lot of fish comes from Russian factory ships.
Electric cars, what a laugh
£2 for a can of diet coke is simply shameful. At today's prices 24 cans in Tesco is £9. £0.375 per can. He'll be paying closer to £0.30. A six fold mark up is disgusting. I thought the fish was reasonably priced to be fair, but that curry sauce is a joke - I'd insist they filled it up properly before paying.
The best fish & chip in England is the little shop over the swing bridge on the left hand side around the bend in Whitby North Yorkshire, they are absolutely delicious. It has won many awards for its food and is recommended by Jeremy Clarkson and James May, when they filmed an episode of Top Gear. Been to Whitby many times and always buy my food from there, I can recommend the fish cakes and the Scampi also. Wish I could remember the name of the shop, it's NOT the large chip shop in the centre of Whitby were the chef's wear the tall white hats. 👍🙂👍
Thanks for going to Land's End... so I don't need to. Pay to take a picture of a sign post?!?! Behave yourself Cornwall Association of Tourist Attractions.
McDonald's ice cream & shake machines are generally "out of order" because they take time to clean & the staff can't be bothered to do it. It was a former employee who let the cat out of the bag.
Definitely NOT going electric. I will buy a horse instead. I amusingly watched a VW Beetle pass a Porsche Tincan . Fossil power reigns supreme.
Electric, the biggest con at the moment. Total waste of time
What a shame. The cod looked a little over cooked to me, I might be wrong but it looked on the side of stringy rather than flaky. The less said about the dribble of curry sauce the better, for a thimble I don’t think it’s unreasonable for you to expect a full pot. Chips cooked in beef dripping should be delicious so to see you not even find them good is pretty shocking. Thanks for taking one for the team, shame you had to though pal. Great channel, been watching for ages, only just realised I’d not subscribed though - that has been rectified! Cheers Al
half the product double the price thats why these people are millionaires
Had meal in Rick's at Sandbanks, average, overrated and expensive.
Rip off Rick’s won’t last long without returning custom. Just ask Jamie
dont agree, these mugs who follow and endorse tv chefs keep coming for more overpriced average grub and love a good shafting,they are the same airheads who shop at M and s and Waitrose.
Jamie was seriously geared and the banks got shafted to the tune of 80 million as did his complete staff(1000 sacked) but he ripped his revenue out of the business in personal dividends(5 million) before he folded.........total wanker with no moral backbone and walked away leaving his suppliers high and dry too(20 million).
Great series Lee. Enjoyed the views and seeing bits of your journey, especially the familiar sights.
After this trip though, and this disappointment, is it worth giving fish and chips a rest? Expand your horizons and all lol. 😁
£ 18.40 for a small take away fish and chips! Sounds like piracy.
How much of that is going to the communist government in the form of taxes so they can keep you all in control with promises of more "free" stuff? Only it isn't free, they just take the cost from others.
Big raps to you Lee...John O'Groats to Lands End that some drive but to do it in an EV would TEST 😡😡 my patience...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hi Mate,
That's frightening cost for a couple of chipped up potatoes and a very small fish. In reality that's all it is. I'm stuck for words really.
Chips are just that! cut up potatoes that cost very little to buy.
I am friends with an ex Chip Shop owner in Fife and he got out of it. He says the days of fish and chip shops are numbered. Apparently it's the cost of the fish to them that's killing it and that's why there's less chips and smaller fish at inflated prices. He wasn't making any real profit with the cost of heating the expensive oil in the fryer. I don't think it's the chippies fault all the time.
Were losing our traditions very fast here in UK. It's all cheap crap processed Kebabs and McDonalds etc now.
Really sad.
Steve in Fife.
I started following you for your Tenerife vlogs and then us vlogs I dip in and out of your other videos but generally I am interested the majority of your content, I was really keen on your electric car videos, because I’ve been thinking about going electric but so many red flags over infrastructure, I live on a residential street and sometimes I am not guaranteed to be able to park outside my house, so how am I going to charge my car so that I can get to work, I already get up at 7 to start work, am I going to have to get up at 5 or after a 12 hour shift sit around waiting to charge my car and what if they aren’t working like you have proven many times, I think you have done an excellent job of showing us that at the moment electric cars don’t work , I really want to buy in to electric cars but unfortunately they don’t suit our busy lives at the moment thanks macmaster👍🏻
Think you’d made your mind up to slate it before you even opened the boxes tbh! However it did look rank😃
I wanted to like it. I was looking forward to it as a treat for getting to Lands End :(
1.75 for curry sauce did I see? 😳😳 For that?😳 Whole thing looked terrible.
It's a good job you never went to Jamie Oliver's place in Edinburgh......one of the worst meals I've ever had. They're all closed now, thank God.
On a visit to Edinburgh with friends ,made a bee-line for Jamie's place . expectations dashed ,dark interior noisy, items on menu not available, mediocre food, asked for linguine with no garlic to be told that's how it comes then reheated on premises. expensive mistake . Stay safe Mac .
Welcome to Rip Off UK.
So glad you have exposed Stein for the mean man that he is.
I have lived in Cornwall for 18years and have learnt that there are places only ment to rip off the tourists.
My local chippy is awesome and tasty at a reasonable price. Also gives a loyalty card for a free dinner after 10 visits.
If Rick did that it would cost you hundreds lol
Typical of any TV Chef who thinks they can charge a fortune for fish and chips,and as said he is never there.I would not go near any TV chef so that they can live a lifestyle that we the customers can never had.So sad they they charged you over £18 for a carry out.
Great series Lee, and I completely agree with the rip-off fish and chips. And having to pay to stand near a signpost and take your own photo?! As if visitors buying souvenirs isn’t enough for them. The greed of these places puts you off.
Having lived in Cornwall for 6 years I would agree with your comments on the fish and chips in “Padstein”
Next time you are in Cornwall in the Newquay/ Padstow area, I would recommend the Port and Starboard chippy in Indian Queens. It’s just off the A30. Much much better value
I went to Marco Whites in Glasgow, it was terrible, food was ok... Service was terrible... Marco would not be happy. He is my favourite celebrity chef and was really wanting to like it. Should have went to McDonald's along the road.
The great electric car swindle…
You are one of many UA-cam reviewers who came to the same conclusion
There should be twice the number of chips, the fish should not be greasy, the batter should be crisp and light. The fish does look flaky. Totally agree on the sauce and peas. The fish and chips should come served in paper, not boxes. 2/10 for quality, 0/10 for value
I spend a lot of time in Cornwall and Padstow. I don't half laugh when I see the queues of muppets waiting to be shafted at his establishments.Two friends of mine got rinsed for £140 in his main seafood restaurant (just along from the toilets....) and ended up having a pasty to fill themselves up afterwards. Chips Ahoy for fish and chips, any of the three pasty shops opposite the Ship for oggies, the Shipwrights for Proper Job and the seafood stall outside the pub for crab sandwiches. Job done.
Harry ramsdens much better.
Thanks for a honest review!!
Well done.
Was at Padstow a couple of weeks ago. It was crowded as anything, and not at all pleasant. Did not partake in the RS fish and chips though. We were staying at the Retallack resort just a couple of miles away.
Hi macmaster. I'm from Mansfield and always leave the M1 at jnc27 I don't know why anyone would continue past. Also instead of keep talking about the poor ev infrastructure why not mention all the other things like. Lithium mines increase weight for vans. Depletion of council funds having to replace good vehicles with electric. Chinese power stations producing battery's. Chinese leaving thousands of new EVs outside on acres of land to rot. The list goes on and on. Every part of EV production is a scam that's doing more damage than any combustion engine.
All that hanging around to charge a car if you can find a charger is just not going to work for the majority of people it's a pipe dream!!!
husband and I went for a " treat" ..was terrible and to be honest we both had the greasy burps for the rest of the day. what a shame but then Padstein is such a disappointment now he's taken over most of it
Rick stein owns Padstow... literally.... and local businessman don't like him
You got ripped off clearly. £18 quid for that shite..I wouldn't even entertain it.
It’s in my part of the world , was going to stop there for lunch once until we saw the prices 😮 style over substance , the evening dinner menu was even more extortionate 😡 we gave it a miss and had a nice pub lunch 👍🏻
In the 60's nothing in lands end was charged for. The signpost, you took your own pic, no souvenir shops, hotel, to commercialized now
With current range and charging times, electric vehicles are a joke for anything but medium length journeys. Utter waste of money for what is at the moment an environmental hoax.
No way, looking foward to video Lee, ive really enjoyed the whole adventure so far. Ive been rick steins in Padstow twice and it was delicious, only downside is the price. The scampi is fire
I grew up in Cornwall.....I left ASAP
The commercial side of Lands End is shocking, not a chance in hell Id pay for having my photo at that sign, that charge is shameful and just disgusting.
Was really good hearing you say about how friendly us Scottish were when you were up this end, we are a friendly tribe. I was down at Ascot races back in 2019 for my 50th and most of the cab drivers were grumpy B's
When me and my daughter were getting off the plane at Heathrow we were saying thanks to all the cabin crew which is just natural to some of us, you could see how surprised they were at hearing two people say Thankyou as we left the plane, as all the others said nothing.
All the Uber drivers we had were all really friendly, one was from Somalia and when he heard we were from Scotland he wanted to shake our hands when we were back at Heathrow to return back to Glasgow, he said every Scottish person that's been in his car have all been so friendly and chatty and always shake his hand, he said he was learning from them so that's why he wanted to shake our hands like he had learned some new custom.
Thankyou for sharing your journey with us all Lee, all the time effort and dedication you put in really is very commendable, full credit to you as I for one know just how time consuming the process can take.
Cheers Lee!
I once went to “Padstien” on holiday and met the man himself. He is the most arrogant, self entitled bell end you could meet. Know wonder the locals don’t like him 😏
I've spoke to a customer where I work, and she lives down there and they said he was a complete arsehole. I question is cooking ability.
😂😂😂😂
Padstein is an insult to the true Celtic Kernewek people of Kernow. This is always being done against us. Padstow is Padstow and most wish that Stein and Smitt would just go away. They are ruining it here. Smitt takes credit for Eden when it was not even his idea , he just jumped in and took it from the true man who created it. But many do not know. There is a book which can tell about the trickery. Nobody likes Smitt or Stein.
I hope God can forgive them , but Satan is all over and stopping people from seeing what's going on. 😕
Love him or hate him. He put Padstowe on the map.
How many small towns have you bought prosperity to ?
Come on tell us all. ?
Waiting ???
@@darrenburns16 Love him or hate him. He put Padstowe on the map.
How many small towns have you bought prosperity to ?
Come on tell us all. ?
Waiting ???
Everyone should know what to expect when you go to places like that. Over priced and small portions!
I will stick with my Yaris Hybrid 70 mpg
Scathing! No standing on ceremony. Delivered with typical Northern sincerity. I'm hooked; just spied titles of other vlogs. Subscribed right now!
Thank you. 👍🏼
Really enjoyed sharing the trip with you , although all that charging palaver would stress me out no end . Anyway , I’ll tell you what , when you come to Sydney , I can guarantee a cheaper feed of fish and chips , better quality and with a much better view at Doyle’s in Watson Bay . Happy travels 👍
Lee I know numerous people who have made the expensive mistake of dining at Rick Steins restaurants and all of them said it was grossly overpriced shite. It’s a pity as I’m a big fan of his programmes and cook books.
Love your editing , you keep doing it mate. far better and honest too.
4/10 looked to be more batter than fish!
I worked for many years cooking fish and chips in Australia and my first thought when you opened the box was " I see batter, where's the fish??" we have a Rick Stein restaurant on the south coast of NSW near where my Dad lived. My brother took him there for a birthday treat, they came home and ate after their wildly overpriced but tiny meal. Completely underwhelmed.