I always order double meat. On a steak and cheese footlong, they can’t even get the bread to close. It’s really packed in.
I realize they are probably a poor example of an American sub, but like you say, it’s the hand I’ve been dealt.
I’d like to make one at home - but there I have an even worse situation - the bread. Locally bought bread is almost never as fresh as it tends to be in England (where I grew up and occasionally visit). I wonder if I can buy bread from Subway?
You can order double meat??? I’m so doing that next time.
Also, a pet peeve of mine of general sandwich creation (Mcdonalds, KFC etc…) is seeming to be incapable of getting all the parts in the middle.
I’m pretty sure you can buy just the bread.
So far as Subway being a bad sub shop, I don’t really get it. It’s not fantastic, but it’s horrible, either. It’s a sub shop specializing in cold cuts for the most part. It’s pretty hard to screw up.
Watch out. Knowing Sam, there are Thai Bar Girls involved somehow.
Another vote for Sweet Onion sauce, also - stuff the rest of the salad, all that’s required for a perfect steak and cheese sub is tomato and onion.
I can’t say if it’s offered everywhere, but for the equivalent of 2 or 3 bucks American here, you can get double meat on a footlong, and maybe $1.50 for extra cheese. (Half those amounts for the 6" subs, but I always go for the footlong.) I’ll tell ya, that’s one satisfying sandwich, especially at 4am.
No, no, we’re talking different meat here. 
They’re pretty skimpy with their portions, their variety of deli meats is pretty abysmal compared to whats available at other lunch counters where I live (Northeast, USA), and they put the stems of banana peppers on the subs. What that means is that I’ll eat there but not if there is any sub/pizza shop nearby too. At least they’re not as bad as Quiznos (No provolone, everything run through an oven).
For the OP: sweet onion, southwest chipotle, or buffalo sauce. If they have Worcestershire sauce, that’s pretty good in moderation on a steak and cheese sandwich too.
Yeah, that’s what I was headed for. Realizing the OP doesn’t have access to the average Italian deli or neighborhood sandwich shop, Subway usually turns up notably below those standards. I always have the feeling the sandwiches are kind of limp, soggy, doughy. But, I’ve obviously partaken in a pinch.
The Subway “made fresh daily” bread, by the way, is a bit of a bait and switch. Yes, it’s put in baking ovens daily. But it’s made, I am pretty sure, from pre-fab frozen dough that’s shipped in. I’ve never been that impressed.
Subway is no place for a steak n cheese or an Italian for that matter.
But, since that’s what we have to work with.
Chipolte(southwest) is pretty much what goes with it well.
I on the other hand prefer green pepper, onion, jalapenos, American Cheese, Salt Pepper and Mayonnaise. Subway has no mushrooms, other wise I get that too.
Double meat is or even one extra lil’ box of meat is pretty standard for me too, otherwise it’s all bread. But, filling still.
The rolls at subway are frozen and need to be humidified before baking. They cost as much as a sandwich so, might as well buy the whole sandwich there. I had worked at Subway once. They count the breads.
You can make it at home with fresh store bought Italian or French Bread loaves.
The problem is the meat, if you can’t slice a steak thinly with some kinda machine, you’ll have to get a butcher to do it. It has to be a fresh steak. Lunch meat or roast beef aint gonna do it. Better off just getting steak-ums.
Just get a pile of shredded steak(sirloin or similar), season with a lil salt n pepper, diced onions, green pepper mushrooms and jalapenos, fry up in a bit of oil till it looks cooked then toss a couple slices of cheese on it while it frying till cheese melty, then scoop up into your bread. Add some mayo or your fav sauce. A1 steak sauce is good too. Or a thicken some whorchester sauce with arrowroot.
You can use some beef stock and onions for a french dip style. 
Its important to get GOOD BREAD like amiroso rolls or the fresh baked big loaves, not those fake hoagie white bread rolls. Subway bread is tolerable but, it is hardly really good, compared to the better bread types.
Have fun!
Of course, I probably should point out that with Thai bargirls, you can also get double meat for a little extra cash.
So I’m in Subway again at 3:30am this morning (Friday morning), and I have my wonderful foot-long steak and cheese – with double meat and extra cheese – and I choose the Southwest sauce, and what do I see on the bottle? It says: “Chipotle Southwest.” I never noticed the “chipotle” before, but then I’d never paid attention to the bottle itself. It simply jumped out at me this time. The list taped to the Plexiglass just says “Southwest.”
And I can tell you now that here, double meat for a foot-long is 90 baht (US$2.65) and extra cheese 20 baht (59 cents). Man, that becomes one big-ass sandwich, let me tell ya.
I used to wonder what people’s problem with Subway was. I’ve always thought they made good sandwiches.
That is until a friend of mine took me to a real sub shop. Now that I’ve been awakened, I can’t eat that garb they sell at Subway anymore. Wich kind of sucks because Subway is so much cheaper and convenient to go to.
Should’ve swallowed the blue pill dammit!!
I always liked the A1 sauce on the steak and cheese. Not sure if they still have it, though.
IMHO, Subway is to sandwiches as McDonald’s is to burgers or Taco Bell is to “Mexican” food: a fairly decent place to eat once in a while, but they’re all over the damn place, they have competitors that taste significantly better, and they don’t really have to try harder because so many people eat there by default (because they’re so ubiquitous and so heavily advertised).
I randomly stumbled across this forum and I would just like to say That as a 19 year old who works at subway and loves The Steak and Cheese sandwich:
- I get the italian herb and cheese bread
- I get the pepper jack cheese
- I put onions and peppers on it AND then I toast it (with the meat of course)
- I put olives on after it is toasted
- I use chipotle southwest AND Ranch
- Lastly… I top it off with a whole bunch of Parmesan cheese because parmesan cheese makes everything better!
As not a lot of people realize, we sometimes get bored with the classics as do some customers and people will come up with other random sandwiches, like a spicy italian but with Marinara sauce (from the meatballs) on flatbread and toasted with cheese and olives, onions, peppers, and banana peppers and end up with parmesan at the end to make a pizza sandwich, or we make random sandwiches like tuna with bacon,italian bmt with bacon or turkey instead of ham, and stuff like that. I Honestly find most of my new combinations from Walmart employees who are on their lunch breaks. lmao But anyone who comes to subway has the right to ask for any of our topping on their sandwich, even the meatball marinara sauce.
I’m looking at Google Earth, which shows two Subway restaurants on the island, one in Douglas and one in Peel. This destroys my image of IOM as a quaint antiquity. Anyway, if it’s anything like the Subway shops here in Korea, they probably have “Southwest sauce,” which is chipotle with some mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. You might also want to try A-1 or Heinz 57, both of which combine ketchup with Worcestershire sauce, and I think Heinz adds some kind of mango extract as well.
They must have expanded in the eight years since the OP was posted. 
It’s now called Isle of Men, hey-ohhhhh!
Okay, it’s two in the morning and now I’m craving a cheesesteak. Dammit. (I know what I’m having for dinner tomorrow, if possible)