# A "BMT" sandwich, Subway? Really? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539 "2012-02-21T17:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/1 "2012-02-21T17:43:31Z")
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!). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/2 "2012-02-21T17:52:50Z")
Where’s **Super Kapowzler** when you need him? And shit. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/3 "2012-02-21T17:54:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/4 "2012-02-21T18:05:19Z")
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](http://www.ehow.com/about_5031823_history-subway-sandwiches-franchise.html), Subway officially changed what BMT stood for in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/5 "2012-02-21T18:11:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/6 "2012-02-21T18:13:13Z")
It’s not Bacon, Mutton, and Tomato? Shame. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/7 "2012-02-21T18:29:20Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > as a New Yorker, I naturally thought, “a Brooklyn Mass Transit Subway sandwich?” Actually, as a New Yorker you should have naturally thought “Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit”, and with [Wiki and Google ever present](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%E2%80%93Manhattan_Transit_Corporation) you have no excuse even if you’re younger than 30. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/8 "2012-02-21T18:34:10Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > It’s not Bacon, Mutton, and Tomato? > > Shame. That’s the first thing I thought of too. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/9 "2012-02-21T18:37:10Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > That’s the first thing I thought of too. Me three… I wonder if the Princess Bride movie had anything to do with that connection. (Max the Miracle man raving about a good ‘MLT’…) No tomatoes on mine, please. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/10 "2012-02-21T18:38:30Z")
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…). ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/11 "2012-02-21T18:48:39Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > It’s not Bacon, Mutton, and Tomato? > > Shame. Where the mutton is nice and lean? I thought of that. I did think “train” also. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/12 "2012-02-21T18:53:57Z")
Perhaps the ‘poop diaries’ comment in the op belongs in the commercials you hate thread. i certainly hate em - but I like the bmt sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/13 "2012-02-21T19:09:23Z")
FWIW, **obfusciatrist** , I think the menu says that the BMT meats are all turkey based so you might be able to avoid four-footed animals in your diet. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/14 "2012-02-21T19:09:52Z")
So a Golden BMT, typically six inches or a foot long? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/15 "2012-02-21T19:15:30Z")
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.” > [@Eve](#): > > Maybe for dessert you can have some of Jamie Lee Curtis’ Poop Yogurt… 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](http://www.strictlyfab.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/activia.jpg). 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](http://activia.us.com/images/product-hero/fiber_vanilla_cereal.png) - 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. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/16 "2012-02-21T19:44:46Z")
> [@Belrix](#): > > FWIW, **obfusciatrist** , I think the menu says that the BMT meats are all turkey based so you might be able to avoid four-footed animals in your diet. 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/17 "2012-02-21T19:45:15Z")
> [@Belrix](#): > > FWIW, **obfusciatrist** , I think the menu says that the BMT meats are all turkey based so you might be able to avoid four-footed animals in your diet. Not quite: “Genoa salami, spicy pepperoni, Black Forest ham and all your favorite crisp veggies.” Other than the veggies I’m pretty sure most pigs have four feet. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/18 "2012-02-21T19:51:53Z")
Bacon Mayo and tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/19 "2012-02-21T19:56:58Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > I’m pretty sure most pigs have four feet. Not the really \*good \*ones: “Pig \*that \*good, ya don’t wanna eat all at once.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539/20 "2012-02-21T20:01:21Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Other than the veggies I’m pretty sure most pigs have four feet. > [@Eve](#): > > Not the really \*good \*ones: “Pig \*that \*good, ya don’t wanna eat all at once.” And when you take the second leg, the pork becomes lean. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bmt-sandwich-subway-really/613539.md?page=2)