As a BDSM practitioner I was very excited by the title of this thread and considerably less excited by the content.
I’m a big fan of Subway’s Steak and Cheese, the footlong with double meat and extra cheese. The other menu items all pale in comparison, I’ve stopped trying them.
My usual Subway order is a 12 inch egg salad on cheese bread with all toppings* except cheese, olives and jalapenos, plus mustard.
*Note: Canadian Subway restaurants may not have the same toppings as U.S. Subways.
to me the make or break things on an “italian” sub are
- the bread
- the tomatoes.
Subway bread is “meh” at best. It’s no better than packaged store-bought. Much better are the smaller, local places who either bake their own bread daily (Bommarito’s) or at least get it daily from a nearby bakery (V. Gonella’s.)
Tomatoes are a lost cause.
My options were a little but limited given the time of the night. Most everything was closed. Although I like Subway, but again I don’t eat out often so anything I don’t make myself seems exotic.
Italian BMT is my automatic order at Subway. I like it with spinach, cucumbers, onion, and black olives, with vinegar and oil. I often eat just half of a footlong and eat the other half later, and I’ve found spinach and cucumber to hold up much better than iceberg lettuce and tomato in the fridge over time; lettuce and tomato on a sandwich just turn into mush after just a couple of hours in the fridge.
And is it just me or is there something not quite right about the cheese Subway uses? It generally tastes of nothing, no matter what kind you get, and it always seems to break down within the sandwich, not like melting but more like just disintegrating into the other fillings. Really weird.
Don’t forget that the BMT is on special as the sub of the day every Thursday.
I usually just get the tuna sub at Subway. Two reasons:
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[li]I don’t like vegetables with my turkey or roast beef. Slap it on a roll with some mayo or Russian. Anything else only detracts from it.[/li][li]The “fresh” meats at Subway usually are awful. Roast beef is gray, and turkey is slimy. Ham is out of the question. Other mixed meats are appalling.[/li][/ul]
I certainly didn’t mean to denigrate your choice of subs. I suppose it’s a regional thing, as in the NYC area, most random sub shops are better than Subway. So I just expected to hear about a great sandwich that I’d not heard of before. I certainly wasn’t thinking about it the same way as Der Trihs
But you trust them completely with fish and mayonnaise?
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Seconded. It’s far superior to any other.
But, you can buy a little jar of Beano’s sub dressing and a little shaved lettuce and make a sub way better than the also-rans.
I hate you. 
Now I’m hungry.
I remember great sub shops when I lived in Niagara Falls. In South Texas, not so much. 'Course we do have great Mexican food on every corner. Life is trade-offs, eh?
I still remember a sub I used to get that I’ve tried to replicate at home with no success. It was an omelet, with cucumbers, and oil & vinegar dressing. I think that’s all that was on it…maybe a smidgen of cheese. Soft white roll. The omelet was warm and a little bit creamy in the center, and paired with the crisp, cold cucumbers… <sigh>
Very true. I lived in Houston for a couple of years and the only sub that was half-decent was the Blimpie’s. And the pizza was atrocious. I remember that I would look out for new “New York style” pizza establishments and try them out. One of these was started by a family that moved down from Brooklyn and had owned numerous successful pizza spots in NY. But they just couldn’t get the pizza right in Houston. They blamed the water and the humidity.
But the Mexican food was tremendous. I had an internship in Angleton and I would eat authentic Mexican almost every day. After I came back to the NYC area, I avoided Mexican or Tex-Mex like the plague. It just didn’t compare.
No worries. I didn’t take it that way. I just felt like I should explain my eccentricity.
Publix subs are so much better than Subway.
Then my work here is done. They also sell catfish and chicken po’boys, muffalettas, gumbo, jambalaya and beignets. It’s an absolute gem in a sea of bad food.
Anybody craving a dom?
It’s also the fast food chain with the most locations in the world, beating out McDonald’s and Starbucks. That’s why nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded!
Capriotti’s uber alles.