I hadn't been to Applebee's for a long time since they stopped offering Riblets, but when they announced a Riblets special I decided to give it a try; I also ordered the Blue Moon beer special.
The first thing that was off was the sauce. It wasn't the Riblets sauce they were known for in decades past. It was some gloppy supermarket bottle-type, and simply not very good. But even worse, the meat was old. It wasn't quite spoiled but it definitely had that old-freezer-meat taste, disgusting. Unfortunately the beer wasn't much better, it was stale. I exchanged it for a Coors light, and that was better but also a bit stale. How can a restaurant not even have fresh Coors light? Maybe they let kegs sit around for six months before tapping them? I ate at the bar, the bartender was pleasant, that was the only good thing here, the food was terrible and I'm never going back.