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Shouldn't units of measurement mean something? If Subway doesn't get smacked for this, they'll just keep shrinking their products. Should people be forced bring tape measures with them to lunch, just to keep the companies semi-honest?
Subway has gone to court to prevent other companies from describing their 12-inch long sandwiches as 'footlongs', so they've established what they think footlong is supposed to mean. Hoisted by their own batard.
And if you are eating a footlong sandwich...well losing that inch of carbs is only helping you in the end
But seriously... I feel so betrayed! I mean, it always tasted like 12 inches...
And yes, that is what I just said.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, big talk there, sandwich tough guy. Yes, there are better sandwiches, of which Seattle sadly has an extreme deficit of--where are the damn Jewish delis with the pastrami, huh? The best I've found so far is Roxy's in Fremont--but Subway is a hell of a lot better than any other chain place. Quiznos? Crap. Sub Shop? ok.
I grew up 3-4 miles from Subway HQ, in the main test bed (I guess that's what they call it) where Weird and Unorthodox sandwiches were first field tested routinely. While you all were whining about your Subway Club being dull, we were eating Greek feta gyros, every combination and manner of cooked and dressed chicken you can think of, hell... fish Subways (skip these).
Don't you disrespect the one national fast food franchise chain that isn't completely evil. They're the only one I can eat at and not feel totally dirty. Or bloated.
Long story short, I have no problem with this protest.
They are the Yankee Candle Factory of outdoor odor pollution.
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Uh, can you point toward a specific Seattle Subway that smells like a hospital washing station? Because all I ever smell in a Subway is bread. I'm actually thinking now, though, that if I was a wealthy eccentric with a shop I ran for fun rather than livelihood I would have it randomly douse the entryway with unusual but not completely unpleasant odors for no reason but to confuse people.
Sundays: dog odor
Mondays: coffee
Tuesdays: car grease/auto shop
Wednesdays: random anti-septic odors
Thursdays: bananas
Fridays: fresh paint
Saturdays: low tide
On one really long road trip, I actually lost weight by eating at Subway a lot. It was the first time I ever went on the road without gaining weight, so it made them my road fuel stop of choice. Hell of a lot better than a quarter pounder w/cheese, large fries, and a diet Coke, at 1,020 calories. More filling too. McD's and BK are weirdly unsatisfying; you're hungry almost immediately. Not so with Subway. You eat a footlong veggie sandwich, and you're full for a few hours.
#16, I've never noticed their bread smelling bad. I'll keep it in mind next time I take a road trip and hit a Subway.
Truth in advertising has consequences in this state.
We're not the South.
Fuck this hipster post.
One thing, is that over the years Bro turned into a "big man". So, I politely suggested (not that I'm some kind of Adonis) a trip to the gym, thinking that Subway, with all its health conscious publicity would not want a C-level exec who was overweight.
So get this...he said the top guys there were all over 50, bald and huge...a bunch of porkers. I was floored. So all day and night you have these pro boxers and ballers touting the slimming aspects of Subway hoagies and behind the scenes everyone looks like James Coco before the SlimFast [obscure reference for the true fan].
Also, some young athletes, especially baseball teams, especially travelling baseball teams, live on Subway, because no matter where you go, there is one somewhere, where you can customize some reasonably healthy food that fits your nutritional needs of the moment
As for specific weird smelling Subways. 15th and Harrison for one. 8th and Howell, that weird basement one in Westlake mall off 4th. Shit there's many of them. They smell like their phony bread and bleach combined.
Some delis carve turkey off of the bird itself, or cut ham off of a real ham, rather than a "ham" that was created by cramming scraps of muscle into a ham mold and binding them together with food starch. That's what Subway uses.
Read this description of their ham from their own site:(Read their bread ingredients, while your at it.)
At Subway, the primary taste of any of their meats is salt and and the texture is non-existent. That's not true of turkey sliced directly from the bird, for instance, or a toothy slice of real ham.
That said, I like Subway. It's a mediocre sandwich, sure, but it's a mediocre sandwich made exactly like I want it: "A few more peperoncinis, please. Um - okay - a few more, please." (The people in line behind me just love me.)
Of course, if Subway did actually use freshly carved meats, artisan breads, and non-processed cheeses, their ads would be hawking $12 footlongs.
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Which definitely seems to be Subway's business model. When I first moved here (1994), I think there was one Subway sign at the exits from I-5 between Olympia and Portland. Now there are at least four. Those original guys at exit 72 must be pissed.
#39, I only eat Subway as fast road food. And yes, on the road, it's almost always either Subway or some version of Mickey D. Why not eat a sponge? Because I don't suffer from pica. Sorry about your case, though.
#44, whether or not something looks like the picture is a matter of judgment. But when you tell people they're getting something that's a foot long and it's really 11 inches long, that's what we would call an issue of fact.
BAM!