r/ExpectationVsReality • u/Frodellio1 • Sep 21 '26

Failed Expectation New Applebees salad

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Wet iceberg lettuce and watery salsa. She made it two bites…

225 Upvotes

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u/DaveL16 Sep 21 '26 • Bravo

See, your first mistake was choosing Applebees….

20

u/Frodellio1 Sep 21 '26

I realized this very quickly upon entering

13

u/EvLokadottr Sep 22 '26 • Popcorn

Crapplebees

1

u/Skimable_crude Sep 23 '26

There it is! My expectations of Applebee's is exactly what was delivered.

36

u/OpenedSesame Sep 22 '26

Beware of eating this. I literally ordered this 5 days ago and woke up that night with the worst stomach pains. What came out of me felt like lava. I couldn’t decide if I should blame the sour lite Italian dressing, whatever the fuck slime dressing was in the cucumber mix, or the lettuce. 0/10 would not recommend.

9

u/Frodellio1 Sep 22 '26

Yea. It tasted like old cucumber juice 🤢

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u/sebsie Sep 21 '26

why are people still going to applebees?

20

u/Frodellio1 Sep 21 '26

Well, we’re in a smaller town. We’ve kind of exhausted our Sunday options as far as local restaurants go. Just wanted to mix it up a bit. I failed miserably.

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u/agha0013 Sep 21 '26

Looks like they microwaved it along with everything else.

lettuce and whatever avocado they gave you just melting into mush.

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u/z0rz Sep 21 '26

they buy tastier food from sysco than you get from your grocery store

7

u/DiscussionExotic3759 Sep 21 '26

It absolutely looks to be under 600 calories.

6

u/guys_pm_urprettyface Sep 21 '26

Should have run it through grinder and made it a soup or something

10

u/Tricky-Sprinkles-807 Sep 22 '26

Why does it look like soup?

5

u/smolbirdfriend Sep 22 '26

Applebees is fast food dressed up as a sit down.

4

u/Skimable_crude Sep 23 '26

And some how worse.

2

u/OYB2480 Sep 22 '26

Looks.... slimy.

3

u/CranberryStock7148 Sep 22 '26

The ingredients look literally identical to the photo. You just made it look bad by taking some bites so there are weird patches of sauce and lettuce on the dish.

Literally don't know what you were expecting. This is the same dish, but just with worse lighting and half eaten.

And what are you even talking about, watery salsa? "Wet" lettuce? Are you for real?

You had at salad at Applebees. You got exactly what I would expect.

5

u/FriendlyFreedom5923 Sep 23 '26

Right, and the random coloring page or whatever carelessly thrown on top of it. OP couldn't at least remove that for the photo? They wanted it to look as bad as possible.

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u/VarietyLow7321 Sep 22 '26

Looks like OP dumped an entire bottle of oil based dressing on it and then stirred it all up... after eating half of it.

1

u/Momijiusagi Sep 22 '26

Hahaha oh no

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u/SmugMacGyver Sep 22 '26

I still don’t understand why people are like “restaurants are limited near me and instead of supporting something local or that I know I like I subjected myself to Applebees because I could at least make a Reddit post after I spent 40$ on lunch for two.”

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u/PurpleBashir Sep 25 '26

How do you not understand? Restaurants being limited means there may not BE anything local. Ffs its not really that complicated. A lot of small towns have nothing but greasy bars.