Apologies if CS is not the right place. I’m asking for opinions, but this is about food so I thought CS might be, on balance, the right place.
And to explain the title. I am acknowledging that sauce recommendations might depend on the other ingredients.
I will also say that last time I visited, bewildered by the questioning style of the servers, I said no to sauce.
I love steak. I love cheese. I am intrigued by the American notion of combining the two (not yet well established into British ways*). Therefore the overwhelming favourite choice when I visit SubWay is that.
There is exactly one SubWay on the Isle of Man. It’s inside a Shoprite store (which was once a safeway, and is also the place where I had my first ever job, stacking the shelves of the grocery aisle)
And I have, in my entire life, had exactly three SubWay subs. One in Bolton and two from the IOM SubWay.
So I lack experience of SubWay.
[sub]*we’re still at steak on a plate with either chips [fat ‘fries’ only bearing that comparison by the fact that they are longer than they are wide, and are made of potato] or fried mushrooms, or onions, or both of the later] and some kind of runny grey sauce usually including peppercorns[/sub]
I had the same dilemma as you the first time I tried a Subway cheesesteak. I asked the server for a recommendation, and he suggested the ranch dressing. Since that day, I have probably had over 100 Subway cheesesteaks with ranch dressing. Of course, I am not able to eat spicy foods, so the other suggestions in this thread wouldn’t work for me. But I still think that a cheesesteak needs ranch dressing.
My follow-up question is - how do you pronounce it? Is it - ‘chip’-‘ol’-‘tul’?
I want to get it right so as not to suffer the temporary embarrassment.
ETA: SpoilerVirgin Your reply came in while I was typing mine. Ranch dressing also sounds good. in fact, with S&C almost anything might be good. I am not usually a fan of spiciness but I can tolerate (even enjoy) it to a certain degree.
I was going to suggest the ranch dressing as well, because that’s what I usually choose, but chipotle would be equally good. If you’re not in the mood for creamy, then the sweet onion is quite awesome.
Chip-Olt-Lay (its a type of roasted pepper that is currently very popular in Mexican and Tex-Mex cusine, and Subways Chipoltle sauce is very mild, and NOT highly spicy)
You’ve come to the right place. I am forever haunting the 24-hour Subway here over by Sukhumvit Soi 33/1 at 3 or 4am after a long night in the bars. I always order the foot-long Steak and Cheese sub, always with double meat and extra cheese. And I always have it with … Southwest sauce. Mmmmmm.
(They don’t call it Chipotle here, probably because Southwest is already hard enough for them to pronounce.)
Specifically, it’s a smoked jalapeno. It has become pretty ubiquitous and popular since the late 90s, early 00s in the US, but it’s always been a staple in Mexican cooking. It dates back to the Aztecs, supposedly.
For what it’s worth the Chipotle was originally offered by Subway specifically for the steak and cheese. It was add to the menu as the ‘Southwest steak and cheese’, but a couple years ago they started asking what sauce you want on any sub, rather than assuming certain ones for certain sub unless you told the different.
And buy the way, many of the deli type topping don’t work very well on the steak and cheese. Lettuce, pickles, cucs and olives are weird and wrong. Onions green peppers, hot peppers, are great and maybe tomatoes for some people, but not for me.
Gonna add another vote for the chipotle southwest, since that’s what the steak and cheese was designed for. I used to work at Subway, and that was one of the combos that became second nature to me. I don’t think it’s terribly spicy–I had it all the time, and I’m a complete baby when it comes to spice–but YMMV. (One of my coworkers there would make a fantastic taco salad using doritos, all the veggies, and chipotle southwest sauce. Om nom nom.)
You’re playing the hand you’ve been dealt, I understand, but Subway is considered (by me, at least) a fairly poor exemplar of American sub sandwiches. I find their meat quality to be pretty bad, and they skimp on the fillings, IME (is that kind of a perverse pair of complaints? Maybe). I’d much rather see you make a steak sandwich at home if that were an option.
You probably know this, and obviously people should combine as they wish, but a “proper” Philadelphia cheesesteak would have nothing other than some combination of beef, onions, peppers, and provolone (or Cheez Wiz).
