Comments On: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch by Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/16/subway-customers-demand-their-extra-inch Comments On: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by i'm pro-science and i vote]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:49:02 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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Posted by TenrSinger]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:05:19 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:42:12 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
#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.
Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:38:35 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
Posted by Asbel]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:20:43 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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.
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:23:05 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by ryanmm]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:04:07 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by _db_]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:03:21 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Welcome to Life in These United States of Disarray
Posted by Valvoly Tampetti]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:32:43 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by watchout5]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:54:26 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by chromie]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:50:57 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by sirkowski]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:24:35 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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:
Ham: ham (cured with water), salt, dextrose, modified food starch (from corn), sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, smoke flavoring, and sodium nitrite. May contain: seasoning [potassium chloride, pork stock, sugar, yeast extract, salt, lactic acid, fructose, sunflower oil, cysteine HCL, calcium lactate, modified food starch, flavors, grill flavor (from sunflower oil), polysorbate 80, rendered pork fat, and smoke flavor]
(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.
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:45:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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.
Posted by McGee]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:14:35 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by scootertwo]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:10:19 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:10:01 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by raku]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:56:47 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by bigyaz]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:31:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by Simone]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:20:50 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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
Posted by cracked]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:16:18 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:15:41 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by aaaaargh]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:48:47 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>
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].

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:39:20 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]> Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:21:09 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Subway Customers Demand Their Extra Inch]]>

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