Why I hate Subway sandwiches.
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Subway has a advertised deal of $5 footlong sandwiches so I decided to try one out the other day. It’s a mistake I won’t be making anytime soon. I remember back in the day when you could get a real sandwich at subway. Well, the times are a-changin’.
I ordered a ham, salami, and cheese on a footlong. The lady behind the counter put 6 small slices of ham even spaced accross the footlong piece of bread. She then asked me what kind of cheese and I reminded her I wanted salami too. Here’s where the cheap cost cutting nature of Subway shows its hand. She takes BACK two of the slices of ham and adds salami slices. This sandwich was so lacking that Subway should’ve just sold it for what it really is, a lettuce sandwich.
The worst part is that I was hungry when I should’ve just turn around and left so I actually bought the thing and ate it… and then I was still hungry after I ate it.
I thought about it for awhile and then I’ve come to realize the genius of Subway marketing and what a big con it is. The $5 footlong will basically get you the same amount of meat as a 6 inch, except you get to spread it out over a foot long piece of bread so don’t think it’s any kind of deal. Also this whole “healthy” thing is pure genius. Basically Subway gets to cut back on more expensive food ingredients (meats) and substitute with cheaper ingredients (vegetables) and charge customers the same for a “healthier” product.
I’ve sworn off ever going back to Subway ever again. Then again I’ve seen the lines there and maybe some people like lettuce sandwiches. 
8 Responses to “Why I hate Subway sandwiches.”
I used to absolutely *love* a little hidden gem of the Subway menu — it wasn’t actually listed on any menus at any stores I ever had occasion to look at, but almost every day for awhile back in the late 90’s I’d head in to the same shop, near my office at the time, and it got to the point that the folks behind the counter recognized me and started putting my “usual” together before I even got to the counter.
It wasn’t as expensive then, either — they were still doing that “stamps” thing (before it changed to a colossal ripoff) — it was basically a free footlong after I’d bought four.
That hidden gem? The “pizza sub” — an artery-hardening concoction of pure deliciousness. It’s just the bread, plus mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, then a healthy dose of the thick sauce they use on the meatball subs (in fact they rang it up as a meatball sub but used some kind of trickery to drop the price a little).
It was a wonderful sandwich, despite its obvious high-calorie content (it had no hint of “healthy” to it at all :)). In the past few years, though, they’ve gone downhill fast. The biggest change that makes these things suck now is just as you described — they’re using a *lot* less meat now. They used to dish out the pepperoni (and all the meats, actually) in pre-measured little bundles, separated by wax paper. They just measured these out at the start of the day, but it made the actual sandwich making much faster, and there was more meat.
The last time I ordered a pizza sub from a Subway store, about a year ago, they did what you described — just eight pieces of pepperoni spread across a foot long piece of break. Bleh. Total suckage. The end result is depressingly thin and wimpy, and certainly not filling.
They’re also cutting the bread differently now, which makes this kind of sandwich messier — they used to slice the top more carefully, and create a sort of “pocket” where ingredients could hide; now they just cut it in half.
I just realized I’ve written a half dozen paragraphs about a sandwich I used to enjoy eating. Heh.
Anyway, I’m with you — no more Subway for me. I can make a better sandwich myself for a lot less.
By Willfe on Mar 29, 2008
How about the fact that although their cheese is triangular they cannot manage to tessellate it and just cause awkward overlaps instead?
By Marisela on Apr 2, 2008
Interesting.
I work at a Subway right now in Utah.
For that foot long pizza sub your talking about. I put on 20 pieces of pepperoni.
I ring it up as a Spicy Italian Which normally has 10 pepperoni and 10 salami.
For the Salami and Ham foot long also mentioned. I would put 12 salami and 4 ham and call it a BMT.
Anywho….. What I really wanted to say was that the 5 Dollar deal sucks for the workers. Twice the business and only part of the money.
We are also supposedly losing money off this deal too.
bah fred deluca!
By Mike on Apr 3, 2008
I bet you whiners are all fat asses.
By fy on Apr 3, 2008
I’m actually 5′ 7″ and weigh roughly 140 pounds so I’m pretty normal.
Maybe you like getting ripped off for a lettuce sandwich but don’t resort to idiotic comments. Then again, intelligent comments generally don’t come out of idiots.
By hejustlaughs on Apr 3, 2008
** NO MORE SUWAY ** for me or my family and hopefully any of my friends. That place is a POS. $5 for ** ANY ** footlong?? That’s a joke. They cleverly add the word “regular” but intentionally omit any asterisk after it that informs the consumer that any double-taxed or “premium” (that’s another joke) sub is not included. At the store, I didn’t even see this disclaimer on the big sign that reads “$5 for ANY footlong – limited time offer”. Yeah – I’ll go back to subway . . . when hell freezes over and I’m telling all of my friends to boycott that junk of a place.
By AngryAtSubway on Apr 7, 2008
Or here’s my favorite…
I’m a vegetarian. I get charged the same $5 for a footlong veggie sub as the same sub with meat on it. Does that make sense?
I used to eat at Subway every week. When the cost of a foot-long veggie sub with the meal deal (drink & chips) went to over $7, I stopped going. Back at that time, I was pissed also because I couldn’t get the special price for a veggie sub. Every day, one of the meat subs was the special. My veggie sub actually cost more than the same sub with meat on it, and they wouldn’t let me get the “special, hold the meat”!
Can you believe it???
Their loss. I live in an area where there are plentiful offerings, so Subway gets $0 from me now — greedy bastards!!!
By Griff on Apr 9, 2008
I actually prefer subway to many places here in San Diego, California. But the only way to actually get your $5 worth is to get the chicken breast, they can’t skimp meat that is already in a patty of some sort. Then onces you get to the veggies, ask them for heavy on the ones you love. Most places don’t mind loading your sub up with the good stuff. You just can’t be afraid to ask.
Just my opinion, but you know what they say opinions are like assholes, everyones got one. =]
By Krystal on Apr 29, 2008