# Subway, over-priced food, pseudo sandwich artists, and you. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833 "2001-10-26T18:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/41 "2001-10-27T04:26:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > > \*\*…Due to American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup]… \*\* > > That’s _Mister_ American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup] to you! \*\* Surely you mean **Uncle** American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup]? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/42 "2001-10-27T04:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > > > \*\*…Due to American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup]… \*\* > > > > That’s _Mister_ American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup] to you! \*\* > > Surely you mean **Uncle** American Imperialism[sup]TM[/sup]? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/43 "2001-10-27T07:15:34Z")
Dammit **Cynical** Don’t do that! THought I went crazy there for a minute. And, FTR, **Demo** couldn’t handle me, even if I were gay… Sam ---
**Author:** ![shannybonanny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@shannybonanny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannybonanny)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/44 "2001-10-27T19:14:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > **\Is it good? Without ever tasting Zenster’s own concoctions, I’m going to say Subway pales in comparison to his. But it’s still one of the best Sub shops out there and I’m comparing it to Mr. Goodcents with their watered down meats and Yello Sub, a local chain as well as a few others.\** Yello Sub! 😃 I love Yello Sub. It takes me an hour to get to Lawrence for one, but it’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/45 "2001-10-27T19:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr Pud \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by vandal \* > > \*\*Now, however, they’re cutting the bread in some half-ass idiotic asinine fucked up kinda way. \*\* > > Mmmmm, Subway… > Count me as another vote for the Old Way of Slicing[sup]TM[/sup]. > [And we’re not alone!](http://spine.cx/subway/rant.php) \*\* I have to say, an interesting rant, but if he’s truly serious, the man has some SERIOUS issues he needs to work out. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/46 "2001-10-27T20:45:44Z")
I love subway but I think the condiments are better in Canada. In Canada the hot peppers are the Hot Cherry Peppers in red and yellow AND there is BBQ sauce to be had. In the US you either get non-spicy banana peppers or jalapeno peppers, rarely find BBQ sauce or it just doesn’t taste the same as the BBQ sauce used in Montreal. Still, I find that you can construct a decent sandwich with mustard and vinegar. My favourite is still the one I can get in Canada. 6 inch veggie on wheat with lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, pickles, hot peppers, cheese, mustard and BBQ sauce. I can also eat it without the cheese if I feel like it. I either get the turkey or the veggie. And like other posters have said, you shouldn’t be eating the chips if you want the purported diet to have any effect. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/47 "2001-10-27T21:13:11Z")
Okay, for lunch today I went to Subway for a meatball sub and they cut the bread in the old canoe style. I noticed that other subs were being made with the book cut. ---
**Author:** ![Steev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Steev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steev)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/48 "2001-10-28T00:07:09Z")
Yeah, maybe I _do_ have some issues to work out, but that seemed to be the thing that pissed me off the most in recent memory 🙂 I think I’ll need a lot more signatures than I currently have if I really want Subway corporate to listen to me though. If you’re gonna check out that site, then why not check out the main site I work on: [http://spine.cx](http://spine.cx). It’s not much yet, but maybe someday… Write me a rant, submit me some news, or photoshop a picture at spine.cx. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > I have to say, an interesting rant, but if he’s truly serious, the man has some SERIOUS issues he needs to work out. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/49 "2001-10-28T05:24:50Z")
Screw Subway–I’ll take any of a number of totally sweet, non-chain, mom-and-pop sub places in my town. But for corporate cold cuts, for my money you can’t beat the hoagies at Sheetz gas stations. They are totally awesome and a footlong (any kind) is $3.99 between 4 and midnight. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/50 "2001-10-28T13:54:45Z")
I’m not going to talk down Subway, I eat there occasionally… about once every three or four year just to make sure it’s as bad as I remembered (it always is). There are only 70 or 80 places in Baltimore that have better sandwiches than Subway. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/51 "2001-10-28T18:26:21Z")
My little Lebanese grocer is better when it comes to making great sandwiches. I spent a little over seven dollars for lunch the other day and this is what I got: Smoked chicken and feta sandwich with cucumbers, sweet pepper spread, lettuce, and tomato on freshly baked bread: $2.99 Powerade: $1.75 Banana: .26 Chips: .99 Big Turk: .75 I then went next door and picked up a few pieces of really great baclava and some sesame seed and pistachio cookies for $1.20 Yes, I ate it all. The english cucumber and tomato were sliced after I ordered, the pepper spread is awesome and Subway simply doesn’t make a smoked chicken and feta sandwich. The 2.99 “sammich” weighs a little over half a pound with at least an inch of smoked chicken. They offer a “super” sandwich for $4.99 and one of these days I will have to order one, apparently… it will feed a small family. I don’t go to Subway any more, go figure. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/52 "2001-10-28T20:59:43Z")
I had a dream last night where I went to a Subway and I was only wearing the bottom part of a bikini. I ordered my standard BLT on white, but they kept putting all this crap on it without asking me and I got so pissed off that they wouldn’t make my damn sandwich correctly. I paid for it (one sandwich set me back something like $26.50) and threw it away without even unwrapping it. I have the weirdest dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/53 "2001-10-29T05:01:34Z")
> [@](#): > > There are only 70 or 80 places in Baltimore that have better sandwiches than Subway. Count me in as a fan of roasted chicken with American cheese, mustard, mayo, and green peppers - I get that about twice a week (with Utz’s chips, if they have them - none of this pansyass baked shit.)However, I gotta go with Who me? here. There’s a great, cheaper Italian sub shop right fown from the Subway in Fell’s Point; you don’t have to get Domino’s or Papa John’s because we have Matthew’s New York Deep Dish AND Spartan’s Pizzaria right in Highlandtown. Why eat hot dogs at the ballpark when you can stop by Coney Island Hot Dogs and get a foot-long for $3 (with a drink)? I think every other building in Butcher’s Hill is a mom-and-pop sub shop or deli. I love Baltimore. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/54 "2001-10-29T07:07:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > **I had a dream last night where I went to a Subway and I was only wearing the bottom part of a bikini. I ordered my standard BLT on white, but they kept putting all this crap on it without asking me and I got so pissed off that they wouldn’t make my damn sandwich correctly.** Well maybe they were looking at your – oh forget it. _:: d & r ::_ ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/55 "2001-10-29T16:09:08Z")
Recipe for toritlla chips: Buy a package of corn tortillas. Cut 'em up. Fry 'em. Throw kosher salt at 'em. Doesn’t seem to me to be a really difficult thing one has to think about. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/56 "2001-10-30T02:59:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > > **I had a dream last night where I went to a Subway and I was only wearing the bottom part of a bikini. I ordered my standard BLT on white, but they kept putting all this crap on it without asking me and I got so pissed off that they wouldn’t make my damn sandwich correctly.** > > Well maybe they were looking at your – oh forget it. > > _:: d & r ::_ \*\* The worst thing was that they were putting gross stuff on my sandwich _on purpose_. Stupid jerks. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/57 "2001-10-30T05:54:06Z")
I could be so bad to you all and make it so you never want to eat subway again! Bwahahahahaha! As for their meat portions they are pre-packaged. I know this since I used to slice and pouch in the Subway department at Oscar Mayer. Pretty neat how they slice it out. Three slicers, three slices of roast beef, three slices of turkey, and three slices of ham to one sheet of deli wrap. That is for the BLT, but who knows how they divide it once it leaves the plant and goes to the stores. Do you get nine slices? I can only guess that the prices are a bit high since they have that contract with OM for the meat. We still make it and slice it, and I’m sure it’s not cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/58 "2001-10-30T17:35:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Necros \* > \*\*Recipe for toritlla chips: > Buy a package of corn tortillas. > Cut 'em up. > Fry 'em. > Throw kosher salt at 'em. > Doesn’t seem to me to be a really difficult thing one has to think about. \*\* Hmm, gee, I guess I could have thought of that. But we’re one of those families that manages to make bread without a breadmaker machine. _gasp_ I was actually looking for a from-scratch recipe. Thanks for assuming I’ve got a below-average intellect. (yes, I could go look at [epicurious.com](http://epicurious.com), but I did ask Zenster if he had a recipe, because it was his damn salsa recipe that I made.) ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/59 "2001-10-30T17:51:32Z")
I wasn’t assuming you had a below-average intellect, **Venoma**. I was suprised that **Zenster** said that he had to “think about it” and get back to you. Sorry if it came out that I was criticizing you. This is one of those things where it might be a better idea to just buy some good-quality tortillas and fry them up. I can understand that you want to avoid store bought tortiall chips; I do, too. But the labor that’s required to actually _make_ the tortillas and then create chips out of them may be a little overkill. I suppose one could dry the corn also, and grind it yourself. My point is that you don’t have to do everything _entirely_ from scratch for it to be good. It weould be like making your own mustard. Sure, you might get an incremental increase in quality or falvor, but it just ain’t worth the effort. And lest you think I’m some person with dead tasebuds who eats ramen noodles all the time, I do make my own mayonnaise and things like that. I’m a pretty good cook. I could probably give **Zenster** a good run for his money, based on his recipe threads. I just think that balance is important. I make my own mayonnaise. My own cheese? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833/60 "2001-10-30T18:43:26Z")
Good point. Sorry for the kneejerk; I’m irritable today. Don’t know, to be honest, if the pre-made tortillas are easy to get around here (it’s hard enough to get fresh pita bread, and it’s much more popular) but I could look. I don’t think the tortillas would be too hard to make from scratch. The lone star here makes 'em from scratch, I believe (my brother has connections there… maybe I can get a supply of their mix! 😃 ) anyways. more action, less talk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-over-priced-food-pseudo-sandwich-artists-and-you/89833.md?page=4)