Grim food combo or aibu?

[Gigwidow]

Just went for pub meal, quite a nice pub with higher end prices. I had lamb steak with Greek salad (£30 but hey- we’re on holiday).
It arrived in a bowl with Greek salad (feta, olives, tomato, cucumber) on bottom with lamb steak on top, and here’s the kicker… covered in beef gravy!
wtf? We enquired to the staff whether this was the norm and they insisted it was perfectly normal.
I'm baffled and a little grossed out but interested to hear other people’s take. AIBU?

Seriously? Bisto gravy on lamb and Greek salad…like tomato, cucumber, feta etc?
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Greece over the years and have never encountered this, plus it sounds grim (even if you replaced Bisto with actual gravy).

I’m a Northern lass and we love gravy on most things, but for the love of God, not on a salad, revolting 🤢

Ew 🤢

I not only wouldn’t have eaten it, I wouldn’t have paid.

Gravy on a salad? No thank you. I eat some strange combos but not that

Dh and I were in a local restaurant and I decided on the fish pie but on the menu it stated that it was accompanied by a salad!!!. I changed that to a selection of vegetables. Very strange combination which I couldn't imagine being very nice.

I was salivating at greek salad and lamb steak... but gravy on top? WTF?

You're not wrong OP. In the slightest.

Bisto wasn't mentioned,was it? Big difference between Bisto and a nice slow roasted meat it its own gravy.

ETA just re read properly and Bisto was mentioned in which case a hard NO 😂

We have salad and fish pie a lot 🤣

Very odd!

Neither would work over salad though!

It was bad enough with the lamb on top of the salad. I don't want lukewarm salad with lamb drippings in it. But yeah, the beef gravy is abominal too.

I hate pineapple in savoury food - I just don't get it. The only exception would perhaps be a pineapple salsa, provided the pineapple is tangy and not sweet. I love pineapple otherwise.

I also think shredded cheese in salads is gross. And salads swimming in mayo-based sauces. The Americans seem to like these two mentioned types of "salad".

If it says balsamic dressing on the menu, then I don't see how they can argue the toss that it's normally served with beef gravy. That doesn't make sense. Didn't you point them to the menu and tell them that beef gravy is not, and never has been, the same thing as balsamic dressing? And whilst you're at it, point out that salad and gravy is obviously the product of a chef that needs urgent therapy.