[Closed] Todays big news Subways bread isn't bread!

Potatoes, not vegetables.

Yes, yes they are.

Forks and Spoons, not cutlery.

Only in America.

We're not in America.

They're cutlery.

Spicy Italian foot long on Italian herbs and cheese with everything but tomatoes and cucumber, chilli sauce.

Mmmmmmm

Moderation innit

Why do people keep posting up the favourite Subway sandwich? They all taste exactly the same anyway.

Sure they do

I use subway when I'm in Saudi as it's consistent, available and quick, however I did find a shawarma place near to the subway in the City I was visiting last time and now go there out of preference (Its a lot slower though).

Whales – fruit

The whale is an insect and it lives on bananas.

A guy i used to work with had a 12" meatball monstrosity every single day, used to come back into the office & stank the place out - the sauce was usually dripping out the bottom of the bag - rest of his diet was similarly unhealthy & he proudly proclaimed to enjoy 4 large shites per day. I believed him.

Didn't put me off though - 12" Italian BMT on the oatmeal bread with everything except cucumber and extra spicy sauce here please, not had one for ages - next week i'm right in about one when i'm back in work.

Oh man, footlong meatball monstrousity, cheese and toasted, all the salad and pickles except tomato and cucumber. Southwest and chill sauce.

I love 'em, but my farts could strip wallpaper afterwards, they're practically grounds for divorce.

Not somethng I'd recomend anyone eats regularly, but every now and again... FILTH!

Oh yeh, you don't have a Subway every day but there are(were) days in the office when it hit 12 and you couldn't rid the thought of a foot of bread-like stuff with fresh fillings straight out of a plastic container for lunch.

Bananas, not Fruit.

It has seeds, therefore it's fruit. Which means ketchup is fruit sauce.

Cucumber = fruit

You know most of them offer wraps as an option if you object to their 'bread'?

I've not tried it since they changed it to vegan but I used to enjoy their veggie pattie. One of the few fast food places that treated their veggie offering just like any other protein, and (at least front-of-house where you can see them) tried to avoid cross-contamination.

I’ve been thinking about other things that aren’t the things we think they are:

Tomatoes are fruit.

Forks and Spoons, not cutlery.

Wut choo talkin bout, Willis?

I had one of their vegan meatball subs a while back and was pleasantly surprised. Usually* go for a steak and cheese with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, red onions, olives and jalapenos with what ever the south west sauce is called nowadays

*usually = maybe once or twice a year..

yeah the vegan non-meat meatball sub is really good, actually much prefer it to the "meat" version

I once bought some brioche burger buns from Waitrose which were special Heston ones as there was nothing else left. The bun contained more saturated fat than the beefburger. Wtf?

@Molgrips:
"Oh great another snobby food thread. How uplifting!"

It's not food. It's just stuff that you can stick in your mouth.

It's also not snobbery to point that out.

In the 1980's McDonalds admitted in the UK courts that their burgers were up to 5% fecal matter. It didn't stop anyone eating them. But then you get Morgan Spurlock and supersize me etc etc - and you realise it's not food either. It's stuff you can eat - but food, by definition, sustains you.

I could make and eat scouse for the rest of my life - lots of onions, vegetables, small amounts of meat, all in a nice stock. It would sustain me. Because that's food.

Subway is stuff you can put in your mouth designed by "food" scientists. It can't sustain you - in fact, in not-so-long-term it will do you damage.

Because it's not food.

Pointing that out is not snobbery. Snobbery is pointing out that subway doesn't stock your caviar and champagne of the required expense. This is just maintaining basic food standards and not falling for profiteers who'll sell idiots any old cr@p that they can legally cram in their mouth, for profit.

Forks and Spoons, not cutlery.

Wut choo talkin bout, Willis?

Supposedly cutlery only refers to knifes and the rest is 'flatware', but here we've thrown the lot in together as cutlery, leaving on the Americans to use 'flatware' and 'Silverware' - making it an Americanism, which of course is repugnant.

Can you get cheap cider in a Subway? News to me

I don't mind the odd subway, it is quite expensive for what it is though.

It also makes me incredibly thirsty after eating it, I suspect it has more salt that the sea but I don't care as it fixes a hangover.

Supposedly cutlery only refers to knifes and the rest is ‘flatware’

That makes total sense, the only component that's flat is the only one not called flatware.

In the 1980’s McDonalds admitted in the UK courts that their burgers were up to 5% fecal matter.

Assuming that to be true for the sake of argument because I can't be arsed to fact check it, look at the wording there. "Up to."

So as however much fecal matter might make it into a burger (and you do know where meat comes from, right?) they are promising that it will never be more than 5%. It would be equally valid to claim their burgers were up to 100% fecal matter or 5% Richard Whiteley without changing its composition one jot.

It’s not food. It’s just stuff that you can stick in your mouth.

It’s also not snobbery to point that out.

In the 1980’s McDonalds admitted in the UK courts that their burgers were up to 5% fecal matter. It didn’t stop anyone eating them. But then you get Morgan Spurlock and supersize me etc etc – and you realise it’s not food either. It’s stuff you can eat – but food, by definition, sustains you.

I could make and eat scouse for the rest of my life – lots of onions, vegetables, small amounts of meat, all in a nice stock. It would sustain me. Because that’s food.

Subway is stuff you can put in your mouth designed by “food” scientists. It can’t sustain you – in fact, in not-so-long-term it will do you damage.

Because it’s not food.

Pointing that out is not snobbery. Snobbery is pointing out that subway doesn’t stock your caviar and champagne of the required expense. This is just maintaining basic food standards and not falling for profiteers who’ll sell idiots any old cr@p that they can legally cram in their mouth, for profit.

I'm going to stick my neck out here, but that's all complete bollocks isn't it?

I'm fairly sure that if a quarter pounder contained 6g of shit, you'd notice, but if I'm wrong, provide a source. You're far more likely to find faecal matter on vegetables, or anything else grown out in the open, in actual shit.

As for the rest... bullshit. If food was only food is you were able to live eating nothing else, very few things would be considered food, and your example doesn't conform exclusively to the definition of "food".

Can you get cheap cider in a Subway? News to me

I fear our esteemed poster was referring to a subway rather than Subway. It was a pune.

In the 1980’s McDonalds admitted in the UK courts that their burgers were up to 5% fecal matter.

1. Do you have a source for this? It sounds like BS.

2. As the old saying goes, the scandal isn't that they do it, it's that it's legal. (Which means that everyone else's burgers are probably pretty much the same because they'll all be aiming to duck just under whatever the legal limit is.)

I’m fairly sure that if a quarter pounder contained 6g of shit, you’d notice, but if I’m wrong, provide a source. You’re far more likely to find faecal matter on vegetables

Surely the fecal matter of a cow IS vegetables?
Maybe it makes it more healthy?
(i'm joking)

Do you have a source for this? It sounds like BS.

I think that's the point - it is BS. Up to 5% of BS.

Surely the fecal matter of a cow IS vegetables?
Maybe it makes it more healthy?
(i’m joking)

True.

I once knew a man who got paid to take shit, and got paid again from people who bought it.

His farm stank, but don't they all, but he was making a fortune at the time, probably still is, funny old world.

Oh great another snobby food thread. How uplifting!

Oh great, another thread where well justified concerns over food quality are vacuously dismissed as snobby. How uplifting!

Anyway, Subway food is dog shit 🐕 💩

Better not start on the subway chicken only being 50% actual chicken...

The argument is that it's bread that doesn't qualify as a staple, rather than not being bread at all, isn't it?

I love a Subway when I'm on holiday in the States - if only because being veggie it's an easy option when on the road. That and a bucket of Coke (brown liquid not the white powder kind) and I know I've arrived in America 🙂

Never have one in the UK.

The argument is that it’s bread that doesn’t qualify as a staple, rather than not being bread at all, isn’t it?

Pretty much, but if that was the story, there wouldn't be two pages of nitpicking, posturing and urban myths to enjoy!

Of all the Fast/Junk food outlets, I think of Subway as being one of the better ones... It's essentially a build your own sandwich shop, so is as healthy/unhealthy as you make it.

Lightly toasted, 6", Ham and cheese sandwich with salad (no sauce) for me, in a choice of (not?) breads... I'm sure it's far from the finest cuts of meat or cheese, but it does the job.

Add me to the "everything in moderation" pile.

Yeah, it’s not bread in the same way as brioche is not bread. And they have to have a clear (arbitrary?) distinction for tax reasons. Mmm… cake tax.

Yeah there is a fair bit of food snobbery on STW. Middle-age and middle-class brings with it the notion of one having "standards" when a younger version of yourself would probably just scoff at such complaints, eat the damn meatball marinara and make a mental note not to do it too often...

Of all the fast food sold in the UK today Subway is probably a long way from the worst. Anyone ever had a KFC or Domino's?

I’m going to stick my neck out here, but that’s all complete bollocks isn’t it?

It's psuedoscience, really.

Sure, a diet of lobscouse for the rest of your life might 'sustain' you but you probably wouldn't thrive on it. A healthy diet is a varied one, humans are highly adaptable omnivores.

We're not designed to live off a single food source. Going 'if you ate nothing but McD's you'd die' is a little disingenuous - you could say the same of carrots or cream cakes, would you argue that carrots aren't food?

God, I'm hungry now.

you could say the same of carrots or cream cakes, would you argue that carrots aren’t food?

If I do, can I eat just the cream cakes and leave the carrots to you?

the notion of one having “standards” when a younger version of yourself would probably just scoff at

Beggars and choosers, innit. Subway would have been a positive luxury as a student, our primary go-to was Pasta A La Cupboard.

Anything made using the Chorleywood process isn’t real bread.
shuffles off to feed the sourdough starter...

Anyone ever had a KFC or Domino’s?

I have. But not very many. Of them all I have probably had Dominos' most often of the three (ie, including Subway too) but in my 53 years I reckon I still have only ever eaten a Domino pizza about 20 times in total. It's nothing to do with snobbery though (I love a good kebab, will eat Indian food every day of the week and late night pizzas are great after a few beers). I simply don't particularly enjoy any of them – they aren't inedible, they just don't fill me with joy.

when a younger version of yourself would probably just scoff at such complaints, eat the damn meatball marinara and make a mental note not to do it too often…

I’d eat any old shite in my late teens and early twenties. Once dropped a kebab on a gravel driveway when I was hammered and simply scooped it up and ate it. Mmmm rocks! Used to get a Domino’s meal deal for four on a Thursday evening before starting a 12 hour night shift in a textile mill. Oh and cake, all the cake.

Mmmmmm.... haven’t had 1 for ages and now developing a craving for a
6 inch BMT , lettuce, peppers, olives, tomato, jalapeños, red onion, and South West dressing........

The steak and cheese wrap with everything except onion, peppers and sweetcorn but with extra olives, black pepper and chipotle sauce.

It is so packed it doesn't really wrap...haven't had one for about 4 months and won't for a while yet...but no issues eating it. It is cheap and not healthy but I know that before I get it, so have no issues with my choice.

I’m a huge fan of crap ‘food’ but I really can’t understand how anyone would want to eat anything that smells that bad. It’s absolutely vile!

Ever had a Greggs sausage roll?

Oh, wait...

Aye thats agood point.

The sausage rolls from the blue and orange place are truly rotten, how do they make meat taste of noting with a hint of vinegar.

Can I have a footlong Italian BMT on honeyoat please? No tomatoes or sweetcorn please and a little bit of Southwest sauce. Then the hurried journey to home/hotel before it gets cold. Mmmmmmmmm

I haven’t had a Subway this year. I suspect that’s about to change...

Footlong BMT on honey oat with “cheese”, lettuce, peppers and chillis and Chipotle sauce please.

spicy Italian foot

I only east cheesy French feet.

long on herbs

without herbs

Footlong tuna on whatever. Honey/oat if available. Green peppers two deep. Lettuce. Jalapenos. Olives. Lots of fresh onion. Honey mustard sauce. Black pepper.

Twice a year. Enjoy it. It’s hardly healthy. But neither is most fast food.

Be assertive if they skimp on the salads ie if they’re faffingly sprinkling two or three pieces of pepper about your sandwich. Flicking a ring or two of onion in the direction of your breadcake.

‘What’s that?? I may look like a salad-dodger (because I am that) but just today, of ALL days, please stop helping me dodge salad!

‘Pack it full of the salad please’
‘Moar pepperrz’
‘a little more onion?’

They’ll get the message.

Repeat until sandwich is bursting with juicy nom. Thank them and compliment them on a beautiful sarnie.

Be aware that it will make your face smell and so require double scrubbing after. If bearded be aware that this sandwich will fully impregnate beard with the Mystery Scent Of Subway.

It doesnt taste like bread
It doesnt smell like bread
Its 10% sugar and I believe a similar amount of semolina

conclusion

Its not bread.

astonishes me how many people eat this shite.

astonishes me how many people eat this shite.

Really? Have you met humanity?

I don't eat Subway any more, but what a load of snobs. By all means call it out for being low quality (it is), by all means don't eat there, but loudly proclaiming it's not food and you can't believe how anyone could possibly eat there - you're just trying to assert your superiority by boasting about high standards. And you'll protest about this because being a snob is also bad for your ego.

Get over yourselves.