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Buy local you dumb fuck.
Salad Dodger
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The smell of their bread baking. What bread smells like that? It's artificial and odious and doesn't smell like bread that I've encountered anywhere but Subway. Nasty.
I don't hate it. It's just meh.
Overextension and overexposure; for a while, Subway was just behind McDonald's in the list of stuck-to-the-bathroom-floor-quality fast food joints that everyone can access, and its attempts to grab attention with their ad campaigns and five-dollar-footlongs have simply effed them over due to rising inflation and a generally-weak economy at the time. They did manage to bankrupt Quiznos while on their expansion spree, however, so at least we can thank them for putting an end to the ads with the baby who thinks with an adult man's voice.
Gus Johnson did a couple of videos slamming just how low the quality is, but we can't pin the blame for Subway's notoriety on just one person (not even Jared Fogle). I can't think of another big fast food chain that has had as many hilarious controversies (Hep A, soy chicken, underpaying the staff, the aforementioned Jared) relative to what's known about it, however. Like with McDonald's, Subway is a franchise, but it's too big and too incompetent to micromanage all of the subpar practices happening under its roof.
Also Jimmy John's is better, and much faster.
Here, have a disgusting wikiHow image from the article for how to make a Subway sandwich yourself.
Gus Johnson did a couple of videos slamming just how low the quality is, but we can't pin the blame for Subway's notoriety on just one person (not even Jared Fogle). I can't think of another big fast food chain that has had as many hilarious controversies (Hep A, soy chicken, underpaying the staff, the aforementioned Jared) relative to what's known about it, however. Like with McDonald's, Subway is a franchise, but it's too big and too incompetent to micromanage all of the subpar practices happening under its roof.
Also Jimmy John's is better, and much faster.
Here, have a disgusting wikiHow image from the article for how to make a Subway sandwich yourself.
For a while, Subway used what is lovingly referred to as a "yoga mat" chemical to "condition" their bread. Who knows what they're using now?
wokelizard
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They're a harbinger of a pretty grim future, the kind where we all live in boxy cubicles and work menial jobs for megacorps. Anyone can make a sandwich, but they take that option away from anyone by being ruthlessly and efficiently adequate so join them as a wage slave or die unless people stop eating corporate crap once if they care enough to spare the few dollars extra to find an independent place.
They're almost always run/staffed by trashy, low-educated fuckers who give no shits about food quality or cleanliness. I'm not particularly in the mood to eat expired cold cuts, wilted lettuce and mushy veggies served to me by some hood rat or trailer trash who looks like they last washed their hands when Bush Jr. was President. There's plenty of better sandwich shops out there and you won't pay much more than you would for Subway's overpriced slop.
Its probably for the same reason people really hate McDonalds: Its literally everywhere. Some time during the early 2000s they started building these things on almost every single street corner.
On top of that, before Panera got popular Subway was the place to go if you were an annoying hipster. Their whole "healthy" angle helped them catch on as a fad chain, and a lot of people who didn't normally eat bigass sandwiches started going there. As time went on the number of people actually buying from them decreased because the logistics chain just couldn't keep the food up to snuff . So you ended up having these hipstery places that sold somewhat expensive food that was about on par with Taco Bell at the end of the day. Their workers ended up being understaffed and overworked, and a lot of locations ended up closing down.
This one's just a guess on my part, but I think a lot of city slickers also hated how cheap and horrible Subway was compared to their local sandwich shops. Deli owners also probably hated the competition too. I know New Yorkers and Chicagoans take that bullshit really seriously.
Last embarassment was the fact that A. Their spokesperson who lost weight eating Subway ended up getting fat again and then B. Dude turned out to be a pedo.
Really it seems like this company couldn't do anything right.
On top of that, before Panera got popular Subway was the place to go if you were an annoying hipster. Their whole "healthy" angle helped them catch on as a fad chain, and a lot of people who didn't normally eat bigass sandwiches started going there. As time went on the number of people actually buying from them decreased because the logistics chain just couldn't keep the food up to snuff . So you ended up having these hipstery places that sold somewhat expensive food that was about on par with Taco Bell at the end of the day. Their workers ended up being understaffed and overworked, and a lot of locations ended up closing down.
This one's just a guess on my part, but I think a lot of city slickers also hated how cheap and horrible Subway was compared to their local sandwich shops. Deli owners also probably hated the competition too. I know New Yorkers and Chicagoans take that bullshit really seriously.
Last embarassment was the fact that A. Their spokesperson who lost weight eating Subway ended up getting fat again and then B. Dude turned out to be a pedo.
Really it seems like this company couldn't do anything right.
Subway is hated primarily because it's like the cockroaches of sub places, they're everywhere, and they're gross. Super processed, not fresh, fuck that.
Catch me dead getting a sandwich from Subway over Publix or any other place that can do their job but for less and/or better.
Catch me dead getting a sandwich from Subway over Publix or any other place that can do their job but for less and/or better.
Islamic Creampie
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I ain't gonna lie, I love their chicken teriyaki. Even beyond that, where I live there's no other options for subs like that.
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You enter a Subway store, and it’s deserted, slightly too cool to be comfortable, slightly too damp to feel clean, and slightly too bright to be inviting. There is one lonely employee, who sheepishly pockets their tiny electronic escape window as the sound of the door drags them back to reality. They do their best not to look at you for those awkward 10 seconds while you walk to the counter before you’re close enough to order. They give their greeting, ask you what you want, you begin scanning their workspace.
The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was here, but minimum wage buys minimum effort. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it’s staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person’s hat.
Do you want it toasted? You do, so you spend a minute in silence with the stranger you disturbed, waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You feign interest in the cookies while the infrasound hum of some overworked piece of machinery builds to an unscratchable itch just behind your forehead. The toaster mercifully releases its hostage, and it is splayed open before you while you call out soggy vegetables to abuse it with.
You observe as the employee assembles your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don’t want to touch it either. It weezingly inhales the kitchen scraps and windex aroma that permeates the store. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn’t really seem to fit in and is handed to you.
You walk into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air outside feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can’t picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car. When did it get this bad?
The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was here, but minimum wage buys minimum effort. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it’s staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person’s hat.
Do you want it toasted? You do, so you spend a minute in silence with the stranger you disturbed, waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You feign interest in the cookies while the infrasound hum of some overworked piece of machinery builds to an unscratchable itch just behind your forehead. The toaster mercifully releases its hostage, and it is splayed open before you while you call out soggy vegetables to abuse it with.
You observe as the employee assembles your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don’t want to touch it either. It weezingly inhales the kitchen scraps and windex aroma that permeates the store. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn’t really seem to fit in and is handed to you.
You walk into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air outside feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can’t picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car. When did it get this bad?
I worked at a Subway and I don't know what the smell is from either, but their quality control is the worst. Tomatoes and green peppers come in, some are rotten, some are way over/underripe, and even the meat has mold spots on it before it's even out of the bag. Then you have to trust whatever incompetent manager to actually make sure that not only those bad ingredients never make it to the bin, but actually follow the "use by" dates.
murgatroid
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It has a distinctive smell that's horrible and sticks to your clothes/body.
I used to swear by Subway, but over time, the quality of the food just dropped. Now, it's barely edible.
Everything is fake turkey shit, according to my sister-in-law who used to work at one. It's just flavored differently.
Subway is just a safe bet. There's one in every shitty town in England and the food is exactly the same at all of them.
Although if I'm looking for something familiar I'll probably just go to one of the 5 Greggs that definitely exist in whatever town I'm in.
Although if I'm looking for something familiar I'll probably just go to one of the 5 Greggs that definitely exist in whatever town I'm in.
I don't get the hate, I think they're decent.
But far from great, the process of picking what you want on your sandwich is slow and tedious, there isn't really a great reason to pick them over much better options.
But far from great, the process of picking what you want on your sandwich is slow and tedious, there isn't really a great reason to pick them over much better options.
