• @[email protected]
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    I don’t recall ordering a piece of plastic in my sandwich on my last trip there years ago. Got it anyway. The blank stare I got when I told the worker said “I have no idea why you care that your sandwich contains plastic” lol

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    That’s why I don’t go to subway.

    My brother in christ I’m paying you to make the sandwich.

    If I wanna make one myself I go to the grocery store. Wait they have premade ones too for cheaper. Oh and there’s a bakery at the grocery store that sells sandwiches too, and they even taste better than subway! That’s like a 3-0 for the grocery store

    Also who the fuck came up with a ‘0.3048m long’ as sandwich name??

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    When I visited the us that was a major culture shock. How much of an almost irrelevant choice there is on food and many other things. In Germany if I go to a bar and order a beer there is no question. You just fest the standard beer of the region and or bar. There are like 4-5 beers on tab at most.

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    I know this is a shitpost but I’ll never pass an opportunity to shit on subway.

    It’s the shit quality ingredients and how they keep changing everything.

    I use to eat subway all the time. Then they changed the only fuckin sauce I ever got, then removed it completely. I was fine with other sauces but then they started fucking with them too. This along with the ever increasing drop in overall quality of ingredients I can’t even eat half a 6" without feeling sick.

    Signed - Someone who used to fucking love subway ranting about how it’s been completely ruined.

    • @zipzoopaboop
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      It’s so expensive now too and the veggies taste like water. 6.99 for a 6inch cold cut in Canada

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      It’s crazy to me how wildly varying Subways can be, all the Subways in my area are fairly decent and I like them.

      I particularly like Subway because of the choice of veggies, I literally say “all veggies” at the veggies part and I know damn well I’m not even going to keep a fraction of the veggies at home. I can’t even keep lettuce good for very long before it goes nasty.

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        Its the franchising. Mcdonalds for all its faults keep a tight reign on things so it remains consistant. BK and subway you can see they do not or have very lax rules. There was one near my house awhile back where if the owners were working it you did not want to go in. Old wilted lettuce and such. Once in awhile they were gone and their kids were alone in the shop. I think the kids threw out anything they found gross. Working off the idea of what they would want for themselves. Then it was one of the best in the area. Unfortunately the kids being unsupervised was a rarity and so it could not actually get more traction from those good experiences as they were to few and far between. I actually have this problem now with a non chain gyro shop near me. The one we went to closed down but the new one I found gets to low of traffic and again. wilted lettuce and whatnot. Without more traffic you won’t get fresh stuff. If they were smart they would wait to cut the tomatoe and lettuce until someone ordered which would make a better experience and maybe more traffic and eventually they could do the ahead of time prep. As it stands now it will go out of business or be on kitchen nightmares.

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      I remember when the first one opened around me in high school and it was great and my friends and I hit it up pretty regularly. That was back when burger king was good to. Both went down over the years.

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    Subway is the only gluten free option fast food in UK. It’s the only place I can reliably eat at and I’ve yet to have a bad experience, staff goes above and beyond to not cross contaminate their food.

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      I’ve got some coeliac family and they seem to have reasonable luck with some chippies! That will certainly vary by location and maybe you don’t have a good one near you (or just don’t like it as much), but chippies that do a good job of catering for gluten-free diets certainly exist

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        We have few around. But if you’re out and about exploring… Find me gluten free app doesn’t always list reasonable places. Subway is more common than any other fast food so it is bound to have one within walking distance.

  • Skua
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    They don’t have an option for bread that doesn’t ruin everything

    • Jesus
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      You don’t like bread that immediately squishes into warm paper towel cover in oregano?

  • Diplomjodler
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    If all you have to choose from is shit, you’ll always end up with a shit sandwich.

  • @[email protected]
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    A footlong sub (not a meal) is around 13€ here.

    I can get a full ass restaurant meal for that

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      A footlong sub can be a meal, if you put enough stuff on it. And the veggies don’t make it cost more. Just load it up with everything and get your money’s worth.

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    And at the end of the day it’s just a sandwich, made with fresh ingredients, how can that be even bad?

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        I cannot speak for all Subways over the world but here where I’m located, and according to my own experience, they seem to be fresh.

        • @[email protected]
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          413 hours ago

          I’ve gotten horrendously sick from Subway before. In one particular case, a bout of food poisoning that put me in the hospital.

          • @[email protected]
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            That honestly sucks, I hope you haven’t had any more negative experiences like that since then (at Subway or elsewhere), nowadays I take home cooking over everything, it’s a lot of work tho.

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              Thanks, I don’t eat fast food anymore, and opt to cook at home as well. It is more work, but generally I think it’s much healthier and cheaper.

    • @[email protected]
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      I remember when they were putting so much sugar in the bread they legally couldn’t call it bread anymore.

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        That was in a specific country and that country was correct.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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        There was also that thing a few years ago where Ireland said subway’s bread couldn’t legally be called bread.

      • snooggums
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        I am pretty sure that the test was badly done and the whole 50% thing was the result of shitty sampling. Yes, they have soy protein additives but fake chicken is more expensive than real chicken and the tests were never confirmed by a second lab.

        A lot of fast food does end up having meat that is significantly lower than 100% meat just by doing seasoning and preservatives. Taco Bell for example has a crazy amount spices and filler ratio which is partially due to the fact that meat volume is reduced as the moisture is cooked out. They are still excessive though.

        Subway gets picked on the most both due to how it has the most locations (or did at one point) and it brags about the food quality. Nobody picks on KFC for how fatty their fried chicken is because we know it is fatty. Subway played themselves.

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          I pick on KFC plenty. If you order at the wrong time you will get hours old chicken at lots of locations, and it will be soggy and sad and basically just congeal into a lump of goopy breading.

          When the chicken is fresh it is top tier, but even at peak dinner time I end up getting soggy chicken half the time.

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          I thought the testing they did also showed other fast food places where getting results in the 80s instead of under 50% meat

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      As someone who likes a good subway every once in a while, there are definitely a few things you should refrain from ordering. Chicken comes to mind.

      Also, the recipe for bread they use in the US is different from many other countries because in those other countries the American version can’t legally be called bread. (I think it had to do with the sugar content)

      Subway also has a history of being pretty hostile towards anyone who speaks against their “healthy fast food” narrative. I mentioned chicken above, well they sued CBC for reporting on a study that found Subway chicken was only about 50% chicken DNA, with the rest being soy protein.

      They were also sued a couple years back by someone claiming their tuna wasn’t really tuna, but that case was dismissed by the plaintiff, citing pregnancy complications making it difficult to continue.

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        I think me not eating meat anymore has a lot to do with the way I perceive Subway, I remember trying their meatball sandwich a couple of times and not liking it, it tasted weird to me but I know people who liked it so I didn’t pay much attention to it. Nowadays I just order a sandwich stuffed with as many vegetables as possible, or their soy protein one.

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          I think their meatballs are alright. Definitely very sweet though, which I’m sure is by design.

          I like the sandwiches but I don’t eat there very often because, at least in my area, they’re very expensive, even by modern fast food standards.

    • @[email protected]
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      The ingredients are ok. It’s the bread. It smells weird, tastes awful and nowadays I can’t even walk past their stores without holding my nose.

      • @[email protected]
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        Really? I can understand that. IDK how different Subway is in America (or any other country for that matter) but in here I don’t see any issue with their bread, or at least I haven’t had any so far.

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          Fast food places are noticeably worse in the US. It was interesting trying out some European locations to experience the difference.

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          Yes. I’ve only experienced it in 2 countries, neither being the US, but both equally unpleasant.

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      Subway is just about the lowest quality garbage you can get. I think McDonald’s is maybe the only thing lower quality.

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      The meat is so bad. Have a look at a slice of the salami next time you’re there. Sometimes it seems more fat than anything else.

      Subway is the most available fast food in a lot of rural Colorado towns, so I’ve eaten my share traveling around the state

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        I’m not in the US so chances are by going to Subway we both would have different experiences, years ago I worked near a Subway so I stopped by all the time, their salami sandwich was maybe the one I ordered the most, it was OK.

  • @zipzoopaboop
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    Worse ingredients, worse sandwiches. Subway.

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    Idk, it’s usually much faster than busses.

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        i kinda feel bad for the artists. the quality of the materials they have to work with have declined precipitously since the 90s.

        they truly suffer for their art

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    I haven’t been to a Subway since the first time I went to a Subway.

    It’s like if every other sandwich shop was 200% worse, and the same price and everyone hated their lives.

    Wrong sandwich shop died, Quiznos. Should’ve been these fuckers.

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    I mean… you don’t have any choice about the quality of the meat. Didn’t Subway get in trouble because they couldn’t prove their tuna salad actually contained any, uh… tuna?

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      Not really. There was a lawsuit that claimed they contain no tuna. A lab found no tuna DNA, a different lab did. The lawsuit shifted to “does not contain only this type if tuna”.

      Also highly processed food (especially after it was cooked) does not contain any DNA that is identifiable.