I can’t even remember the last time I was at a subway. I do know they were doing the canoe cut. There is a Quizno’s near work that I frequent and a mom & pop type of deli. I can walk to either of these or another called Greenleaf’s Café, get my food, and be back at my desk in about 15 minutes. The nearest Subway is at the food court which is about a 10-minute walk for me. Between noon & 1, Subway always has the longest line in the entire food court. I believe I was only there once when I was able to get there early. Otherwise, I’d probably be waiting about 10 minutes just for my food. And for some strange reason, that food court has their registers in a central location rather than at the counters. Which can result in another long wait, especially in tourist season. My other problem with Subway is the Chinese-food-syndrome. In other words, I’m hungry again about an hour later!
Yello Sub? Is that like yellow snow?
My mom told me never to eat that stuff.
I work in a GI/hepatology clinic. We have a patient who just won an eight-figure settlement from Subway because the patient had to have a liver transplant after eating a Subway sandwich. The patient’s transplant need was so urgent that they had to transplant against type just to keep the patient alive, so now the patient is waiting for another liver.
The patient is 10.
All right, a ten-year-old multimillionaire, but the kid may not have much time to spend it.
But that in your bun and eat it.
PUT that in your bun.
I know this is the Pit, but… details? Link? Cite? Chances of this happening to anyone else?
Sorry to hear about the kid.
No link, and I am the cite: personal experience. I see the kid once or twice a week, and deal with the parents. This kid has been a patient of this clinic longer than the year and a half I’ve worked here; will probably keep coming here until their 18th birthday, and then get aged out to an adult hospital.
Any third-party cite or link would break the hospital’s confidentiality rules, which could technically get me fired.
So we can’t know if it was the turkey or the southwest steak sub that got him? [sub]ow, damn, ok, sorry[/sub]
No, more what I was wondering was what had caused liver damage that he’d eaten, whether it was due to a pre-existing medical condition (allergy?) and what You Can Do To Prevent It™
But if you can’t say, ok.
I’d sell my liver for a Southwest Steak Sub right about now…
The kid contracted hepatitis C from a Subway sandwich; I don’t know what kind.
Likelihood? How likely was it to happen to this kid? The store had a worker who had hepC, and who was not adequately supervised. Didn’t wash hands or wear gloves.
Not very likely, but from knowing this kid I can hardly go into a Subway without seeing little hepC bugs crawling all over the food.
When pharmaceutical reps buy us lunch, which happens pretty frequently, I have to tell them NO SUBWAY; all the doctors I work for have sworn off Subway for life since dealing with this kid’s case.
That’s pretty ignorant to swear off all Subways for life because one particular Subway had an employee who didn’t follow the proper precautions (and most likely a supervisor who didn’t pay enough attention). You’re just as likely to get hepatitis at Burger King next week, or Jack in the Box the week after.
Then again, I think doctors in this country get way too much credit as it is.
I feel the same way about KFC, but not for as extreme a reason… my cousin’s friend bit into a chicken sandwich at one of the local branches, and got a mouthful of - you guessed it - maggots. His dinner companion vomited. The company settled for $10,000 CDN so he would keep his mouth shut (they didn’t pay ME off, now did they? 
) I think he should have held out.
I have a hard time eating chicken sandwiches or bits of any kind now.
Yuck.
And then there was the DQ worker who wore no gloves and had eczema or SOMETHING all over her hands when she made my salad. red icky scabs. shuddershuddershudder I didn’t notice until I went back for napkins.
This is a whole new thread.
What a breathtakingly ignorant response. Who the hell pulled your string?
Jesus, lissener, who pissed in your cheerios?
How is that ignorant?
Hey, lissener? Why don’t you start making some sense. Until then, shut the fuck up.
Not only should you swear off subway, but any fast food at all.
Some of those people don’t wash their hands after peeing, picking their noses, masturbating, or handling cash!
And just how do you know that the people picking up your food have washed their hands? The bag, and wrappers are contact points? They could have just scratched their ass, or picked a zit before grabbing your little bag of food!
Or, better yet, even they washed their hands, but the person who came in the door before them didn’t and now it is all over the door handle and now on their hands!
Face it, this could happen anywhere for any number of reasons.
That Subway was at fault, and didn’t come close to paying for a ten year olds life. But, go ahead and live in a box if you all want to.
How bout this one…
My husband is a roofer, and one day they were roofing Long John Silvers.
Now, they have a filtration system for their grease that goes through a trap on the roof.
Know what the guys found up there?
Fried Racoon! Or what was left of the little guy anyway.
That meant that some of the grease was being filtered out through that little guy.
Pretty yummy?
I’m confused here, I know several Hep C sufferers including my brother. All acquired Hep C from intavenous drug use. I have never heard of anyone becoming infected from food. In fact this site says food preparation by sufferers is fine and I certainly eat my brothers food - he’s a damn good cook.
Everyone I know who suffers from Hep C had it so long before they were symptomatic that they had no idea where they got it. Two had only used IV drugs several years before they found out they had it. So how did this kid, or his family, unerringly identify the Subway staff member with the dirty hands?
Eww. I just ate, and youguys are making my stomach churn with your fast food stories. I’ve worked in food service for years, and I’ve never seen anything as disgusting as this.
Well, okay, there was the mushrooms thing, but I didn’t actually see that myself, so I don’t know how credible it is…
I’ll tell you this much though, never eat at Sbarros! At least not the pasta side of things…pizzas are usually safe…
Sorry, it was hep A.
I don’t deal with the patients clinically, I do admin stuff, dealing only with parents and paperwork.
And Mr. Cynical, how please was I not making sense? I called Demo’s response ignorant because of these two phrases:
As I already explained, it’s not a matter of likelihood as much as it is that I don’t want to give my money to a company who was so cavalier about its responsibility to protect its customers from horrible diseases. And that my association of Subway with hepatitis A will take a long time to fade. Even if it does fade, after seeing what it’s done to this family ($XX,000,000 aside) I doubt I’ll ever want to give Subway any of my money.
And the crack about doctors was a cheap shot with nothing to explain or support it: insubstantial and unsubstantiated.
. . . in addition to which, it wasn’t the first time this had happened. From the main local paper, when it first hit the news:
Which, if you ask me, makes it all the more likely to happen again.