To-day I Went To Subway

My lord,

On this dark and sunless day, I have endeavoured to win the infidel’s trust. I have ventured deep into his dark habitat, and I have tasted of the wretched refuse he draws his sustenance from. Take heed, kind sir! Lest you wish your childlike innocence wrested from you, read no further! This way lies an examination into the darkest, deepest recesses of human debauchery and depravity. Let the meek go no further.

The dread was such that even now, sitting safely in the comfort of my island sanctuary, the ordeal long past, I still shudder at the thought of it. Six horrific inches of white bread, into which was stuffed the charbroiled breast of a chicken, coated in an assortment of hideously coloured viscous substances which emanated the distinct, sickly sweet odour of moral decay. Slivered corpses of cabbage and onion, lying there flat and soaking in the stinking, oozing mess of Mammon’s meat and flavor-fluids. Just the smell of it would have been enough to overpower me under normal circumstances, but my all-important role in this, the Holiest of Wars, steeled my resolve beyond that of my mortal ken, and with Herculean courage I sank my teeth into the thick, yielding bread.

Wearing a spurious mask of contentment upon my visage so as to not alert the mindless drones furiously masticating in my presence, I inwardly winced as my taste buds came into contact with this diabolic sandwich, this abomination from Below. Tentatively tearing strips from the thing, as an animal of the Wyld might gorge upon the innards of its prey, I felt the heavy lust of sin and corruption take hold of me. My resolve was slipping; my mask was, little by little, becoming real. And that, dear reader, was when it happened.

The bread, this Mephistophilean aberration, took on a life of its own, deciding, for whatever reason its loathsome intelligence would allow it, to attach itself to the upper portion of my mouth. There it sat, suctioned to my palate, gloating and quivering, rapidly devolving back into the mutant rubber paste it had doubtless congealed from originally. In a desperate bid to save my sanity I was forced to peel it with my finger from the roof of my mouth, from whence it flopped lifelessly onto my tongue, skidded an inch down, then made a dive for freedom, ending its existence on the tabletop with a thick, resounding plop that brought my gallant struggle to the attention of the drones populating the nearby tables. Had I not made that heroic dash for the door in the next instant, I have absolutely no doubt that I would not be sitting here by the fireplace at this moment, putting ink to paper, relating this story to you. I have no desire to ever venture into the belly of the Beast again. My failure in this is implicit, and for that I beg your forgiveness. I can only implore you: let it never be said that Don Fnoonfo did not attempt to do his part. It is my sincere hope, at least, that I have failed with honour.

Humbly, I remain

Don Fnoonfo de Alcabab

Aaah yes, Subway and H.P. Lovecraft. A marriage made in Heaven… or… uh…
I have to go. ==zoom!

I agree. Subway oogy. Last time I went there, I got food poisoning from a meatball sub.

So, was it good or what?

Mmmmmmm…Subway.

Damnit. Now I’m hungry…

Jared! Jared! Jared!

God, am I getting sick of that guy.

Mmmm… I love Subway chicken AND meatball subs. Separately. But I’ll admit they aren’t exactly haute cuisine, and I love them mostly with the part of my mind that says “Well, this beats cookin’.”

Their Southwest Turkey Bacon thingie is delicious…especially if you can get the jalapeno cheese bread. DEEEEEE-lish.

Subway doesn’t use cabbage. You musta gone somewhere else.

Mmmmmmm…BBQ chicken sub on Jalepeno Cheddar. :drool:

Urp. Subway food is like Taco Bell food. Which is to say, it ain’t.

I went there yester-day.

So immense was the warping of my mental faculties following the failed consumption of the horrid chicken breast sub that I espied some ethereal connexion between cabbage and lettuce, one that does not exist in any objective reality. My apologies. The instrument of my demise contained lettuce. Lettuce, not cabbage.

I shall retire now, to further mourn the loss of my thought processes.

Signed,
D. F de A

I, too, went to Subway today. Maybe you have to be a cute chick like me. See, when I roll up to the drive thru window, the manager there knows what I always order (Round Tuna with Cheese, Lettuce and Tomato, bag o Fritos and a diet coke) and has it ready by the time the customer in front of me is finished paying. He’s good. And gives me freebies if the bread is stale or if I have some other complaint. Look, I realize it’s not food, or even good food. I go there because I’m in the mood for garbage for lunch, or because I’m in a horrible hurry.

That said, I give this rant 50 bonus points for using, “Mephistophilean” in a sentence. Come up with something that rhymes with “Mephistophilean” and I’ll give you 100 bonus points. Or use it in a haiku for 150.

I really like the veggie and cheese sub.

You got veggies. You got cheese. You got some yummy sub sauce.

Really, how can you go wrong? (I think I would avoid the meet though - it seems to just sit around for quite a while.

Nobody should eat at subway.

I worked there when I was younger, and trust me, none of that food is safe. I’m surprised more people don’t get food poisoning and die.

You know that ‘seafood’ (read: a tub of may and fake crab) stuff they have? Yeah, that sits out for about a week or two before it gets to you because nobody orders it.

The food temp readings they take are usually falsified (this was before the Jack in the box thing, I imagine they’re more careful now).

You don’t even WANT to know the sanitary conditions back there. I mean, think about it, you’re being served by a bunch of bored 16 year olds who hate their job.

And the whole ‘We bake our own fresh bread’ thing is a tad misleading, at best. The bread comes in frozen-solid lumps that are thrown in a hot oven for a few hours. That’s not so bad. I guess I wouldn’t trust your average sandwich artist to make bread dough either. But said bread then sits in that little rack-thingie for about 3 days before anyone actually eats it.

And beleive me, the sight of industrial-sized boxes of cold cuts is enough to make anyone fear a subway sandwich. Yech…

Dogzilla wrote:

He’s an Achaean.
He’s Mephistophelean.
He’s Herculean.

(Complete with corrected spelling! :))

Mephistophilean rhymes with:

He kissed a million?

(I’m really not sure how to pronounce it…) Do I get the points?
And Subway is ok—never got sick yet! My only complaint with them is they never have the “special” breads… only white and wheat. Whay advertise them then?

Jared may be slightly annoying, but Clay Henry has got to go!

[channeling Sean Connery]
My name is Henry. Clay Henry.
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But now he’s down to a smaller size. Give it up for CLAY HENRY.

Gotta agree with TeleTronOne here. My SO told me about the crab stuff, and I haven’t eaten there since. And I always ordered ham and cheese subs (Country White bread, with pickles). No crab–but knowing about the crab’d make me sick anyway.

I had a similar experience with Taco Bell. A couple of friends worked there during high school. Never eating there. Ever.