Wait, people drink coffee on Thanksgiving?
nKoan
3104
Yes, I drink coffee on any day that ends in ‘y’
Easily my favorite greasy spoon diner order.
jpinard
3107
This sounds horrible. I can’t tolerate their current fries without a ton of cheese.
nKoan
3109
bring on the Horseysauce Vodka
nKoan
3111
Close! But it needs mayo to be a true horsey sauce.
Whoever thought this up should be dragged into the street and shot.
I’m not gonna lie–I’d give it a try.
First the bread… now the tuna.
20 tuna samples taken from 20 Subway restaurants in southern California.
It said 19 samples had “no detectable tuna DNA sequences,” while all 20 contained detectable chicken DNA, 11 contained pork DNA and 7 contained cattle DNA.
It’s not like canned chunk light tuna is more pricey than some weird beef or pork or probably even chicken tuna substitute. There just no reason Subway would go through the bother. If it was some sort of soy filler or something, I’d be more inclined to think there might be something there. But replace chunk light tuna with beef? Why?
I’m guessing it’s just cross contamination from contact with other menu items, but I’ll admit that I don’t care enough about the possibility that Subway food is worth exactly what I pay for it to read very much about the issue :-)
Houngan
3118
It’s some cheaper fish and a teenager that doesn’t wash their hands or replace the gloves often enough. If they tried I imagine they would also find the DNA of everything under the sneeze guard, from spinach to the wily pepperonigator.
jpinard
3119
I wondered the same thing. They should take it straight from the bag/box it came from. But if it’s a cheaper fish that is not Tuna, they should get the crap sued out of them for that. But wait… does Subway even have pork products?
All in all this would be a super simply case to dismiss. Subway could just submit randomized samples to an independent lab itself.
I’m not sure you can buy canned fish that is much cheaper than chunk light tuna that would have any chance of being disguised as tuna. 4 lbs of the stuff is $12, at retail: https://www.costco.com/chicken-of-the-sea-chunk-light-tuna%2C-66.5-oz..product.100451825.html. I’m sure Subway could get it in bulk at much less than even that.
Maybe pollock or some other cheap whitefish, but I don’t think they usually can that stuff and dealing with the frozen would be a pain, even if it is cheaper (which I’m not sure it is).
They’ve got lots, unfortunately (being muslim, I wish it was pork free so that there would be less chance of cross contamination). Pepperoni, Ham, Salami, Bologna, and they’ve had bacon as an extra cost topping for a while now. I’ve heard that the Salami and Bologna are turkey-based, but I don’t trust that so I’ve never tried it. It’s dismaying to hear of pork dna in the tuna. I blame the bacon. That stuff gets everywhere.
JonRowe
3122
Scientifically DNA testing is uhh, not great for a lot of reasons, particularly the ease of cross contamination, I would want to see what their testing/sampling methods were, because I would bet there are some issues in testing or sampling. I mean, if they are taking samples from a open kitchen? Good luck, you’ll have every DNA in there.
It also points to why? Canned tuna is cheap as shit, why would they replace it with something else?
These subway litigations and “science” being done with third parties testing their food seems as fishy as the tuna they claim to be selling.