# New Quizno's commercial Tests my gag reflex **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420 "2004-02-04T02:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/21 "2004-02-05T02:42:43Z")
My almost-11-year-old daughter and I saw this ad for the first time tonight, and we had the same reaction: “Is that a **rat**? Why would a food place use rats in their ads?” ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/22 "2004-02-05T02:46:49Z")
I **love** the ad. When do you **ever** see weirdness like that on TV? It’s like something out of Rob Schimmel’s TV Funhouse. (BTW, the little beasts aren’t rats; they appear to tarsiers, which are actually primates.) ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/23 "2004-02-05T04:30:13Z")
Pitty for you guys, because they are actually very good sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/24 "2004-02-05T05:21:31Z")
Saw it for the first time tonite. While it had zero impact either way on my appetite, it did make me smile. ---
**Author:** ![DogsLunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DogsLunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogsLunch)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/25 "2004-02-05T07:29:24Z")
If these guys are twelve then it’s funny and creative. Otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![MinniePurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MinniePurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinniePurl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/26 "2004-02-05T07:44:23Z")
Well, it certainly is an attention-getting ad. My husband and I were going around making up new lyrics to it: “We are dead rats, we’re in your Quizno Sub”. I don’t think it’s going to make us buy any sandwiches, however. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/27 "2004-02-05T08:46:00Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > We like the SUBS > > Cause they are good for us. > Sounds like a health claim to me. Not a really strong one. I think it’s just a parody of the original songs lyrics, “we like the moon, cause it is close to us”. Quizno’s subs are among the most unhealthy things on the planet, although the Schlotzsky’s Deluxe still reigns supreme with 2000+ calories. Yes, two _thousand_. A 120 lb. pregnant woman would get her entire required daily caloric intake from just _one_ of those things. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/28 "2004-02-05T09:23:04Z")
I like the ad. But then I’m always happy to see anything that’s not shots of an SUV from different angles flashing on the screen at about 1 per second, with extremely loud, bad, and annoying rock music. And their subs are good, although kind of expensive. ---
**Author:** ![OM\_Waterfall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@OM\_Waterfall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OM_Waterfall)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/29 "2004-02-05T11:47:55Z")
I thought that ad was freakin HILARIOUS!! However, what puzzles me is that I live outside of US and Canada, yet I still manage to visit Quiznos without much trouble, although the Quiznos I go to bears absolutely no resemblance to that on the site, though it does make delicious sandwiches and always seems to be giving away free “samples”. Oh well, now I have another reason for listing Quiznos as my favourite fast food joint- an ad by an unrelated company! ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/30 "2004-02-05T12:00:44Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Again someone seems to have forgotten that the point of an Ad is to make people want to buy their product. Again I won’t be going to Quiznos. No, I don’t anyone forgot anything… I’ve never had a Quizno’s sub, but I now plan to. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/31 "2004-02-05T12:01:52Z")
Insert the word “think” in the previous post where ever you think it fits best… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/32 "2004-02-05T12:44:47Z")
1 since its advertising their chilipote sauce they thought it was funny to have hispanic looking rats singing in a speedy gonalez accent 2 why theres no complaints yet on how racist it is… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/33 "2004-02-05T13:06:55Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > 1 since its advertising their chilipote sauce they thought it was funny to have hispanic looking rats singing in a speedy gonalez accent > > 2 why theres no complaints yet on how racist it is… Doesn’t sound even vaguely like Speedy Gonzalez to me. Maybe that’s why there haven’t been many complaints (if indeed there haven’t been). ---
**Author:** ![mailman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mailman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mailman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/34 "2004-02-05T18:04:44Z")
Okay, I saw a revised version of the commercial last night and ther \*was \* an “extreme close up of a perfectly crafted sub.” Scratch that one from my list. Secondly, in this new version, the obnoxious factor was greatly reduced, as was the shock value, and I liked it a lot less. My guess is that the powers-that-be in the Quiznos empire are having second thoughts about the whole thing. [You might say they don’t have the stomach for this ad campaign.] Looks like they’ve decided to ratchet the attitude down a little bit. In my view they are wimping out. I should also explain that when I said the chances of me eating one of their subs was nil, it had nothing to do with this ad. I don’t eat at chains very often to begin with, and there’s no Quiznos around here. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/35 "2004-02-05T19:29:57Z")
Funniest damn thing I’ve seen in ages (and I have a 2 year old)! Nearly wet my trousers laughing. Never eaten there, but for a buck off, I might try it. Looks kinda tasty and I need to add some strange to my daily lunch menu. I especially like the little guy in the pirate hat playing guitar. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/36 "2004-02-05T19:41:58Z")
> [@RexDart](#): > > Quizno’s subs are among the most unhealthy things on the planet, although the Schlotzsky’s Deluxe still reigns supreme with 2000+ calories. Yes, two _thousand_. A 120 lb. pregnant woman would get her entire required daily caloric intake from just _one_ of those things. I cannot allow this egregious slam against my beloved Schlotzsky’s Deli go unchallenged! The LARGE Deluxe Original has 1785 calories. Note however, that the large sandwiches at Schlotzsky’s are marketed as “Family-Size”–not something that a single person eats(\*)! The Regular Deluxe Original (the single-person serving) has a “mere” 930 calories. (Note also that the Deluxe is the double-mean version of the Schlotzsky’s Original, which clocks in at 738 calories.) [http://www.schlotzskys.com/nutrition.html](http://www.schlotzskys.com/nutrition.html) (\*Okay, when pressed, I will admit that I have eaten a large Schlotsky’s Original, but over the course of an entire day!) ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/37 "2004-02-05T19:44:56Z")
I didn’t mean to say that the Deluxe Original is twice as _mean_ as the Original, but that it has twice as much _meat_. Also, I like those Quizno’s ads… but I already have Schlotsky’s to satisfy my fattening-sandwich needs. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/38 "2004-02-05T20:24:29Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > 1 since its advertising their chilipote sauce they thought it was funny to have hispanic looking rats singing in a speedy gonalez accent > > 2 why theres no complaints yet on how racist it is… At the risk that I am being whooshed here, would you care to point out the exact features that indicate to you that those things are hispanic? And I don’t detect anything about the accent that would indicate that either. Actually, I would think it would be even more racist to see any kind of similarity between such mutated creatures and any particular ethnic group (besides bizarre mutants, that is.) I think it’s hilarious, but I was already familiar with [rathergood.com](http://rathergood.com). Those things aren’t rats, by the way. The one on the left is definitely a bush baby, or [galago](http://www.uaf.edu/museum/mammal/Hayward/Img0039.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/39 "2004-02-05T20:45:45Z")
Holy shit, I agree with the OP completely. These disgusting commercials have been bugging the shit out of me for a week. I keep wondering, what the fuck are they thinking??? The “rats” or whatever the fuck they are, look like dead shrivelled-up rodent caracases. They have cut-out eyeballs and a nasty set of teeth pasted where the head would go. They have little hats and dance around and sing in the most horrid annoying voices imaginable. The look and sound like retarded rodent zombies who came alive after eating nuclear waste and burrowed into a Quizno’s. I think it is one of the worst, stupidest commercials I have ever seen. I can’t imagine how anyone could like them!! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420/40 "2004-02-05T21:17:04Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > Pitty for you guys, because they are actually very good sandwiches. Hmm…sandwiches that taste good advertised by commercials with bad taste. Maybe _that’s_ what their ad department is going for? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quiznos-commercial-tests-my-gag-reflex/227420.md?page=3)