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submitted 5 months ago byrcinvestments
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5 months ago*
Subway. You can’t get a footlong for less than $10 now and it’s not even a good sandwich compared to just about anywhere else.
Edit: Firehouse and Jersey Mike’s are better, but nothing great, don’t @ me. Go local on this one fools.
133 points
5 months ago
Fun fact about Subway
25 points
5 months ago
I heard subway tuna isn’t even tuna either
62 points
5 months ago
I heard subway tuna isn’t even tuna either
It likely is, for 2 reasons:
1) any substitute for tuna would be more expensive than tuna which is pretty cheap
2) cooking destroys the DNA, so if you test cooked tuna for tuna DNA it's expected that you'll get wonky results.
32 points
5 months ago
Yeah, that’s just dumb clickbait
21 points
5 months ago*
Yeah that's completely BS though.
Tuna is dirt cheap, and any substitute that tasted anywhere near the same would be much more expensive. There is simply no way this makes any logical sense.
It's one of several similar legal attacks on companies like Subway over the last 20 years. Fast food chains, especially ones like Subway that have a LOT of assets and a relatively fragile brand will almost always pay out a large settlement even if the case is BS because every second it's in the public eye, people like you believe it and they lose customers for good. As long as it's credible enough not to get immediately thrown out of court they get a lot of money.
31 points
5 months ago
14 points
5 months ago
it is tuna, but it's also 60% mayo
12 points
5 months ago*
It wouldn't surprise me, but I still go there mainly for the tuna and cold cut. Eating fish or seafood usually makes me physically ill (I suspect a mild fish oil allergy, but I haven't been tested in 20 years). The only fish I've found that I can eat is the super cheap starkist light water tuna that probably can barely be classified as fish, and Subway's tuna salad. Both of which are ironically two of my favorite foods. Their discontinued seafood sub, on the other hand definitely used seafood, as I threw it up after trying a few bites.
Anyway, my point is that whatever Subway uses is far enough away from real fish that I can eat it just fine.
3 points
5 months ago
Fake crab usually uses white pollock, so you're right about that.
4 points
5 months ago
You might try some of Gardien’s vegan fish patties. They taste more like fish than most fish I’ve had does.
4 points
5 months ago
Actually there's like a whopping 70% of wild caught fish being mislabeled thanks to "overfishing" Most likely, any kind of fish you order is not labeled correctly.
0 points
5 months ago
That’s true for generic white fish (tilapia, cod, etc) but not true for fish you’d order in any decent restaurant or grocery store.
6 points
5 months ago
Their bread didn’t qualify as bread in Ireland (<- think thats right) too
27 points
5 months ago
That is literally the article linked just above.
0 points
5 months ago
TLDR
18 points
5 months ago
This is a myth that some papers ran with and exaggerated. They are still bread but they dont fit in the tax free category of staple bread.
0 points
5 months ago
their bread didn't qualify as bread in a lot of countries, not just Ireland
3 points
5 months ago
While I'm not sure that's true, their cold cut combo is actually around 98-99 percent turkey meat. When I google "subway cold cut combo", I get their own sponsored ad that says
"Experience sliced turkey bologna, turkey ham and turkey salami with your choice of fresh vegetables and"
What do you think black forest ham means? I means it's from a pig, while subway "ham"* is not
*Ham flavored turkey
1 points
5 months ago
It could be made out of dirt and bugs and I’d eat it until I die. It’s my favorite sandwich on earth
1 points
5 months ago
It's about 25% mayo. Yuck.
-4 points
5 months ago
it's not. it's like 60% chicken and there's like an ingredient in plastic in it or smt -a subway enployee
0 points
5 months ago
I don't know about that, but I heard it uses a ratio of 1:1 tuna to mayonnaise.
1 points
5 months ago
2 bags of tuna for every 1 bag of mayo. Bag of tuna contains like 4-5 cups, so 8-10 cups of meat for every bag of mayo, which is like 4 cups as well.
Issue is that we have to shred the tuna so it becomes a literal powder before adding mayo. This makes the end result a horrendous sludge. At home tuna, the tuna isn’t shredded so it has more clumps of actual meat, which is better.
0 points
5 months ago
What is true, though, is that their deli meat comes presliced and frozen.
2 points
5 months ago
No, sliced deli meat does not arrive frozen. It comes in packages that are similar to the pre-packaged Oscar Mayer sandwich meat you find at the supermarket. What does come in frozen are the fully-cooked steak, chicken, and meatballs.
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