# The dual Subway pitchmen a-holes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970 "2003-05-28T06:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970/21 "2003-05-28T22:15:50Z")
And besides, I’ll never eat at Subway again: I worked in a liver transplant clinic and we had a patient, a young kid, who needed a liver transplant after eating at Subway. He got $11 million from them as a settlement, but he’s had at least two liver transplants since he ate that dirty sandwich. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970/22 "2003-05-28T22:28:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*And besides, I’ll never eat at Subway again: I worked in a liver transplant clinic and we had a patient, a young kid, who needed a liver transplant after eating at Subway. He got $11 million from them as a settlement, but he’s had at least two liver transplants since he ate that dirty sandwich. > > No thanks. \*\* Yes, well, I hate to break this to you, but, while the _law_ may hold the entire Subway corporation responsible for that, in point of fact it is only that one store, or more accurately, the manager of that store who was at fault. Blaming the entire group for the actions of a few members of that group is something silly that humans seem to like doing. It’s no better when the group is a corporation. I’m not flaming you, specifically, but rather the tendency of people to overgeneralize. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970/23 "2003-05-28T22:50:55Z")
I lived 20 yards from a Subway for four years. The smell of that bread baking is enough to make me want to barf now. It’ll be a \long\ time before I can eat Subway again, so the annoying pitchmen are just icing on the no-Subway cake. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970/24 "2003-05-28T22:52:13Z")
Well, blame Livejournal for the pointy brackets. Serves me right for trying to post to both at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970/25 "2003-05-28T22:58:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*They don’t make that much. My cousin is an actress (you’d all recognize her) who does TV, movies, and commercials. “A day’s work” does not necessarily equal “more than the rest of us make in a year,” though the longer a commercial plays the more the actors get in residuals. She did pretty well off an MCI commercial, and as the Tetley Tea Lady, but still makes more on DOOL. \*\* Hey, I met her at the Daytime Emmys last year! (I was with friends and old co-workers from two other soaps). She’s a sweetheart! And soaps will definitely pay more than commercials - if one’s a recurring or contract character. Day players pretty much make scale or a little more - not much at all. Ava [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dual-subway-pitchmen-a-holes/177970.md?page=1)