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Donno about America, but here in Australia the amount of meat you get in Subway is perfectly fine. Just as much as in that flash presentation.
Gelsamel Epsilon said:Donno about America, but here in Australia the amount of meat you get in Subway is perfectly fine. Just as much as in that flash presentation.
It was a while ago, so I hope it's still there and still as good as it used to be. They also had lots of dessert/pastry things (that far outnumbered the breads...that's what you notice first is all the sweets). It was downtown, on that street that they have the farmer's market (if they still have that), a corner shop, a few blocks up from the convention center, and a block or two in (i.e., away from the river). It would be a long hike from the university. Now, my impression may have been a bit skewed, since I had already been living in MI by then, and the only decent bakery in the area where I was living charged a fortune for everything. Oh, it's primarily a French bakery. I think they also had a deli counter, though I didn't get sandwiches there, so don't know how they were...I opted to get the bread and coffee there, then wander around the farmer's market for fresh fruits. The coffee there was good too. Hopefully it hasn't been replaced by a Starbucks.Data said:Happen to remember any details? I've been looking for a good one!
moose said:You can't get real bread in the US, what are you all talking about? I've been to Europe countless times (my grandparents live in Poland) and good god the bread is amazing. All of it. The best here sucks.
Well the Quizno's in this area are crap, then. This is an area used to dealing with recent European immigrants (OK long enough ago for their food to be "traditional" in the common sense) and we have regional specialties like Dynamites. These are hot spicy sausage-like meatball sandwiches with spicy tomato sauces, onions, and peppers. The meatballs are long and rolled out by hand and the sauces and spices are passed on through families, not shared (OK, I'll spill the beans, but families in the food trade wouldn't talk for love or money).usahockey said:"Fast food" is exactly that...fast, cheap, crappy food. It takes a little extra money and time to wait for a quality meal...that said, I think that Quizno's probably gives you the best quality and quantity of meat of the fast food type sub shops. Any other chain, forget it, but quizno's seems decent to me.
BTW, I do find the cookies at subway to be quite good.
Moonbear said:I also agree with Jason that service is always slow in Subways, and the people who work there can't even cut the bread in half (for a 6") without squashing the bread. And, their meat is really cheap, and yes, very salty too. It's not worth the price. I just can't figure out how these sort of chains have driven the good mom and pop shops out of business. How can people prefer this crap over fresh-made rolls and good quality meats? It's not like it's even cheaper than going to a real deli. Even an expensive NYC deli is cheaper for the amount of food you get than a Subway, and I can eat half the sandwich and wrap the remainder for dinner when I go to a real deli. For what you get at a Subway, you might as well buy a loaf of Wonderbread (wonder if it's even bread) and some meat at the grocery store and make your own sandwich. I can't even figure out how Starbucks drove our little mom and pop coffee shop out of business either. The mom and pop shop had some fancy drinks too, and really good coffee, and you didn't even have to cross a busy highway to get to it from the campus, so I just can't figure out why people would choose Starbucks' burnt, over-priced coffee over the nice mom and pop shop that sold good coffee for a reasonable price? The mom and pop shop even sold loose coffee beans, so you could buy exactly the amount you wanted of the flavor you wanted, not the pre-packaged beans Starbucks sells in quantities too large to get the benefit of fresh, whole beans.
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Moonbear said:It was a while ago, so I hope it's still there and still as good as it used to be. They also had lots of dessert/pastry things (that far outnumbered the breads...that's what you notice first is all the sweets). It was downtown, on that street that they have the farmer's market (if they still have that), a corner shop, a few blocks up from the convention center, and a block or two in (i.e., away from the river). It would be a long hike from the university. Now, my impression may have been a bit skewed, since I had already been living in MI by then, and the only decent bakery in the area where I was living charged a fortune for everything. Oh, it's primarily a French bakery. I think they also had a deli counter, though I didn't get sandwiches there, so don't know how they were...I opted to get the bread and coffee there, then wander around the farmer's market for fresh fruits. The coffee there was good too. Hopefully it hasn't been replaced by a Starbucks.
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Data said:Thanks. The market's certainly still there; I'll have to do a bit of scouting for the bakery!
It has no mass nor character. A roll suitable for making a sub sandwich should have crispy crust and a center that has enough consistency to complement the fillings. Subway bread has neither and falls to a level just short of commercially-available hot-dog buns. NOT good.Greg Bernhardt said:I think subway bread is the worst. Usually dry and burned.
Moonbear said:Oh, and I suppose that was in from the canal, not in from the river...I was recalling a body of water, but only upon re-reading did I remember it's a canal in Ottawa.