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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Personally I'm the kind of guy that would probably just remove it and keep eating, however it should be noted that piece of plastic was likely wrapping one of the ingredients, that means one side would be clean and food safe but the other would be the side that laid on random stuff/surfaces, got pissed on by rats in the warehouse, etc etc. Again I wouldn't be too fussed myself because I think a bit of exposure to nasty stuff is part of life but I can definitely see how it could be a problem.

    I find Subway absolutely gross anyway and would never eat there, my partner likes it though..

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They don't have an option for bread that doesn't ruin everything

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m merely a patron of the sandwich artist.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I wish I didn't have to tell the expert artisanal sandwich craftsman how to make the sandwich step by step. "I'd like a number 5"

    -What bread? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    -Toasted? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    -What meat? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    -What veggies? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    -What cheese? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    -What sauce? "Whatever's in the picture for number 5"

    Why bother selling meals if each component requires a conversation. The fucking meal option should skip that bulshit unless initially ordered as such. 'I'd like a number 5 with everything different than advertised'

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can someone explain this, this post doesn't make sense to me

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At Subway the customer picks the stuff that goes into the sandwich.

    It's basically build your own food, except it's someone else's fingers in your food.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Buy what if you get to make your own sandwich? run the oven and all

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A footlong sub (not a meal) is around 13€ here.

    I can get a full ass restaurant meal for that

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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 get the standard beer of the region and or bar. There are like 4-5 beers on tab at most.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Worse ingredients, worse sandwiches. Subway.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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  • [+] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Remember the subway fake chicken controversy?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was a sandwich artist; the best sandwiches you truly have to make yourself.

    My favorite nowadays is a tuna on flat bread, double extra bacon, American cheese, lettuce, spinach, cucumber, tomato, red onion, light on the sweet onion sauce, and a little mayo.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I worked at a Pizza Hut in highscool and the first months of college. I'd never eat there as a civilian but some of the shit were (the workers) made was downright delectable.

    There's a kind of "unofficial" pizza hut menu that employees share around with all kinds of crazy stuff that you could never get just by customizing it online. The "twice-baked Hut Favorite meatball supreme" was my favorite and it took like 20 minutes to make all-in-all. I miss having that metabolism

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