Anything over 8" is too much, anywayFollow

Sounds like any household on a budget.

Use 'em to get apps for your Obamaphone.

...spend?

Shit, I've been eating these things!

Must have been quite the crash diet when they switched to the card system.

I'm the odd bird who actually likes Subway sandwiches Not that I think they're AMAZING (favorite sandwiches so far: Hogan's subs in Gainesville. Oh man, those things are PHENOMENAL), but for the price you get a reasonably filling meal, customized as you like, with tons of different options.

Personally I usually take
Footlong Wheat
Black forest ham
No cheese
Toasted
Mustard
All condiments except olives and tomatoes. So...
-Lettuce
-Spinach
-Green peppers
-Banana peppers
-Jalapeño peppers
-Onions
-Cucumber
-Pickles

... now I'm hungry

Edit: Oh, and it's only 600 calories for all that. So that's spiffy too!

Edited, Jan 25th 2013 4:28pm by LockeColeMA

Chicken Teriyaki on Italian herb and cheese w/ cheese and some lettuce. Toasted. No dressing.

I'm in favor of a system where everyone who enters the restaraunt just hands the sandwich maker their shoes and they use that to decide the final sandwich length. If the TSA can do it, its good enough for me!

Yeah. Subway is pretty much at the bottom of my sandwich choices as well. They're just "meh" IMO. Cheap, I suppose, but there are other sub shops that are similarly cheap. There's a place called Submarina around here that is about the same cost as Subway but vastly better in quality. Togos is also better in every definable way possible. Quiznos is good but expensive. And that's without getting into the huge variety of actual delis with actual nom nom sandwiches, usually made by people who actually know what they're doing.

Having said that, I also think this is a silly lawsuit. Of all the things you could complain about, you're going to complain because their "footlong sub" is an inch and a half shorter than a full 12 inches? Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've never assumed that the phrase "footlong" meant I must get a sandwich that's exactly 12" long. If you watch then cutting the bread at most sub shops, they have measurements for 6" or 9" sandwiches. But a "footlong" just uses the whole piece of bread. And let's face it, bread doesn't always bake to exact specifications. I'd think any halfway intelligent person would realize this and accept that they're getting a larger sandwich for what is still a very good price and just move on. Do you measure any loaf of bread you buy to verify it's the exact same size as the one in the bag next to it for the same price?

Then again, lawsuits are rarely based on what an intelligent (or even halfway intelligent) person should realize. They're based on what lawyers can make hay out of, so it doesn't surprise me at all that they'd make hay out of this.


Oh. And the comparison to eggs would not be the number, but the size. Anyone who's purchased eggs knows that the cartons often come in labels like "medium", "large", "jumbo", etc. But the actual sizes tend to vary based on whatever sizes the eggs from the farm happened to be that week. The large tend to be bigger than the medium, and the jumbo tend to be bigger than the large, but I've seen a pretty huge variation in how big the eggs in a given "large" carton actually are. Do I sue the company that packages the eggs because last month the eggs in my "large" egg carton were nearly jumbo size, but this month they're more like medium? Or do I just accept that nature makes eggs in different sizes and that the size measurements are meant to be estimates? Just like bread doesn't bake to uniform sizes and the phrase "footlong" is an estimate.

Not that the lawsuit wont win anyway, but that's our legal system for ya.

One of my guilty secrets is that I like a nice veggie Pattie sandwich .. nothing wrong with a nice subway, uh huh.

The thing for me though, is that I could not care less about the length. That's not what I buy the sandwich for, it's all about the filling It must taste divine.

My thoughts exactly.

I live in a small town that has a total population of barely 8000, and that includes the outlying areas.

We have three Subway restaurants... One in the downtown area, one in a little mall plaza on the far side of the Wal-Mart parking lot, and one inside Wal-Mart. Those two are actually about 500 feet apart. It's the only restaurant that we have multiples of. I enjoy Subway, while obviously not the greatest thing ever it still tastes good to me. I think it's another of those "Mileage may vary" things based on the specific restaurant you are visiting, as with many Franchises. Sure, ingredients and methods are somewhat standardized, but there can be quite a bit of variance depending on other environmental factors.

Locally there is one smaller Pizza/Sub joint that has three branches in towns about 3-4 hours away. They sell 18" and 9" subs, for 11-12 dollars and 6-7 dollars respectively. They are a bit pricey but just about every month they give out coupon pages that have multiple "Buy one get one free" subs. There subs are all baked, similar to Quiznos but much better. The few times I've had Quiznos they toast their subs and it tastes just like that... Toast. The inside of the bread is hard and crispy, and kind of flavorless. This place puts their subs in their Pizza oven and bakes them. I don't know what they do exactly but the bread comes out soft, moist, and flavorful. Like a pizza rather than a sandwich built on toast. They are a tad greasier than your average chain sub though (but I'm not eating them to be healthy).

Also, when I initially heard this story (a few weeks ago), they were just talking about how they measured 10 subs and found only a small number of them were 11.5 inches. Seems that as the story progresses they are saying the subs are smaller and smaller. I wonder why the lawsuit doesn't mention the "Half" subs being anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4. I've always ordered a footlong when I go there, but I see the employees eyeballing "half" and ending up quite a bit off at times.

(And yes, I am saying Quiznos is overrated and not much better than Subway).

Edited, Jan 26th 2013 6:49am by TirithRR

I'm positive Subway has mozzarella.

It's been probably 7 months since I've gone, but I just remember, for a couple years now at least, people getting shredded mozzarella on their subs. I personally always went with pepperjack.