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Applebee’s removed their burger from their 2 for 20 menu. I honestly don’t understand why. One would think the burger would be one of the cheapest things they could serve on that menu, which would mean they’d jump for joy when I ordered it. But no, it was gone, so I had to think fast on what I was going to order. I really wanted fries, so I stayed away from the good-looking pastas. I wanted to be adventurous.

So I ordered the Riblets.

I love ribs. I love ribs a lot. I figured, how bad could they be? But they were so bad. So bad.

One of the reasons ribs are awesome is because they’re sort of… self-contained. They have grips on the sides, and you clean the bone off, and then you grab another. All the meat is easily accessible without any issues or any silverware. Riblets are apparently the exact opposite of this. They’re completely coated in BBQ sauce so that you get completely and utterly messy no matter what you do. Inside the riblet, the bones are hiding, so you can’t see them half the time, and they’re so tiny that it’s incredibly hard to get the meat out from around them to eat. It is basically the anti-rib. Not to mention it soaked the fries I wanted so badly with BBQ sauce that I couldn’t enjoy them either. I felt messy constantly, and it felt like more work than it takes to eat Crab, and I love crab. It was just an overall bad experience.

Does this mean I’m back out of love with Applebee’s? Maybe. Probably not, but maybe. At the very least, I’m not making that horrible mistake again. Ugh. What was the person who put that dish together thinking?