Saw an ad for this last night, and, as a New Yorker, I naturally thought, “a Brooklyn Mass Transit Subway sandwich?” That sounds unappetizing, if you have ever taken a Brooklyn subway.
Alternately, a Bowel Movement and Tomato sandwich? Ewww. So I Googled, and found it is a “Biggest, Meatiest, Tastiest” sandwich. *Not *what anyone would think hearing “BMT.”
Maybe for dessert you can have some of Jamie Lee Curtis’ Poop Yogurt (I also saw one of those commercials where people send Jamie Lee Curtis poop diaries and she airs them!).
Well, the BMT hasn’t been around for years. It went out of business in 1940, but the name was still used for some time afterwards. However, the designation was phased out in the 80s.
The name is clearly a nod to the actual subway, though. Subway started by identifying itself with the NYC subway, including maps and articles on their wallpaper.
Somehow I’ve never noticed the name of that sandwich (since I don’t eat beef or pork I would have passed right by it) so am surprised to see it is a long standing name and not something just introduced. According to this site, Subway officially changed what BMT stood for in 1975.
Fortunately not all of us make the connection and just appreciate it for what it is… a really good sandwich! I’ve been eating these (on their Italian Herb and Cheese bread, pepper jack cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato, mayo and spicy mustard) for a few years now. It is my go to sandwich at Subway.
And even to me “Subway” is a sandwich store much more than a train that runs underground.
Actually, as a New Yorker you should have naturally thought “Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit”, and with Wiki and Google ever present you have no excuse even if you’re younger than 30.
Well, I’m still waiting for someone to come out with a LGBT sandwich (lettuce, gouda, bacon, tomato? Gherkin? Guacamole? There’s certainly possibilities enough…).
Thanks, I’m glad to know what “BMT” stands for, finally - I order those fairly regularly and my best guess was “bread, meat, and toppings.”
My household is a big consumer of plain yogurt. I was startled recently when I looked (really looked at a tub of plain Activia yogurt.)
I don’t find an actual image of the package, but it is mostly this.
You got your faux-scientific tradename for their particular culture of lactobacillus which hits you over the head with the Promise of Pooping. You got your arrow indicating passage through the alimentary canal of a stylized human torso. It’s not pictured in my link, but this arrow points directly at an image of a spoonful of yogurt.
That at least makes sense on a yogurt tub, right? But wait! Look at that spoonful. It looks like this - only more so. Note that the yogurt has clearly not found its way onto the spoon through the usual spoony method, but has rather been extruded through a small aperture, giving it the characteristic appearance of soft serve ice cream or a novelty dog turd.
The only reasonable explanation I can imagine for this packaging is that it has allowed some marketing executive to collect a very handsome bet.
If they’re serving a sandwich that, according to the web site contains pepperoni, Genoa sausage, and Black Forest ham and yet everything is turkey based I think I want it even less. (I don’t like the bread or cheese at Subway so they’re already at the bottom of my list, generally relegated to remote truck stops on road trips.)
