Subway sandwiches - Classic or Dud?

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Fresh and healthy, great tasting sandwiches and salads, or sloppy overpriced junk? YOU decide!!!

― Tom H, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

great tasting sandwiches yes.. fresh and healthy not sure.. overpriced HELL YEAH

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream about them. If you go to the hopsital car park in Reading, they give you a voucher, 2 for 1 or something. I've never tried them.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always liked subway. used to eat there all the time when i lived in toronto and there was one next to my office building. i haven't had any in london, since i have been converted into one of these 'packaged sandwich' people thanks to pret, etc.

when i was in university i dated this gal who worked at subway part-time and she was always very depressed about coming home smelling like subway, but I LOVED IT! mmm.. bread and onions...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Not too sure about healthy - definitely not after I've dolloped a load of mayonnaise on. They are pretty tasty, although the quality of the bread tends to vary and, yeah, hella overpriced.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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In its continuing effort to provide a "taste of home" to American troops stationed overseas, the Army & Air Force Exchange Services (AAFES) has opened a SUBWAY® restaurant at Camp Speicher in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.
A grand opening ceremony was held on September 13 and was attended by Camp Speicher Commander Brig. General Stephen Mundt, AAFES Commander Major General Kathryn Frost and AAFES COO Marilyn Iverson.
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― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i was always partial to the BMT

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream about them. If you go to the hopsital car park in Reading, they give you a voucher, 2 for 1 or something. I've never tried them.
-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...) (webmail), November 23rd, 2004. (link)

If you mean the sticky off the car park ticket, then that's not a dream.

But the hopsital car park is ruddy miles from Subway's in Reading...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i have yet to try one as every time i walk past a store all i can smell is the YEASTY BREAD DOUGH smell which reminds me of my time as a pizza boy...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

There's not much naval warfare in Iraq at least. That'd leave a bit of sour taste in the mouth.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I like how other sandwich shops (I saw some at Benjy's) have these things called "Torpedo" sandwiches - Clever!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

These smell like they'd be great for hangovers. But even when hungover I know not to pay nearly five quid on a small sandwich...

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom you stealing my thoughts, i was thinking this morning about starting a thread on this.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus that is expensive. unsurprisingly, they are much cheaper in north america. the biggest most expensive sandwich is usually just over 5 dollars (CDN) (around 2 quid)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm really hungry now maybe it's subway for lunch.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

They're much better now that they ripped off Quizno's gimmick and toast the sandwiches.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Right - I'm buying this lunchtime: what could I get you from the menu?

― Tom H, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been in a Subway, but the food in their adverts looks utterly vile and disgusting. Especially the "sauces".

Then again, I think those sterotypical fast-food food shots (fresh vegetables being thrown up in the air, slow-mo, drips of water flying off them!) always look awful.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

steak and cheese sub meal pls!

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― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

are they actually healthy?

there's one right beside where I work, I eat there very often, usually a BMT but sometimes the meatball one is good if you're feeling disgusting. Oh and occasionally a melt. I find the only problem is the 6 inch ones can be too small and the foot long is just too big. sometimes you get a bigger small sandwich than other times though. you can never be sure.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the steak and cheese once and it was rotten, no offence Ken.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever braved the culinary high seas and got "seafood and crab"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Seafood and crab? I assume this is some kind of rare freshwater crab species that gets served up? ;-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yes that is what they call it!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan OTM about length. What I wouldn't give for an 8 or 9 incher.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(insert obvious joke here)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

subway can be much better for you than other fast food options, but not if you're getting mayo and cheese-loaded processed meat bombs.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"insert"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the cheese seems kind of pathetic and insignificant but yeah I had no doubt the suspicious looking meatballs are not healthy. I never realised innocent mayo could be so bad.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow where are you paying 5 pounds for a small Subway sandwich? In a special "we saw you coming" franchise? A footlong is £3.79+ depending on filling at the one here. It is expensive but YUMMY. Quiznos are better but they really are ridiculously expensive here, not all that cheap in the US either though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

what I mean about the cheese: it's a very tiny slice, I might just not get it, in future. as regards value subway is ok, the other places tend to be ludicrously expensive in comparison.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah they look to be healthier than like other ones of those major fast food stuff.. but i don't think it's what your dietrician would recommend you have.

oh ronan it probably was rotten when i had it too.. i was pretty hungry that day walking on byres road in glasgow and i could have eaten anything and it'd have tasted great.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

subway is not in the least bit healthier than other fast food unless you specifically ask for none of what makes it taste somewhat passable. have fun with that cheeseless meatball sub - you'll notice it when it's gone.

actually, in a brief stint of werking in such an establishment, i noticed that the preparation of meatballs (i.e. nuking frozen meatballs in water) routinely cleared the line of would-be diners.

(smells like dog food, except warm. maybe that's why we were always told to do it while the bread was baking...)

― de Chastelard, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

did i say dog food? i meant dog farts. sorry.

― de Chastelard, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

USA: Cheap and good. Classic.

England: Expensive and not good. Also: the bread in England = dud. Scrimping on the toppings = dud. Lack of sauces/cheese/fillings = dud.
DUD!

Never healthy. Anywhere. Not if you want something tasty.

I have done extensive research to come to these conclusions. In England, nobody knows how a sandwich like this should be. Everything that should be greasy, is dry. The bread is all flaky and wrong. I don't know why it's different, it just is!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, it's nearly midnight here and this thread made me feel like subway. I'm going to have to drive for almost half an hour to find a store open that late here.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The voucher is real, it is in my coat pocket, but eating there is still a dream.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There are at least two nicer places, both sides of Subway, on Friar Street.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I have to go tomorrow (hospital included) so I will check them out for Pumpkin Publog.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to Subway on Sunday...the "sandwich artist" was really picasso like in her cutting of the bread and laying of the cheese. She was quite a weird girl who went on and on to me about how she turned her life around from drugs and rampant sexcapades. i didn't even strike up conversation with this girl all i did was grunt and she told me her life story. i ordered my sub with everything on it and once i bit into it i thought that it was possible that a scab from a track mark could have fallen into my salami and i wouldn't have even noticed it. i threw the entire sub out. this was after a long day of weirdness. i saw an old man pull up along side of me in his car and get out, turn the radio up as loud as it could go...tony bennett and get out and go into a store. inside his car strapped into the front seat was a stuffed monkey with a corduroy jumper and a kangol hat on. apparently stuffed monkeys like to travel in buicks to craft stores and listen to tony bennett. I dont't know what this has to do with Subway...unless they have stuffed monkeys working for them.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris I don't even know how to respound to that, except to say:
Don't eat the "seafood and crab"! I used to really like it as a child, so I attempted to revive the nostalgia by getting it in college. Evidentally the "seafood" had been sitting out for too long and I was ill for days. That's the danger of mayonnaise based food, I think.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy John's is so much better, anyway.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I had deep friend crab stick yesterday as part of my bento box. It was sweetly tasty.

I discovered Subway in Vancouver in 1995 and for some reason fell deeply in love with their sandwiches. They were like this massive treat, for some reason. And even though they weren't expensive, I still manged to blow 3/4 of my entire holiday budget in Subway. A cautionary tale.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

how much was the budget?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

£6

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep friend crabstick? Is this some kind of exotic sexual position?

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

We're very close friends.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it's part of the bento box

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna put my crabstick in your bento box.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant to put that in quotation marks. It's not a personal threat/offer.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i was always partial to the BMT
The BMT is where its at!

Though everyonce in a while I still wanna sneak on down to a Mr Sub cause they got MUSHROOMS!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

jocelyn OTMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud. The bread's all soggy and you hardly get any meat.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

And Noodles, there's always the awesome NEW YORK SUBS right next door to Subway on Queen West...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a subway on Queen West?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris that Tony Bennet story is weird.. Some old guy left his car in the parking lot at the library last week, blaring some country-proud-to-be-an-idiot anthem (..."where we can waste fuel by driving a huge pickup truck in the city and leave the radio going so everyone can hear our shitty taste, like they're going to somehow "convert" to our way of thinking ..")

But alack, no monkey.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, there was last time I was there. West of Spadina, closer to Bathurst, north side. Across from that big parking lot. But if I'm hankerin' for a sub around there, New York Subs is where its at.

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― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

these cost 5 pounds in london? wow I only pay like $3 for the veggie 12". I eat them all the time. they're crap. but there is something in the salt and oil that makes me go back.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

kyle, it's crack.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic on Tuesdays, when the 12" are only $3.49

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha they get their deliveries on wednesdays then, i see.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yes they get their deliveries on wednesdays because the sandwich artist told me i could come back on wednesday for provolone cheese. unless this was secret code for ass sex.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

do you live near gear?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40534000/jpg/_40534685_toastiewoman-ap203.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Much to my surprise -- I think -- the Subway in Dunedin, New Zealand was especially favored by the ILX folks there. Possibly because you could get decent enough vegetarian sandwiches.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

dud.
way overpriced, soggy and bland.

― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I respect their stubborn refusal to improve their cheese. It is the blandest, whitest, most lackluster cheese currently in production and Subway will offer it for eternity.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It's white american cheese! They just leave it undyed so that you think it's some sort of special Subway cheese.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think their sandwiches are terrible, just completely awful and bland.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic.
I typically have one Subway sandwich a week, but I'm not much of a sub expert because I only ever order the same two types of subs (the "cold cut combo", approximately 75% of the time, or a turkey sub). I find Subway's subs to be bigger and more filling than the subs from my other major option, Mr. Sub. Mr. Sub's subs are flat. The only problem I have with Subway is the type of onions they use. They ruin any sub they appear on.

Subway with Mr. Sub's ingredients would be sub heaven.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jimmyjohns.com

EAT THERE TIS TEH YUMMAH

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Lauren is OTM upthread about how to be healthy at Subway. The thing is, you can often make things healthy at regular fast food restaurants by doing the same thing - avoid mayo, cheese, and ground beef (that includes the meatballs at Subway, it's not just the cheese).

I usually get the chicken breast (usually the foot-long) on wheat or 'honey-oat' with lettuce tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, onions (although sometimes I hold them if I have a impending meeting or date), pepperocinis, salt&pepper, vinegar on the veggies (no oil), and some honey mustard sauce instead of mayo. This sandwich has virtually no saturated fat. Also, read the labels on your chips/crisp. Remember, if you don't care about being healthy, then have a meatball with mayo (oh yes) and cheese and oil etc.

Also, I read an article about the tomato shortage here that mentions Subway as being the largest single consumer of tomatoes in the US!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

All that said and I forgot to add that Subway is a little bland compared to other sandwich chains like Quizno's and Togo's which are both more flavorful and have fresher ingredients. I still enjoy Subway though.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They've also got those salads now, and one of my favorite benefits of the salad stuff is that now I can get SPINACH and SHREDDED CARROTS on my sammich. SOmetimes they try to charge extra though for spinach, to which I say FUCKETH THINE SELF YE OF JARED FOGLE SANDWICHERY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Quiznos okay but why are their sandwiches so goddamn greasy? I eat Subway when I want something quick but somewhat healthy (I get something to the effect of what Spencer orders upthread, except 6" and not 12"). Oh and the Baked Doritos and a diet doctor pepper. YUM. Maybe I'll get that for lunch today.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the sweet onion chicken teriyaki on honey oat with carrots, olive, cucumbers and spinach. I think it's tasty.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love baked Dorito's! I wish they'd have the baked Cool Ranch (tm) more often. At Quizno's I usually get the Sierra Smoked Turkey or the Honey Bourbon Chicken which are not greasy at all (they're healthy without even specifying anything).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend eat at Subway only when I'm poor, because I have a seemingly endless supply of Subway coupons that were printed in our uni. phonebook.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

footlong veggie on italian herbs&cheese bread double provelone lettuce onions cucumbers regular mustard mayo oil salt and pepper

lifesaving for vegetarians on roadtrips.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you get the gardenburger one, teeny, or the just-cheese-and-veggies one?

This local sammichateria I worked at called Barry T's used to have the best veggie sammiches ever; we melted swiss, cheddar, and jack cheese with slivered almonds up in there, topped up with all the goodies. I often served them to some very well known ex-UK basketball stars.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Subway is grodey. I think it's the lettuce, and since I'm a veggie, the sandwiches are all lettuce, this shredded-cardboard lettuce with no flavor. The veggie patty sandwich is better, but still has gross lettuce on it. I think Jimmy John's might have the best veggie sandwich.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you, n/a, for saying "grodey" - it reminds me of my older sister when she was 13.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hey I've never seen this veggie patty thing! I do love Jimmy Johns (GUAC!) but subway brought vegetarian food to the desolate stretches of illinois highway so they get classic status with me.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M BRINGIN' IT BACK. "Grodey" that is.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG Mandee you are grodey to the max! ;)
The Subway veggie patty was never heated enough for my tastes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I worked for subway for a year when I was 15-16. There is information I have that you would probably not want to know. But overall the food is pretty fresh and good. I never understood why people got the seafood and crab. We would take packages of that stuff and defrost it, Then have to wear plastic gloves to crumble it and then literally squeeze a gallon jog of mayonaisse out (it was always fun when it came out in one piece) and had to mix it by hand. The crab and seafood was fun to squeeze between your fingers and bounce off walls. The tuna is just as bad. After have to press the water out of huge cans we had to grind it up and then also squeeze a vat of mayonaisse into it and mix it by hand.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

OH YEAH the veggie patty is often cold or cool in the middle, that's pretty grodey right there. If it's well-heated, it tastes pretty good though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized I can probably still open and close a Subway store by myself. Also note: late night subway artists are pretty much always stoned because the walk in refridgerators have excellent ventilation systems. This is why many Subway stores burn a lot of bread because stoned people are scared of the ovens.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I had an old co-worker who loved the delight of the sea mix. It looked so grodey. Like I could hear it squish around in her mouth.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

BLELEERRGHGHEGEHFGRFGGHH!!!!

(That was me vomiting in my mouth.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be better if it was called "seefood" & "krab."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

They don't even call it "seafood & crab" anymore; it's seafood delight or delite. I confess though, that's what I get when I go there.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it should be called delights of the sea :(

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

or protein from the sea!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT NOTHING IN THERE IS REAL! Except maybe the eggs in the mayonaisse. Man when that stuff goes bad it would go BAADDD.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Creature of the sea MEDLEY

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yes, I'll have twelve inches of creature-of-the-sea-medley-y goodness please, on one of your deep-fried yogurt masrshmallow bread, with beet sprouts, garlic peel, loose screws from out of old Transformers, and lite goat milk vinaigrette. Also, I'd like 2 quarts of carbonated caramel syrup beverage food product in a paper carry-out vessel. Thanks."

― nickalicious has no idea really why he felt inspired to post that, but he sure d, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha hah ha!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It took every morsel of free will left in the ever-depleting pile of mindpower I keep in backlog to not say "liter of cola" there.

― nickalicious has seen Super Troopers too many times, drank too much coffee (nick, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That's it. My new name shall be...

― creatureofthesea(medley) (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

so it totally disgusting that i had Subway for lunch after reading this thread?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't love you anymore.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Black olives makes their food classic. I hate fast food, but if theres no other choice, snubway or pizza is the only fast food I eat (no meat.)

Did you read the book Fast Food Nation. It tells about Snubway's franchising terms, they are the worst of any chain. It lets them treat workers & franchisers like shit in predatory ways. Dud.

About 8 or 10 years ago I did something evil in Snubway. There was nobody else in there and they left a roll of those coupon stamps that you redeem for free food lying on a counter. As soon as the cashier went in back, i jumped it, swiped em & took off. Got free sandwiches with several people for weeks at other locations. I'm not sorry.

― seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, thats the stuff of dreams!

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, there was last time I was there. West of Spadina, closer to Bathurst, north side. Across from that big parking lot. But if I'm hankerin' for a sub around there, New York Subs is where its at.

I've walked past that strech all the time and I can nether confirm nor deny this.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Subway is totally dud, when I can just go round the corner to the local bakery like they have in every shopping strip and country town anywhere, and order a huge sandwich on fresh thick bread with salads and chicken or whatever and its only about $2 or $3. Why would I want that other gunk?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Serious question here: is Australia theonly place that has sandwich shops/milk bars/bakeries as a common thing that will make you a good fresh sandwich of whatever you want for real cheap?

Sanwich and a saussie roll. Lunch of champions!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Must just be in victoria, shop made sarnies are damn expensive up here.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to find the right kind of shop, granted - yon olde style bakery or takeaway wot does salad sarnies, or ones with a chicken schnitzel and coleslaw in. Not a fancy place that does foccacias and stuff, those places charge ricidulous amounts so they can put rocket leaves instead of lettuce in. Feh!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

milk bar?

(haha I went to that site and the randogoth pic was of a GIRL I KNOW!!)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Milk bar:

http://www.acp.au.com/exhibitions/touring/img/milk_bar.jpg

Getcher meat pies, cigs and the paper here. Oh and PaddlePops in summer.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That picture is making me want to go to Torquay. :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wack.
they introduced BOMBASS semi-homemade cookies a few years ago and then tried to do a switcheroo w/ prepackaged ones, killed my last reason for ever going there.

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to Subway once, out of curiosity - the Byres Road one mentioned by Ken upthread. The food reminded me of toy food that children might play with, assembling a plastic piece of cheese etc...Anyway, there are much better places to get food on Byres road so I didn't go again. They have one in St Andrews now (our first chain fast food outlet, doncha know) where a few people I know work - but I've never eaten there.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Vons supermarkets (So Cal and elsewhere?) makes good sammies, and used to have specials and $2-off coupons before the strike of a few months ago. Also buy 7 and the 8th is free! But I've had the Subway carnitas sandwich and thought it was pretty good, though most are too bland to get excited about.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Upper Crust- dud.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

QUIZNO'S IN MASSACHUSETTS HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR HEPITITIS.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

in the japanese tv ads are they saying subway: eat flesh?

― ?, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

subway is probably my favorite fast food...i'm excited they have them all over london now (god, subway and krispy kremes available everywhere, it's like heaven)

i always get weird looks when i order: "footlong italian veggies and cheese. yes, i'd like cheese on my veggies and cheese. no, no meat. no salad, just tomato and LOTS of pickles. like more pickles than you've ever put on a sandwich before. no, more. pretend it's a pickle sandwich. great. thanks. no, no salt, pepper, oil or sauce, that's done. meal deal please."

i realise i sound 'very american' when i do this, but i try to be nice about it, and that's just the way i like it. god, i love their pickles.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Subway is like McDonalds for grown-ups innit?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't be arsed trying to find Subway is miserable Reading today.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

in Reading, not is.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

subway? more like suckway.

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Our butchers / deli / game merchants is two doors down from Subway here. And they make awesome (and HUGE) sandwiches, so I've never bothered going into one. My coworker did though, and said it was one of the worst things he'd ever eaten. TBH though, pretty much all fast food = dud.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Trayce is correct. Why pay for an expensive sanwich made from cheap ingredients? Are there no corner shops or milk bars in the US? There must be surely. Is it only in NY that you can go to a salt beef bar and score yourself a huge pastrami sandwich? Or have I been watching too many movies?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and Matt too, obv. Delis rock.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Delis have milshakes too. And so does Kelis.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to confess I have on the odd occasion had one of the subway breakky rolls with egg and cheese in. They microwave the egg in one of those plastic microwave scrambling thingies which is ok I guess. Though one time I noticed it hadnt been cleaned out from the last egg. So now I dont have them anymore.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there no corner shops or milk bars in the US?

Milk...bar?? There are corner shops, but the corners they are on are few and far between.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Aso, if you are in a mall, it's pretty much all fast food chains, so Subway is probably one of better options, at least calorie/fat content wise.

The one time I had a sandwich from Subway in London, it was kind of yucky so maybe it's better here in the states.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And I think a sandwich at Subway is cheaper than a comparable one from a pizza place (where they are about $5?? I think that's what they are in delis, too, I can't remember!)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Overpriced? TRY QUIZNOS!

Unhealthy? TRY BLIMPIES!

― asdf troll, Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"eat fresh"? more like eat SHIT

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The meat is not fresh, but the vegetables are fresh. Maybe not the tomatoes, but the spinach is decent. It's nice to have lots of vegetables in a sandwich that you might not have on hand at home.

― youn, Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a good question--the question that started this thread--and i think i have been trying to answer it my entire life

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's white american cheese! They just leave it undyed so that you think it's some sort of special Subway cheese.

They have swiss and provolone, too! You just have to ask!

That said, Subway is okay, and I used to go there when it was close to my old job. But now that I'm mere blocks away from Jimmy John's, Potbelly's, AND Schlotzsky's, I have no reason to ever eat there again.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I said stuff on this thread, I think: TS:Quizno's vs Subway

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

you talked a whooooole lot of trash.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck yeah.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

you laid down the LAW!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

subway isn't "bland" in the slightest -- it's actively, aggressively disgusting!!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

One thing I like about Jimmy John's is that they don't have any weird sauces. Subway's big into shit like Spicy Southwestern Honey Ranch Red-Pepper Spread, and Quizno's is all about drenching your sandwich in Italian dressing -- but at Jimmy John's, it's just mayo, mustard, and/or guacamole. Simple. Seriously, I think that's key: all the veggie sandwich has on it is tomatoes, provolone, lettuce, sprouts, guacamole, and mayo (the latter of which I usually say no to). Perfect.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

all we have here is subway. this province is not so into the big sandwich paradigm. oh wait, there's a place called dagwoods (groan) that i've never been to.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

some mtl trivia: due to language laws, there are no apostrophes in restaurant (or any other business) names! thus we get dagwoods, bens, dunns, etc

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What?!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

subway isn't "bland" in the slightest -- it's actively, aggressively disgusting!!

hostile, even. insulting to the palate!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true jay!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

B-but what is the "language law" for -- is the apostrophe incomprehensible to the French-speaker?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this explains it more eloquently than i could: http://www.law.ualberta.ca/ccskeywords/bill_101.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, s1ocki. This is an interesting link, too: http://www.nthposition.com/queacutebechappens.php

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

really had a think about this the other night.. and I've decided subs are FUCKING GROSS.

― homosexual II, Monday, 14 April 2008 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

Totally concur with Homo.

― Tricksey Spinster, Monday, 14 April 2008 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

i had subway for dinner (the mediterranean chicken sub). i can't tell you whether it was fucking gross or not because in this disgustingly hot weather, everything that isn't an ice cube is fucking gross to me.

― get bent, Monday, 14 April 2008 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

like george hamilton's cock, these things get soggier and more limp every year

― akm, Monday, 14 April 2008 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

I have only ever had one, in JFK airport and it made me vomit copiously over the mid Atlantic, so dud.

― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

And even though they weren't expensive, I still manged to blow 3/4 of my entire holiday budget in Subway. A cautionary tale.

-- Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:23 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

I imagine having to buy three at a time so that you can use a chewed up Subway sandwich as a paste between two intact Subway sandwiches is kind of a drain on the finances

― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 14 April 2008 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Blimpie >>> Subway

― m coleman, Monday, 14 April 2008 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I had a subway sandwich for my lunch today - the nearest place to where I was working was this weird shopping mall near Murton, co.Durham, and I got tempted by the tasty smell coming out of the place. I ordered some thing with chicken and er some other stuff. It smelled nice, but had almost no flavour whatsoever (last time I had a subway, a few years ago, I seem to remember it being similarly flavourless) the strongest-tasting part of the concoction was the bread bun ffs.

about 1hr later I was working up a ladder when I got this terrible stomach cramp, and had to get down. I packed away my tools and shit, and asked one of the residents @ the apartment block where I was working where the nearest big store was to the place, because I had this impending feeling of terrible crapping. the guy invited me to use his lav, which was nice of him. I was getting kind of desperate, so I accepted. the guy had pictures of betty boop all over his walls, and on the wall ofthe lavatory room, a huge tom of finland poster. so I found myself, sitting on the toilet of a complete stranger in Darlington UK, staring at this picture of theis leather-clad dude with a huge cock visible inside his pants. or several mirrors with betty boop on them. It was kind of awesome, I guess, apart from the stomach pain.

Guy from Darlington = classic / subway sandwich = massive, massive DUD.

― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 May 2010 01:22 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

It would be the easiest thing in the world to add a pre-made olive salad to their line and offer a low-rent muffaletta.

― WilliamC, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:36 (thirteen years ago)

I was given a couple of Subway gift cards when I was a school bus driver, so I've eaten three of their sandwiches in the past two years. I always ordered the $5 foot long vegetarian sub with extra cheese. For a fast food place they seem to be much less objectionable than most. If I were paying my own money I'm not sure I'd go there, though.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:42 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

Subway is just the lamest of lame sandwiches. Ugh. No bueno.

― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:16 (twelve years ago)

I was almost tempted by the 2 for $5 offer they're doing now, and for the pulled pork, which I don't think they're ever had in the past, but then I thought, ehhhh, it's still Subway, and I don't want to sully the concept of pulled pork by trying theirs.

― nickn, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:30 (twelve years ago)

I can't remember what Homer was referring to in The Simpsons when he said "Look at it. Isn't it ADEQUATE?" but it could very well have been a Subway sandwich. It's possible to get an okay-ish sandwich there, and with all of the specials they run there's usually something that's like 3 dollars, so I don't get any of the "overpriced" complaints. And they are ubiquitous.

But their bread is soft and lame, and a footlong is way too big and would make me feel ill.

In summation: meh. I do eat there a fair amount, but there are so many better fast food sandwiches. Does anyone have a Which Wich? in their neighborhood? More expensive thatn Subway, and slow, but lots of choices and really pretty good.

― Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:58 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

this is the worst thing a human being can possibly eat

― example (crüt), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:40 (eleven years ago)

What kind did you have? Surely not worse than other fast food places...

― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:51 (eleven years ago)

mcdonalds isn't healthy but it doesn't send my digestive system into a total meltdown

― example (crüt), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:54 (eleven years ago)

two bozos brought their footlongs into the library and not only did they smell foul as fuck but because it was a library i could *hear* them chewing and swallowing and it just cut right through me

― brimstead, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)

subway uses regional produce, so the subways in CA > the subways in IN

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:05 (eleven years ago)

Does anyone have a Which Wich? in their neighborhood? More expensive thatn Subway, and slow, but lots of choices and really pretty good.

Waaaay too expensive, but pretty good and, because you can order online, you can just pick it up and eat by the time you get there.

Subway brings pastrami around every year like it's a big deal, but any respectable sub shop sells a superior pastrami sandwich year-round and it's not much more, if any more, expensive.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

yeah, I treat Subway ordering like Taco Bell ordering, i.e. you have to order only the cheapest absolute garbage items to justify your meal with a high goodness-to-cost ratio.

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:21 (eleven years ago)

Subway's best sandwich is one of their cheapest, the meatball marinara. Don't fuss around with a bunch of ingredients. Meatballs, cheese, pickles and mustard. Whammo! In and out in 3 minutes.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)

yes, it makes me want to cry when dudes load veggies on their meatball marinara.

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:32 (eleven years ago)

while traveling i used to rely on subway for a quick meal on the road when not many other options are available. it at least has a vegetarian option, unlike most fast food. it has been passable for me but we tried it again last week driving to see family at thanksgiving and it was terrible, what a gross sandwich. now we get off the highway and try to find a chinese place. chinese restaurants are everything and while they are not all good you can pretty much always get some kind of tofu with fresh vegetables and that goes a long way on the road when you're alternative is subway or mcdonalds garbage.

― marcos, Friday, 5 December 2014 22:32 (eleven years ago)

there is no such thing as a good cold veggie sandwich w/o hummus imo

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:34 (eleven years ago)

or I mean it needs some kinda of delicious spread that isn't mayo or mustard

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:34 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

Irish court rules Subway bread is not bread

― Nhex, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:17 (five years ago)

Never been prouder

― seumas milm (gyac), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:18 (five years ago)

Éire showing the way. *salute*

― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:20 (five years ago)

Also ruled Shane McGowan's teeth aren't teeth

― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:37 (five years ago)

if it's got that much sugar why does it still taste like a sponge

― frogbs, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:41 (five years ago)

-Bob Marley

― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:42 (five years ago)

the choice of bread at subway is like the three flavours of duff, it's all the same and it's all the absolute worst. also they somehow manage to make all the vegetables taste exactly the same, and all the sauces.

― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:17 (five years ago)

Don't you in Europe get the hot peppers?

― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:29 (five years ago)

they do, but they also taste of nothing. very slightly spicy nothing.

― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:31 (five years ago)

dammit I was just coming here to post Nhex's story

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 2 October 2020 14:29 (five years ago)

i'm kind of impressed with the fact that all the veggies at Subway perpetually look 4 days old. you'd think they had to be fresh at one point

whats weird is, as a kid, I remember Subway being really good. surely at some point they had better standards?

― frogbs, Friday, 2 October 2020 14:31 (five years ago)

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