Be Excellent To Each Other

I am now sat at my desk with a foot long Subway Melt with Southwest sauce. People, you CAN make a difference...

I'll let you know how it goes.

Fucking filthy shit. It's actually more downmarket than McDonalds.

It really is. At McDonalds, they don't get the kids to literally massage the burgers for you with their unwashed pissy hands, before serving it at a high price and saying it's "Healthy". I speak from terrifying experience.

The thing is with Subway is that the average branch is also far less clean than McDonalds. Say what you like about Maccy D's , but they usually have staff on the floor constantly clearing up. Every Subway I've ever been has an unclean feel, litter and uncleared tables.

It's also usually full of bloody students dressed like Russell Brand.

Well, it wasn't bad. I can see the appeal, but I doubt I will eat it very often. I do feel extremely full, though.

The meat seems to taste of some strange chemically thing though, instead of meat. It soon gets drowned out by the bacon and sauce though.

I think I've eaten my year's allowance of salt today...

*collapses*

The smell of a Subway shit-hole as I walk past them in the street almost makes me retch. That's not a bread smell, no matter what they think.

Agreed, what is that smell? It's like Play-doh mixed with Ritz-Cracker pulp or something.

I'll admit, I haven't actually been to a subway since 2001, but back then it was really good quality, good staff and very clean. Walking past another branch a few weeks ago, the smell didn't make me want to go in the way it used to back then.

I tend not to bother with them anymore, but I still like meatball. Problem being is that they force you to decide and decide and decide. We aren't from New York, we really don't know what we want. I order a foot long meatball on cheese and herb with one layer of cheese slices with the first guy, and I still get shuffled along past the sauce boy and salad girl and so on to the till monkey who wants to know why you haven't ordered a cookie and a drink yet, despite the fact that the offer is on the display, the till and her shirt.

They never just take my order and chuck it to the till, we all have to do the shuffle. And of course, most don't know whether they want ranch sauce or jalepenos. Most don't know what thee things are - the most commonly spoken words in that place are err and umm. And what's with the fucking cheese thing? Do you want cheese? Yes. Do you want extra cheese? Erm......

Why not have one question - how much cheese would you like? Then one may say none, some or lots and get cheese accordingly. The staff are dumb for going through with that and the customers are dumb for playing along.

So yeah, fairly stupid place, with middling quality food. Absolutely fine for a filling range of options when arriving in town for a night of pub having skipped tea. Get one down you and fuck off - they never seem to take long to eat compared to, say, a burger, do they?

I've only been to 1 Subway once ever, and that was in an industrial estate in Beijing. I had a salad sandwich ordered by pointing. It wasn't very nice but at least the shop had air conditioning.

Brace yourself, because one of Subway's targets is '2010 by 2010'—in other words, 2010 UK stores at least within three years from now.

It's a shame one isn't "Meat not produced by mechanical recovery".

Waste not, want not!

Lunch cost me £8.88p. That's more that I want to think about.

My lunch cost £2.80. That's for a third of a baguette filled with turkey, tomato and pepper, a packet of Frazzles and a can of Diet Coke.

Mine just cost £1.60. I was pleasantly surprised! Diet Cherry coke, some mashed potato cheesy onion stuff with a crunch topping and broccoli.

Fuck me, I spent £1.50. £1.70 if you count the Pepsi from my stock supply.

Grim... paid for the butler to be chauffeured to get it, though. [/continuing beating dead horse gag]

Loaf of bread from Aldi - 85p (Used about 25p worth)
Pack of Pastrami £1.99 (Used about 50p worth)
Pack of Maasdam Cheese £1.40 (Used about 30p worth)
Blob of mayonnaise (Used about 5p worth)
Crisps from multipack 20p
Breakaway from multipack 20p

Total = £1.50

Man, I wish I had started some kind of "Lunch" thread to encompass all this sort of stuff, thereby helping to improve the signal-to-noise ratio here. Damnit, why didn't I? Why? Why???

edit: I spent £5.70 as I went for my semi-regular Friday Games Release Day Games Treat Fest.

Jus' goin with the flow CUS. Anyway it was my dinner. I'm a northerner.

I was just saying in general, Zardoz, having just now noticed that this was in a new thread. Except, now Curiosity's going to think I'm having a go at him. And as I've already made clear my dislike for Muse, this will only compound the certainty. Causing him to snap back at me, and ... oh gods. I blame Anthony Flack.

Tomorrow I'm going to have tuna salad, I have just now decided.

That is so tasty, cost effective and sensible you could probably run for chancellor of the exchequer off the back of it.

Why thank you sir.

We need a with a doffing animation

For reference, at last check they had just under 1000.

Cripes. I wondered why both Brownhills and Bloxwich had sprouted branches. For anyone not living near these shitholes, they're shitholes.

That poll is blatantly missing a "Nowhere near as good as Quiznos" option.

Wrong, wrong, WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Quiznos don't even let you double the meat. Last time I was in there I had to let them charge me for two subs to get one with double meat on.

WRONG.

Exciting America facts about the USA: Whilst I was over at Xmas visiting my US-based American girlfriend who lives there in the new world, I discovered that America has surprisingly few Subways, along the highways and byways. Quiznos, however, are all over the place. So if you like Quiznos then you could do a great deal worse then to get yourself a partner who is a citizen in that fine foreign nation elsewhere, and travel there to there see them, in America. Then, get yourself a Quiznos, because they were seemingly the most prevalent eatery after McDonalds, in the United States of America.

Never tried them.

It depends entirely where you are in the US, though. In Florida, Subway is rife, but then so is just about every other brand of fast food. (Driving along Gulf-to-Bay Blvd in Clearwater is like watching one of those old cartoons where the background keeps looping.)

Conversely, visit England. I went to a place called Brownhills and can confidently say all of England is covered in vomit and dogshit, and the only places to eat are 1 chipshop and Subway.

But that is correct.

I've never had the courage to go into Subway. I don't think I've got the time or patience enough to get them to make me a sub with just ham in it. No green stuff, no onion: just ham.

Just ham. JUST HAM. JUST HAM. JUST HAM!

Now that I've stopped eating at Sayers (because I've decided that they're foul and disgusting), there's nowhere else left for me to eat while I'm out.

I think I might die. :(

Ginsters sausage rolls are nice, and I'm close to perfecting my microwave heat vision.

Which would be useful if I knew of the existence of more than 1 in the whole UK.

There's one in Birmingham, not far from it's famous Omega Center thingy. Where's the one that you know?

I'm being hounded off these boards by Muse-haters!

OR... I'll just alter the title and all lunchtime discussion can be added here.

New York was full of them when I went couple of years back. It's where I had my first one, actually.

Well there's one in the Plaza on Oxford Street in London... and ... err.

OK, point taken.

I've just been watching a triple bill of Series 7 Seinfeld, and I am unable to read that in any voice other than an angry George Costanza. "IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?!" ~

America, you say?

I thought I was the only one who actually finds this smell nauseating. Thank you, sir!

I spend more on appalling, cheapo cider per day than most of you Subway loyalists do on foot-longs, but thankfully nowhere near as much as Craster does on coffee and fags!

McDonalds?

To confirm, this was indeed the only one I know of, surrounded by about 15 Subways within 5 minutes walk.

Maybe I should actually go in, the only thing I've ever bought from Quiznos is a bottle of Mountain Dew in denver airport.

I had my First one in LA (just off Venice Beach if you must know!) in '95 OMG, they had FREE REFILLS!!!!! Just around the corner they had the most excellent internet cafe, and a club where I knew the bouncer (I was only 20 at the time) so was one of the few places I could actually drink when over there.

That is the only one I have seen in the USA. (but then I have only been to Helena, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; Los Angeles, California; San Fransico, California; and New York, New York (oh and Denver, Colorado, but only really the airport). I guess it's possible I saw others and forgot about them, but the one in LA is definatly the only one I've eaten in whilst in America.

Malc

I very nearly did that last time I had one. Never again.

I had a Burger King meal last time I met my sister (mostly because there were Viva Pinata toys in the meals) and it was at least passable as food, but whenever I see that grey concoction that is a McDonald's meal I feel quite nauseous. The food looks like it is made of play-dough.

McDonalds, making chips:

In the UK, I very rarely eat at chain fast-food places now. My wife kind of likes Subway, so we eat there occasionally, and Burger King gets the nod in emergencies. Other than that, I'd prefer to spend a little extra and go to our local chippy, or get a curry from the rather wonderful curry house in Hartley Wintney (Monsoon—go there if you're ever in the area). Either that or just go to the local pubs, whose food is now about a quid or two more than McD's, but for much better quality.

Funny, really, that the best US chains—Wendy's, Checkers, Chick-fil-A—either didn't survive in the UK or never came here in the first place. On the plus side, the utterly dreadful Taco Bell also didn't last here, although part of me wishes that it had, on the off chance that it would have ignited a UK love of Mexican cuisine, thereby leading to more Mexican restaurants (not Tex-Mex) in this country (as opposed to the eight or so that seemingly currently exist).

Oh, how I wish there were Wendys here instead of McDonalds - that'd be an excellent trade, if the twice I had Wendys was any indication. At risk of sounding all 'On my holiday' again - I ate at a few 'hole in the wall' Mexican places, which I wish we had here. Being able to quickly order some 'real' burritos, enchiladas, and getting loads of extra rice, refried beans and cheese wherever I went, was excellent. Especially since it was always so cheap, and the refills always seemed to be free. Went to Taco Bell once - mine was almost ice cold, my missus' merely lukewarm.

Imagine if you could get a nice pub lunch as easily and quickly as you could a Subway.

McDonalds FTW


apart from when you are in LA, then its In-N-Out Burger

Gah. I hate people who dither in Subway... although it's usually stupid, thick women. How hard is it to decide what you want? That's what makes it so nice - you get ONLY WHAT YOU ASK FOR. It's not like Burger King where as soon as you receive your Whopper you have to take it apart and throw away the sickening onions and discoloured bits of lettuce.

Granted, the whole concept works a lot better with the North American concept of customer service (open questions, ie: what bread? how much cheese would you like? what toppings and sauce?) as opposed to the British way (closed questions: double cheese 20p extra? Onions lettuce tomato cucumber and I have already started putting these on before you could answer? I am from Eastern Europe where the cost of this one sandwich is almost a week's salary) so you have to pick which branches you go to to ensure your sandwich isn't ruined. The one at the bottom of St Mary Street in Cardiff, for example, has this obnoxious staffgirl from Soviet Russia who gets on my tits to no end.

I agree some of the ingredients look a bit dodgy - the roast beef sometimes has that rainbow sheen you see from spilled fuel on the road, the tomatoes could often do with a few more days of ripening, and I am reluctant to order anything that needs to be heated up (because it's done in the MICROWAVE, for fucking fuck's sake.) Also, the toasting option. WHY? The bread is often bad enough as it is without it being further nuked, and surely the Italian Herbs & Cheese bread toasted to a crisp would be like eating actual broken glass.

Sandwich recommendations:
BMT/Subway Club on Honey Oat with tomato, pickle, olive, jalapeno, mayo and honey mustard.
Meatball on Wheat with tomato, olive, jalapeno and Chipotle Southwest.
Sweet Onion Teriyaki Chicken on Honey Oat with olive, peppers and sweet onion sauce (NB: only get this as a six inch - you won't be able to stomach a footlong)

Wendy's>>>>>>>>Subway>KFC>Bugger King>etc (McDonald's isn't actually food, and so doesn't count)

Unless you're in Canada, in which case Harvey's is in second place behind Wendy's.