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thank you for checking in applebee's this is a first in the history of this channel
this is the first time i have ever even considered or reviewed anything from applebee's not to say
that i haven't been to applebees before but i guess this is the first time that there's been a
item of theirs that's actually been requested to the point of all right maybe we'll try this
out and also i'm just personally curious uh honestly it's maybe it's a morbid curiosity
but i still can't help but wonder what does this taste like so we're giving applebee's a shot
before we get into the item a little bit of a back story about applebee's and all of all of that
this is the first time that i've consumed anything from applebee's in the last decade
before then maybe around 2010 2011 i would go to applebee's from time to time and i would get
some of their various commentables i never really had a problem with them but that's 10 years ago
i think at the time now applebee's is a strange a strange case at the time public opinion wasn't
wasn't all that bad of them i don't think i think most people were we're all right
with them ambivalent at worst but then over the years the opinion of applebee's has really soured
and that's undeniable now whether one wants to argue that those sorts of sentiments are unfounded
and that people are wrong right you could discuss that all you want but the fact of the matter is
a lot of people have really soured on applebees people were complaining about the quality of the
food they were saying that applebee's is a chain that's dying that they're all going to be closed
down soon etc people have had those same sorts of complaints though with other places like um
i think chili's and fridays and all those sorts of places tgi fridays or whatever it's called
anyway one thing that kind of makes this unusual then is that applebee's is having their day in the
news again um is this going to be what turns it around though i have no idea and again i'm
just personally curious we'll see how it tastes but this is the first time in 10 years i've had
anything from them so we'll see applebee's is uh they're going all out i mean i'll tell you that
they have released cheetos boneless wings so these are boneless chicken wings
on the boneless wings are cheetos crumbles and then these are tossed in either a cheetos winged
sauce or a flamin hot cheetos sauce so i went with the hot ones the flamin hot cheetos wings
price wise that you can get an order of the boneless wings for 11.99
so uh a little pricey for what they are
there they are in here we're gonna get these out of their little enclosure soon
people have really been praising the marketing for this though because
let me break it down think of it this way one demographic that some places like applebee's
have been struggling with is a younger demographic right i think there's even a
time where they've kind of blamed millennials i believe it was for maybe a downturn in business
so this is the compromise think about it this way this is pure genius when you were growing up what
did you eat right just think for a minute what did you eat when you were growing up what's one of
those things that can invoke a sense of nostalgia but also curiosity to make you check this out and
notice how i point it that's the big hint right what's the answer say it with me food and cheetos
i guess are food so there you have it they really they they bridge to the gap this is what
we have yeah the cheetos boneless wings though from uh applebee's you can see there they are
you can see some of those cheetos crumbles on them and here that's some uh ranch i believe
so there they are let's do a little bit of a uh not a head count i guess but a wing account
let's see how many come per order one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
i guess a ten piece so eleven ninety nine for a ten piece boneless wings
i could smell i could smell the cheetos already
again these are the flamin hot ones looks like there's a little crisp to the boneless wing
and that's what it looks like so we're going to try it out i mean i'm just curious
i honestly don't know how many people are really interested in this item but i am
and let's see if they're good or not first time having anything from applebee's in 10 years
giving the boneless the cheetos boneless wings from applebee's a try they're going in
we'll take a bite out of this one
i forgot to do
except breathed in a little bit of water by accident
i will i will do a um a thumbnail shot maybe at the end maybe i'll just record something
separate because i realize i forgot to do one but it's okay no big deal anyway
interesting interesting here i think some people might be tempted to say bad things
about these wings just because you know it's maybe it's still popular to hate on
applebee's a little bit all in all though for what they are for how they're marketed everything that
these wings might be um they're better than i thought they would be are these a novelty
absolutely one thing in the world of fast food that you just have to take into account
is that you have some items released from various establishments are they released more or less for
practicality in that yeah this is something that i'm going to eat you know every single day or is
it something that's going to be essentially well i'm just going to get this you know because it's
kind of odd kind of interesting um maybe for the social media appeal etc right what is the point of
this item and this is one of those novelty items um i don't think this is something that you would
be eating every single day again it's more of just an attention grabber it's like hey we got
cheetos paired with these boneless wings here etc uh check this out right that sort of thing
so we have to understand that number one so it's a novelty that needs to be acknowledged but in terms
of the general flavor um it's weird but it's not bad that's all that i could really say when i have
boneless wings um i don't really associate the cheesy flavor of cheetos chips with them at all
so it's a strange combination admittedly does it work though barely um it barely works though right
it's to the point where it's like yeah this is odd but it's not bad so that's what i mean by that
does it you know it's like it's right on the verge of clashing but it doesn't and that's
the most interesting thing about this so these sorts of cheetos wings you get that i mean they
really did nail the flavor at least and there's a good amount of the cheetos crumbles as well
as the cheetos flavor in the sauce so in terms of that yeah these are true to their name um they're
definitely they have that cheetos cheesiness what's interesting is that there's a crunch
as you can see there on the outside again they're pretty well breaded
but on the inside they are tender actually um and it's an interesting juxtaposition between
the crunchiness of the breading and the crumbles on the outside and then the tender
and actually surprisingly juicy chicken on the inside um the chicken quality you know
it is what it is but it's actually not that bad all things considered the chicken was flavorful
and um again it was um it was quite tender so as far as the quality of the the wings themselves not
bad only thing that might be lacking a little bit because again it's kind of stayed true to its name
all right you got the cheetos flavor that's there the boneless wings the chicken all that is there
uh in terms of spice the spice is very mild that's the only thing you might see the name
what did they call this flamin hot sauce so you might think well flamin hot that's going to be
really really spicy and the one thing just to bear in mind is that that might not be the case
so uh flaming hot they may not be and that just needs to be taken into account the spice level
is definitely low um i only got the water just because i wanted something to drink
not because if there is really any spice i mean it's very mild only if you are extremely extremely
sensitive to spice would you really need any sort of water with this um but in my case for instance
i didn't really feel anything i didn't really need anything so the one thing that was just lacking
here these are supposed to be the spicy wings and the spice level is extremely extremely low um to
the point where you would probably think that these would be i don't know mild wings at best
that's just one thing but in terms of how they taste strange they're a novelty but it works
in the end and uh that's important just the spice is lacking i went with uh some ranch
just because i was kind of given an option to choose something so we'll just see how that works
see how that pairs
no
i'll say this the ranch doesn't really work with it it just doesn't
you know how it is there's just various flavors that clash and they just don't
they don't blend together so ranch is a no-go but uh in terms of the wings themselves again
what more can you really say therefore taking everything into account looking at the price a
little pricey though 12 bucks for these 10 wings but i guess that's just how things are these days
um taking it into account i'm going to give these a 6.5 out of 10 again i wish
they were spicier because that's what the name implies but all things considered their novelty
and um yeah definitely slightly above that 5 out of 10 average there so 6.5 out of 10
is the rating that they've got they're strange but they work that's all that i have for you
today i'm your host the report of the week checking out applebee's for their cheetos i
keep forgetting the name flaming hot wings that's all that i have thank you for watching take care