It must have made sense to me at the time, but now that I’ve gotten some sleep, even I can’t figure out what I meant by that. Unless I was thinking about the way the fillings tend to stick out the side of the sandwich, and sometimes when I try to put the sandwich in my mouth it ends up dribbling out.
How in the world does the U cut make a sandwich harder to eat? It propertly contains the contents instead of allowing them to slide out of the back when you bite it. It’s because of the switch that I can no longer eat a Subway sandwich while driving.
I’d love to hear how it made it more difficult to eat. When they fold a flat-cut sub, the other half tears and your fillings have a free-for-all everytime you take a bite. And even if the other side manages to stay intact, they all go Houdini out the back. This was never a problem with the U-cut.
Do they not have create-a-salad places in Calgary? They are all over here in New York, the ingredients are fresher than subway, and they tend to be much larger.
I worked at the subway across from Madison Square Park on 23rd street many years ago. I got fired because I couldn’t make a sandwich in under a minute for the lunch rush. If I were in the suburbs, I would’ve been the fastest guy on the line.
The only problem with the U-cut is that the top bread tends to disappear as you eat it–sometimes you are left with nothing to hold onto on the top. Not quite sure why this happens, but it tends to happen on any sandwich where the top and the bottom bun are not very equal.
I like places like Jimmy John’s and Erbert and Gerbert’s where they scoop out the middle of the bread so that the fillings fit nicely. I especially like Erbert and Gerbert’s because they give you those yummy “bread guts” to eat with your sandwich–Jimmy John’s just throws them away!
