A case could be made that it is the little failures of civilization such as this that make these times so fucked up. yesterday - no pizza submarino; today - no fake crab grinder; tomorrow - we’re all knuckling around grunting at each other. It’s an obvious progression.
Oooog! Oooog! Awaaaaaaaah!!!
When they came for the pizza submarinos, I said nothing, for I was not a pizza submarino.
Yeah, that thing didn’t age well, did it?
Meh.
I had a pizza sub from Potbelly today, with pepperoni and a few hot peppers. They toast the wheat bun so it’s juuuuust crunchy on the outside and so warm and soft inside. The pepperoni was spicy, and the peppers were hot, but the flavor mix was just right – maybe it was the deliciously gooey marinara. Not so much that it was greasy, but just enough to serve as a fine glue for the rest of the sandwich. The mushrooms weren’t greasy or droopy, and put up just the right amount of resistance to being chewed. I washed it down with a cool IBC cream soda.
The service? Oh, the service was perfect.
I was in Subway today, and they had the seafood and crab sub still on the menu. They had changed the name to something else (maybe “Seafood Extravaganza!” or “Seafood Ersatz!”), but they still had it.
I don’t find it on the Subway website, though. Which might be good, because I just looked at the nutrition info for the 12" tuna on wheat I just ate. 62g of fat! I can only assume the s&c was similar, if not worse.
I always get either a wreck or an Italian when I go there. With the hot peppers and oil and italian seasonings. I’m usually sceptical of “pizza” sandwiches. Maybe I shall try the Potbelly’s version. I have faith in them.
What everyone is ignoring – either intentionally or for not reading the OP closely enough – isn’t so much that this “drama queen” offered something, but it was obviously the queeny attitude. Queeny-acting guys bother a lot of a people. Ludovic already had said goodbye. If Mr. Manly Man had said something in a baritone voice like this: “You know, you’re already here. The spaghetti’s pretty good, and it’ll save you another trip” then Ludovic probably wouldn’t be upset.
I know most of you guys; now you’re going to jump all over Ludovic for being anti-gay, whereas it’s not necessarily a gay thing. A straight guy acting in this irritating, non-rational, flambouanty nature is also going to be irritating as hell. For all I know, the dude wasn’t even gay – I’m just assuming. So okay, he’s straight. Stop acting like that. Fit in the culture of the clientele that your employer is paying for.
And then Fazoli’s went out of business. Oh, wait. Never mind.
Can you clarify something - did he actually run through a litany of obviously “too nice/extravagant for fazzoli’s” things such as Foie Gras, Dom P., Rack of Lamb in order to mock you, or did he just mention a few other things on the Fazzoli’s menu? I’m really confused about this point - if he did the former, he was obviously mocking you for being uppity, which is kind of hilarious and ballsy but also inappropriate. If he just said, “well, how about the lasagna or spaghetti?,” then you should probably check yourself into a mental institution for thinking that he did something wrong.
What you are saying above is completely ridiculous. The guy was polite, professional, and friendly. Why are you suggesting that he should behave any differently? Because we should, as a nation, further encourage the public’s tendency to get upset and angry about stupid things? To teach people that when reality presents itself in a manner that is slightly different than the way we would ideally want it to be we should react in like a small child throwing a fit? Sorry, but this is just absurd. If the cashier told him to fuck off or was being hostile, I could understand getting upset, but that was not the case at all. In fact, the opposite is true. Yet you’re saying that the cashier, who was doing what I would suspect is a largely thankless job and doing it with gusto, is the one who needs to change? What about the anger management issues of the guy storming out because a certain sandwich wasn’t available? Yeesh.
Incidentally, I’ve been to that restaurant before, about 7-8 years ago, and I can remember walking up to the cashier and her not saying a word to me. Not a single word, no sign of acknowledgement, nothing! I literally stood there for 5-10 seconds waiting for her to say something because her stare was so vacuous that I felt uncomfortable giving an order without some sort of initiation on her part! Maybe someone could upset about that (although I didn’t). That’s someone who is not putting their heart into their job.
The “Seafood Ersatzaganza”?
Well, I guess we can safely say that the OP is no longer the stupidest thing posted in this thread.
Sometimes when I read a thread, I start to wonder if the medication is interfering with my ability to understand and relate to reality, because nothing in the thread makes sense.
So, wait, Ludovic, am I to understand that the guy behind the counter mocked you and suggested that you were an elitist because you asked for something they were out of? A smarmy reference to Dom Perignon implies that he thought you were behaving haughtily. See, where the narrative falls apart is where you admit to “exaggerating” what the service dude said. Did he offer some ravioli and breadsticks? Or did he actually sarcastically offer something Fazoli’s doesn’t carry? Because if it’s the former, what you did in retelling was not exaggerating so much as completely altering the story, and making it rather incomprehensible to boot (throwing in class antagonism that wasn’t originally present). If it’s the latter, and he mocked you by offering a meal that the restaurant doesn’t serve, then there’s details missing and the story doesn’t make sense, because there’s nothing in your telling of the story that should have triggered class resentment on the service dude’s part.
Most people have been interpreting your (again, not entirely comprehensible) story to mean you’ve spent the last two years offended because someone behind a counter at a fast food place apologized for being out of one food and offered something else instead. That makes no sense at all. I can’t freaking tell what actually happened here - but at least as you’ve told it, it doesn’t appear that he was anything except perfectly professional. Don’t become a storyteller, because you don’t seem to be able to string together a convincing narrative.
I can’t even tell if this is serious or not. You’re claiming that it’s clear from the OP (when, as I’ve discussed, there’s nothing at all clear in the OP) that the service person was behaving in an irritatingly effeminate manner. Ludovic didn’t say that at all - you’re reading something of your own into it. Perhaps you’ve made this conclusion on the basis of the word “fabulous”, but as Ludovic himself acknowledged that he wasn’t reporting the service person’s speech accurately, choosing one word he said as the basis for concluding anything at all about his attitude seems tenuous.
At any rate, if you seriously believe that someone’s effeminate manner is something worth being pissed about for two and a half years, there’s something very seriously the matter with you. If it upsets you so much to see someone in public acting “queeny” - stereotypically gay (whether or not the person acting “queeny” is really gay or not is immaterial) - then yes, you’re quite clearly anti-gay. If seeing someone who appears to be gay makes you angry for the next two and a half years, then not only are you anti-gay, but you’ve got major emotional problems of some variety. I hope, for Ludovic’s sake, that what you’ve read into his completely opaque narrative is not true.
So, Ludovic, what actually happened in this encounter (no “exaggerations” this time, please.) Can you retell the story in a way that the rest of us will be able to understand at all why you’re upset? Because, as I’ve said, your OP just doesn’t make any sense.
Maybe if it was a big outlaw biker and he yelled “We ain’t got no fucking pizza submarino shit” and then thrown a punch, that would have been cool. It’s butch and manly. Just don’t flounce and say “Fabulous!” Get a grip sister girlfriend. 
Coincidentally, I too was at a Fazoli’s about two and a half years ago. I asked the counter-man what he recommended and he replied, “you’ve got to try our Pizza Submarino’s, they’re fabulous!”.
I replied, “sir, bring on that Pizza Submarino, it sounds like a winner”.
He said, “matter of fact, you can have this one for free…some drama queen was just in here asking for one and I joked that we didn’t have them anymore, but why not try some Dom Perignon and minted lamb instead. I put in his order, but before I returned with his Pizza Submarino and change from his $20 (I don’t believe that he remembered paying me beforehand), he got red in the face and sauntered out. Some guy’s just can’t take a joke! Anyway, take his Pizza Submarino…it’s already paid for”.
And so, I did. And I must concur…Crispy on the underside yet still chewable, with the most delectable spices and meat and tomato sauce and steamy cheese on top. Mmmmmmm 
Ich bin ein Berliner!
So, Ludovic, you coming back to your thread any time soon? Some clarification would be good.
Hey, if the pizza submarino will put out, I’ll have one as well.