Subway sandwiches - Classic or Dud?

when i was in university i dated this gal who worked at subway part-time and she was always very depressed about coming home smelling like subway, but I LOVED IT! mmm.. bread and onions...

If you mean the sticky off the car park ticket, then that's not a dream.

But the hopsital car park is ruddy miles from Subway's in Reading...

Then again, I think those sterotypical fast-food food shots (fresh vegetables being thrown up in the air, slow-mo, drips of water flying off them!) always look awful.

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there's one right beside where I work, I eat there very often, usually a BMT but sometimes the meatball one is good if you're feeling disgusting. Oh and occasionally a melt. I find the only problem is the 6 inch ones can be too small and the foot long is just too big. sometimes you get a bigger small sandwich than other times though. you can never be sure.

oh ronan it probably was rotten when i had it too.. i was pretty hungry that day walking on byres road in glasgow and i could have eaten anything and it'd have tasted great.

actually, in a brief stint of werking in such an establishment, i noticed that the preparation of meatballs (i.e. nuking frozen meatballs in water) routinely cleared the line of would-be diners.

(smells like dog food, except warm. maybe that's why we were always told to do it while the bread was baking...)

England: Expensive and not good. Also: the bread in England = dud. Scrimping on the toppings = dud. Lack of sauces/cheese/fillings = dud.
DUD!

Never healthy. Anywhere. Not if you want something tasty.

I have done extensive research to come to these conclusions. In England, nobody knows how a sandwich like this should be. Everything that should be greasy, is dry. The bread is all flaky and wrong. I don't know why it's different, it just is!

I discovered Subway in Vancouver in 1995 and for some reason fell deeply in love with their sandwiches. They were like this massive treat, for some reason. And even though they weren't expensive, I still manged to blow 3/4 of my entire holiday budget in Subway. A cautionary tale.

hostile, even. insulting to the palate!

really had a think about this the other night.. and I've decided subs are FUCKING GROSS.

Totally concur with Homo.

i had subway for dinner (the mediterranean chicken sub). i can't tell you whether it was fucking gross or not because in this disgustingly hot weather, everything that isn't an ice cube is fucking gross to me.

like george hamilton's cock, these things get soggier and more limp every year

I have only ever had one, in JFK airport and it made me vomit copiously over the mid Atlantic, so dud.

And even though they weren't expensive, I still manged to blow 3/4 of my entire holiday budget in Subway. A cautionary tale.

-- Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:23 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

I imagine having to buy three at a time so that you can use a chewed up Subway sandwich as a paste between two intact Subway sandwiches is kind of a drain on the finances

Blimpie >>> Subway

I had a subway sandwich for my lunch today - the nearest place to where I was working was this weird shopping mall near Murton, co.Durham, and I got tempted by the tasty smell coming out of the place. I ordered some thing with chicken and er some other stuff. It smelled nice, but had almost no flavour whatsoever (last time I had a subway, a few years ago, I seem to remember it being similarly flavourless) the strongest-tasting part of the concoction was the bread bun ffs.

about 1hr later I was working up a ladder when I got this terrible stomach cramp, and had to get down. I packed away my tools and shit, and asked one of the residents @ the apartment block where I was working where the nearest big store was to the place, because I had this impending feeling of terrible crapping. the guy invited me to use his lav, which was nice of him. I was getting kind of desperate, so I accepted. the guy had pictures of betty boop all over his walls, and on the wall ofthe lavatory room, a huge tom of finland poster. so I found myself, sitting on the toilet of a complete stranger in Darlington UK, staring at this picture of theis leather-clad dude with a huge cock visible inside his pants. or several mirrors with betty boop on them. It was kind of awesome, I guess, apart from the stomach pain.

Guy from Darlington = classic / subway sandwich = massive, massive DUD.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to add a pre-made olive salad to their line and offer a low-rent muffaletta.

I was given a couple of Subway gift cards when I was a school bus driver, so I've eaten three of their sandwiches in the past two years. I always ordered the $5 foot long vegetarian sub with extra cheese. For a fast food place they seem to be much less objectionable than most. If I were paying my own money I'm not sure I'd go there, though.

Subway is just the lamest of lame sandwiches. Ugh. No bueno.

I was almost tempted by the 2 for $5 offer they're doing now, and for the pulled pork, which I don't think they're ever had in the past, but then I thought, ehhhh, it's still Subway, and I don't want to sully the concept of pulled pork by trying theirs.

I can't remember what Homer was referring to in The Simpsons when he said "Look at it. Isn't it ADEQUATE?" but it could very well have been a Subway sandwich. It's possible to get an okay-ish sandwich there, and with all of the specials they run there's usually something that's like 3 dollars, so I don't get any of the "overpriced" complaints. And they are ubiquitous.

But their bread is soft and lame, and a footlong is way too big and would make me feel ill.

In summation: meh. I do eat there a fair amount, but there are so many better fast food sandwiches. Does anyone have a Which Wich? in their neighborhood? More expensive thatn Subway, and slow, but lots of choices and really pretty good.

this is the worst thing a human being can possibly eat

What kind did you have? Surely not worse than other fast food places...

mcdonalds isn't healthy but it doesn't send my digestive system into a total meltdown

two bozos brought their footlongs into the library and not only did they smell foul as fuck but because it was a library i could *hear* them chewing and swallowing and it just cut right through me

subway uses regional produce, so the subways in CA > the subways in IN

Does anyone have a Which Wich? in their neighborhood? More expensive thatn Subway, and slow, but lots of choices and really pretty good.

Waaaay too expensive, but pretty good and, because you can order online, you can just pick it up and eat by the time you get there.

Subway brings pastrami around every year like it's a big deal, but any respectable sub shop sells a superior pastrami sandwich year-round and it's not much more, if any more, expensive.

yeah, I treat Subway ordering like Taco Bell ordering, i.e. you have to order only the cheapest absolute garbage items to justify your meal with a high goodness-to-cost ratio.

Subway's best sandwich is one of their cheapest, the meatball marinara. Don't fuss around with a bunch of ingredients. Meatballs, cheese, pickles and mustard. Whammo! In and out in 3 minutes.

yes, it makes me want to cry when dudes load veggies on their meatball marinara.

while traveling i used to rely on subway for a quick meal on the road when not many other options are available. it at least has a vegetarian option, unlike most fast food. it has been passable for me but we tried it again last week driving to see family at thanksgiving and it was terrible, what a gross sandwich. now we get off the highway and try to find a chinese place. chinese restaurants are everything and while they are not all good you can pretty much always get some kind of tofu with fresh vegetables and that goes a long way on the road when you're alternative is subway or mcdonalds garbage.

there is no such thing as a good cold veggie sandwich w/o hummus imo

or I mean it needs some kinda of delicious spread that isn't mayo or mustard

Irish court rules Subway bread is not bread

Never been prouder

Éire showing the way. *salute*

Also ruled Shane McGowan's teeth aren't teeth

if it's got that much sugar why does it still taste like a sponge

-Bob Marley

the choice of bread at subway is like the three flavours of duff, it's all the same and it's all the absolute worst. also they somehow manage to make all the vegetables taste exactly the same, and all the sauces.

Don't you in Europe get the hot peppers?

they do, but they also taste of nothing. very slightly spicy nothing.

dammit I was just coming here to post Nhex's story

i'm kind of impressed with the fact that all the veggies at Subway perpetually look 4 days old. you'd think they had to be fresh at one point

whats weird is, as a kid, I remember Subway being really good. surely at some point they had better standards?