Pigs in blanket ravioli taste test with David Ellis and Josh Barrie

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Head of Going Out, David Ellis, and food and drink writer, Josh Barrie, went to Pasta Evangelists in Harrods to try their pigs in blanket ravioli.

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00:00It's oily.

00:01For one, well.

00:02More harvester than Harrods.

00:06Hello.

00:07We're in the dining hall at Harrods in Knightsbridge

00:10to try Pastor Evangelist's new and seasonal

00:14pigs in blankets ravioli.

00:16I'm with David and we're going to give it a go.

00:18I think this is my first Pastor Evangelist's experience,

00:21shockingly.

00:22I'm a bit confounded by the whole thing.

00:24Just don't know if I'm going to have a sausage

00:26or if it's just going to be pork meat and then bits of bacon

00:29or if the bacon's going to be on top.

00:30You know, I'm going into this with an open mind.

00:32I've never encountered pigs in blankets ravioli before.

00:36We'll have to see.

00:37We'll give it a go. I'm excited.

00:40The picture in the press release was some ravioli

00:43covered in actual pigs in blankets,

00:45which I thought was the novelty value for Christmas, right?

00:48Sausages wrapped in bacon, scattered about pasta,

00:50absolutely bonkers, which is the whole point, right?

00:53The reason David and I are going around trying all these

00:55mad Christmas meals is for the silliness factor.

01:00But what we have here is just what looks to be ravioli filled

01:04with pork meat and some guanciale or pancetta or bacon, whatever.

01:12So you very much get a sausage texture and it's kind of quite dense.

01:16It's not as bad as I... it's alright, I suppose.

01:20It's a bit greasy.

01:21It's oily.

01:22More harvester than Harrods.

01:23More harvester than Harrods.

01:24But not unpleasant, really.

01:27I think what's interesting is it's very definitely a novelty

01:30that they put on and it doesn't necessarily taste like a novelty.

01:34The pasta actually is not cooked badly at all.

01:39Hats off.

01:40I think I'm going to give it six and a half.

01:43It's out of ten.

01:44It's not offensive.

01:46I don't think it's worth coming down for at Christmas.

01:48But it's perfectly okay and I will finish it,

01:50which means it's better than not.

01:52Oh, maybe five out of ten for me.

01:56I probably wouldn't have it again.

01:58But it's not horrible, really.

02:00A bowl of this pasta for one.

02:02You get, I don't know, maybe ten ravioli filled with pork,

02:07with some bacon and a bit of parmesan if you want it.

02:11And it's going to be 36 pounds.

02:14So I think that that is too much money for this plate of food

02:20by maybe 20 pounds.

02:22If I'd known that it was 36,

02:23I think I might have dropped my score quite significantly.

02:25I probably dropped my score to four and a half.

02:29In light of the price revelation,

02:32which, thanks David by the way for picking up the bill,

02:36but I'll go down from a five to a three I guess.

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