I exaggerate for humorous effect.
I have to break in my local Subway’s to give me enough green peppers. They eventually do, even on the first shot, but the people behind the counter have to learn I’m serious. I really do want more green peppers than they have ever put on any other sandwich. And then another hearty handful. When I have to pick green pepper off my wax paper bit with a shovel because it won’t all fit into a sandwich no matter how talented the preparer is, then, and only then, will I be happy.
The rest of the sandwich varies according to mood and I have no real preferance. You could switch my sauce for mayo, put completely wrong amounts on, swap meats, I won’t care overly much. But please, give me green peppers.
Sandwich artist? Uh, I’m glad you take pride in your work and all, but seriously, you make sandwiches. Do you get an extra piece of flair for your suspenders?
Since fast food workers have been reclassified as manufacturing jobs, wouldn’t that necessarily elminate the artist part? Of course, not in Canada.
IIRC, Subway ads began touting their employees as Sandwich Artists quite some time ago. And while she “makes sandwiches” it’s clear from this thread that there is some level of art to it, as people have been vigorously lamenting the way some people do it.
I disliked the old canoe cut, the little strip of bread was always trying to fall off and you had to hold it oddly in order to eat it.
The thing that bugs me is the order they put on the condiments, lettuce first then the other stuff, so when things fall out it’s always the stuff added after the lettuce. I could stand to lose some lettuce but when I get a measly 10 slices of black olives I want them all to stay on the sandwich. The lettuce should be the last thing added to help keep the other things inside.
I’ve eaten at Quiznos once. I liked the idea of a toasted sandwich, however what I got was way too toasted it was like eating a sandwich made with crackers. It hurt my mouth. There are none close by so I haven’t bothered to try again to see if that was a fluke or if they are always toasted into crackerdom.
I’ve got a problem with Subway. Subway’s big thing is how fresh their food is, and generally speaking, it is.
When I heard Subway would start doing breakfast sandwichs, I drooled a bit. I luuurrve me some egg and sausage sammiches. Would you like to know how Subway defines “fresh” when it comes to breakfast?
Premade frozen disk of scrambled eggs. Premade frozen disk of sausage. Nuke for 30 second, slap on cold bun with cheese. Possibly the nastiest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth.
'Splain me that.
It’s pretty variable location to location. I’ve been to places where it didn’t seem very toasted at all. The one next to my house gets it about right, so I go there if I’m in the mood.
Easy enough to explain. You haven’t put enough nasty things in your mouth, so a pathetic attempt at a sandwich becomes the winner by default.
In order for Subway’s breakfast sammich to no longer be the nastiest thing you’ve ever put in your mouth, well, uh, I’ll tell you when you’re older.
There is no heat lamp. We use flourescent lighting above our cold table, which chills the condiments from below. All ingredients are refrigerated 24/7. As I already explained to Martin Hyde, we get so many customers every day that nothing sits refrigerated in the cold table for more than 24 hours, even in the most extreme cases. We put the stuff on the sandwiches as fast as we put it out in the table.
I am so tired of people casting aspersions on the freshness of our food. I know how often our vegetables were delivered, I know how many times a day we prepped the stuff, and I know exactly how long it sat out in my cold table before getting used up (or thrown out). I don’t even work at Subway anymore, so I don’t count on their success to get a paycheck. I’m just doing my part to fight ignorance.
As for the “misleading advertising”, even our fattiest sub, the BMT, only has 30 grams of fat, including cheese. That is still a far cry from McDonald’s, especially when you consider that one sandwich is a full meal, but it’s rare that people eat a Big Mac without fries that were cooked in beef tallow.
I don’t know the science behind how they do it, but Subway has things set up so that if you cut the bread properly, you “maximise” the space inside of it. To know how to do it properly, takes training. I have seen co-workers make a steak sub with crap hanging all out of it, sauce running down the front, and green pepper flying in all direction when they wrap it. I can make a steak sub that is easy to hold and eat, because I have practice and skill. Tell me that isn’t something worth appreciating, especially when you’re ravenously hungry and wearing a business suit.
As for the breakfast sandwiches, there really is no excuse. I was frequently embarassed to be making them, but I don’t have much control over SOP.
Exactly my point. You can do that at any fast-food place. So Subway’s constant claims that they are healthier are bullshit.
In my experience, Subway’s stuff ain’t that fresh, unless you like brown lettuce and war-surplus cold-cuts. Quizno’s kicks ass over Subway. And I haven’t tried McDonald’s salads, to tell you the truth, but Jack In the Box has some pretty awesome salads. YMMV.
But that’s not the comparison being made in the commercials. The current comparison, I believe, is between a six inch chicken breast sub and a Big Mac. That’s ridiculous. McDonald’s sells a grilled chicken breast sandwich, so why compare your chicken with their beef? You might as well compare cheesecake to a salad.
And it’s rare for people to eat a Subway sandwich without chips and a coke. In fact, I have never eaten at Subway when the cashier didn’t try to upsell me to a combo. A 6" sub isn’t any more of a meal by itself than a Quarter Pounder is. And McDonald’s hasn’t cooked their fries in beef tallow for like 20 years now. (They did get busted for putting a little beef flavoring in them, but they don’t cook them in beef tallow.)
Not to defend McDonald’s; it certainly isn’t the best stuff you can eat. But if Subway really is that much better, why do they have to deceive people to get them to believe it?
Yeah, everyone knows they use double-boilers and microwaves.
I work at Subway. Since starting working there, I’ve put on so much weight from eating their shit when on breaks.
It doesn’t even taste nice, for Christ’s sake.
Strange, we have ketchup in UK Subways.
Here are some more interesting comparisons than the one Subway makes:
McDonald’s Chicken McGrill: 16g of fat
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese: 25g of fat
Subway’s 6" Meatball: 24g of fat
Subway 6" Tuna: 31g of fat
Subway 6" Chicken Bacon Ranch: 34 g of fat. :eek:
You can choose a healthier sandwich, at subway, though - the Chicken McGrill is about as low in fat grams as McDonald’s go for a sandwich (with the exception of the eensy weensy Chicken Fajita, weighing in at 8g of fat)- a smaller sandwich than you get at Subway.
You can get a footlong ham, honey mustard ham, roasted chicken breast, roast beef, turkey breast, turkey breast and ham for about 10g of fat each. Stay away from oils, mayo, and cheese - but you should do that anyway. If you get a Meatball sub (like my heart attack special) you brought that on yourself!
That’s for footlongs - I often get the 6", so cut those fat grams in half. No one said a meatball sub was good for you! Even Mr. Fogle says he ate turkey subs with no condiments - he didn’t eat a meatball sub each day! 
Erg, i just saw the advert comparison post you were speaking of, blowero, my bad.
You can get much healthier subs at Subway if you choose wisely, though - and I suppose all ads are pretty shiesty, even with a good product. Look at the colas, still waging war on each other - when they both came out with a lower carb cola, they were still taking jabs at each other: “Our cola is much lower in carbs/sugar/bad whatnots than the regular opposing cola!” When the opposing cola has precisely the same product. :smack:
I have lost weight eating at Subway - no condiments, etc. It’s that people go in uninformed often, and load up with the condiments. Or, just plain eat too much. My friend, who weighs 400 lbs, whines about how I can lose weight eating at Subway, while she eats her (first of three) footlong Italian BMT, double meat, double cheese, extra mayo (I kid you not. Sadly, I kid you not). No one can say she doesn’t work hard on her figure, let me tell you. You have to eat a lot to keep the figure she’s got. 
I love the taste of Quizno’s subs, but the last 2 times I’ve been there, I’ve ended up with some funky GI trouble afterwords. So I’ve sworn it off for good. However, Subway is, almost as a rule, nasty. So if I want a cold sandwich, I make it myself, without all of the vegetables you people seem to think belong in a sandwich.
I’ve also been pretty pissed off by the Subway ad campaigns too…the comparisons are just not equal in any way. Hmmm…a 20 piece chicken McNugget or a 6" cold turkey sandwich? Whatever shall I do? :rolleyes:
I prefer old school. My local subway seemingly has no probs with that though now I will be watching for murderous glints of rage in their eyes just to be on the safe side.
I think we need to track down Jared and get his opinion.
I’m sure McDonald’s would be glad to leave off the mayo, which probably accounts for most of the 16g of fat. They can substitute mustard if you want. The point is, you have the same choices at other fast-food places; Subway just pretends like you don’t.
Nobody said they did. And nobody’s trying to say a Big Mac or Quarter Pounder is good for you. The point is, it’s misleading to compare one company’s “good for you” sandwich with the other companies “not good for you” sandwich. Get it?