Haha! Donald does make for the best rage gifs.
I’m pretty sure it’s twelve “inches” per loaf. If you want a six, they cut a loaf in half.
In other words, just one size loaf. I have eaten at Subway many many times. :(
You must be painfully skinny to know so little about the glorious practices of Subway. Elhajj’s got it right.
I blame Obama.
I wish. I just don’t eat at Subway. There’s a much better sandwich place I frequent. They have measurements marked on cutting board there they use to cut the bread to order. Thought I remembered it being similar Subway.
I think you’re right as far as the process goes, but every Subway I’ve been to has a storage area with craploads of loaves so I can’t imagine them getting in a rush and having to pull loaves to bake more in a hurry - it seems like they bake everything in the morning before they open.
Also, the loaf may have been 12 inches but who knows - they scrunch them up so much when they wrap them, I think it’s entirely possible they could squeeze an inch out of the bread just in the wrapping process.
Lastly, don’t eat at Subway all the time. Unless your name is Jared.
In college (many years ago) I worked a second job as a lunch shift “sandwich artist” at the Subway just off campus. It was low pay, but the people were all cool and the real benefit was the free footlong I was allowed to take home after every shift. When you’re a starving college kid, that’s money…
Anyway, they do bake the bread on premisis, but it is shipped from off-site in the form of pre-cut frozen dough sticks. As Rich described, the dough is thawed and humidified in a special oven for a time before being transferred to the real oven to bake. Most of the time my store would bake a ton of bread in the morning for the lunch crowd, then around 3:00 bake another large batch for the dinner folks. We never seemed to have an issue with running low. On the other hand, these days with everyone cutting costs wherever possible I can totally see a store baking too little bread in the morning or the afternoon and being caught short when lunch/dinner rush arrives. Rushing the bread through the process could defintely result in shorter and denser loaves at the end.
If you’ve seen those Arby’s commercials calling out Subway for slicing it’s meat at processing plants instead of in-store, that’s absolutely true. We would get meat pre-packaged and pre-sliced, and stock needed to be carefully checked to insure it was fresh. Veggies were always cut in-store in the mornings (except lettuce which came in bags from the supplier pre-shredded and pickels which came in large containers pre-sliced).
Honestly, I never once saw anything stomach-churning the entire time I worked there. To this day I still rank Subway as one of my top fast food restaurants in terms of trust level simply because of my experience there and the fact that they make your food right in front of you, so there is little room for the kind of shenanigans you hear about at burger chains and whatnot.
The more I watch it, the more I laugh.
Donald the Raging, Speech impaired Duck
Those commericals make me laugh every time. As if cutting the processed meat tube right there in the store makes it any better tasting.
That’s my take on it as well. I’m sure teenage minimum wage workers will do whatever they can get away with, (I know I did) but they assemble the sandwiches right there in front of you so it’s a lot tougher to do anything really disgusting.
Subway isn’t terrible. They’re not the equal of the mom & pop sandwich place or the kosher deli, but A Subway sub will do for $5 when you’re hungry.
I dunno. The Subway located in the local Walmart has a bad reputation for poor sanitary conditions. I’ve heard that from a lot of people who believe they’ve gotten food poisoning from the place. So there are ways that even a Subway can be bad food choice.
The problem is they advertise how everything is made fresh, but more accurately it is just assembled recently. Arby’s cooks their meat in the restaurant. Subway also has wildly varying quality in terms of franchise ownership. There are plenty of stories out there about mold being scrapped off frozen dough loves before baking, and spoiled cold cuts causing food poisoning. At most burger or pizza places you at least have a recent application of high heat to rely on to some degree for food safety.
This is why I never go to Subway, because WaWa is everywhere now in this area. A 10" at WaWa without extra meat/cheese puts on a substantial more amount of meat than Subway, and if you do get lettuce/tomato/onion you get more of that too. I’ve never had to eat a Subway hoagie in a way that required holding it to keep in the toppings, it was always an easily flattenable piece of bread with only one or two slices of meat and cheese. It’s pretty sad.
It’s funny because from the picture of the menu:
you’ll never get a Subway hoagie that looks like that. At WaWa, you will.
Honestly, if you’re not getting lots of veggies Subway isn’t worth it. I get the Italian and it’s really more of an Italian salad with pepperoni/salami garnish. If I want a sandwich loaded up on meat I’ll go elsewhere (usually Potbelly).
Yes. Cooking and slicing the processed meat tube right there in the store does make it better tasting. I’m not sure why you’d think it wouldn’t.
Also, buying frozen cookie dough and eating the cookies fresh baked off the sheet is better than buying Chips Ahoy.
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I have no problem with Subway or the amount of meat they put on. I spend $5 and I get a quick meal (or two) that won’t give me a heart attack. That’s a better deal than any other fast food place.
Because it’s a tube of processed meat?
So is a hot dog, but I’ll take one that’s just been cooked over one that was prepared a few days ago any day.
Wawa is one of the few things I miss after leaving NJ. Thankfully there is a Brooklynite run deli near me that imports good bagels and Taylor pork rolls.
As someone who had the “experience” of living in NJ for a time, and having relatives come visit that weren’t from the East, a description of what a WaWa is (ie., a Casey’s/7-11/Circle K) is really needed. Because it still sounds stupid as heck :) Granted, the south still has Piggly Wiggly’s, right?
It’s not being cooked, it’s being sliced. Cooking and slicing are not the same things, even if you think that they are.