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moller posted:I'm fairly sure the whole "everything is turkey" shtick is less than a decade old. Magic Hate Ball posted:I'm pretty sure their sandwiches are softer and damper than they used to be, especially compared to Jimmy John's, which uses bread that holds up and ingredients that taste like something. Every time I get a Subway sandwich it looks like someone ran it over. I talked to my meat provider back when I was running a bar kitchen that did deli sandwiches for lunch, and they laid it straight out. Subway, at the start of the Great Recession, went to Hormel and said 'How much water can you press into this and still legally call it meat?' Then spun it as lowered calorie counts rather than as increased water percentages. I believe the standard maxes out at ~15% added water (on top of the ~33% water content naturally in turkey), plus a bunch of salt to keep some semblance of flavor. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 16:45 on May 5, 2018 |
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Quiznos had dope subs, RIP. Subway is cheap, which is good Jimmy Johns is good if you wanna slim down from getting salmonella Jersey Mikes good Firehouse good, but the Publix Sub reigns supreme
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May 5, 2018 16:48
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Grognan posted:lol at the visceral disdain at subways is because this is what common people eat Workerist jackass.
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Phi230 posted:Quiznos had dope subs, RIP. Jimmy Johns is great if you want to support a disgusting piece of human garbage. Salmonella seems like a fair punishment for choosing to give them your business.
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Subway: Pedophilia.  Jimmy John's: Right-wing rear end in a top hat who hates unions & providing employees with healthcare. Also enjoys shooting big game animals. Jersey Mikes: Seems okay. Potbelly: Also okay. Firehouse: Pretty cool dudes. Pick any of the 3 out of 5 that don't appear to have terrible people involved, it's not that hard. Grognan posted:lol at the visceral disdain at subways is because this is what common people eat  at people who are 'too good' for White Castle because they'd rather go to any other fast food burger joint.
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May 5, 2018 19:24
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Haifisch posted:Subway: Pedophilia. Only the top two have any presence at all in my metro.
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May 5, 2018 19:28
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White Castle is good. 🏰
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May 5, 2018 19:35
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Grognan posted:lol at the visceral disdain at subways is because this is what common people eat
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May 5, 2018 19:41
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Jersey Mike’s is expensive as gently caress but it’s worth every penny.
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May 5, 2018 19:47
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Are Firehouse the guys with the hot sauce bar? If so, I thought their sandwich was pretty good. They're building a Canes Chicken here now, and I'm looking forward to it because I won't do business with Chick-fil-a despite their chicken being delicious.
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Neo Rasa posted:Subway would be fine if the sandwich content wasn't contained between the worst bread ever. The bread alone brings it down to aggressively mediocre. That’s my bitch as well; before Subway was a thing, Togo’s was the general choice for sandwiches where I live, and they have good bread. Then the Subway Juggernaut came about and really put the hurt on Togo’s - I guess a lot more people were toothless and/or lacked salivary glands than I thought. Now there’s like five different sandwich places near my work - Firehouse, Panera Bread, Togo’s, Jersey Mike’s and Subway. Nobody goes to Subway any more.
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May 5, 2018 21:00
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I miss Togo's, though they did suffer a bit when they paired up with Baskin-Robbins.
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May 5, 2018 21:26
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Liquid Communism posted:Are Firehouse the guys with the hot sauce bar? If so, I thought their sandwich was pretty good. yeah thats them, they're p good imo
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May 5, 2018 21:29
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Pffft. Greggs. Also never seen a Quiznos open. Saw one pre-opening in Birmingham City Centre, but when I went by a month or so later it looked like it had already shut down. At least I thought it was a Quiznos.
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May 5, 2018 22:15
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ellspurs posted:Pffft. Greggs. Well that's England, it's a totally different sandwich landscape. Also, for some reason, Subway's in England stops being the "meh" it is in the US and skips over to aggressively terrible.
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JnnyThndrs posted:That’s my bitch as well; before Subway was a thing, Togo’s was the general choice for sandwiches where I live, and they have good bread. Then the Subway Juggernaut came about and really put the hurt on Togo’s - I guess a lot more people were toothless and/or lacked salivary glands than I thought. yeah Togos was pretty legitly decent for what it was. they had way better bread, and i actually liked their meatball sub. sadly, all the togos here in california have mostly closed up, or at least where i live.
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Subway sucks. Luckily there's a Togo's right next to my house, because Togo's is boss. Jersey mikes and firehouse are just bread bread bread.
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May 6, 2018 00:22
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What about local sub joints? There's one not far from me that blows pretty much every other sub franchise out of the water.
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May 6, 2018 02:55
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In Columbus where I work we have a place called Di'Bella's and its loving amazing, as usual try to find your solid local fare.
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May 6, 2018 03:19
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Any sort of local restaurant is worth trying once but it's never a guarantee of quality. I was excited when a little italian place opened near me but the food was worse than olive garden and they were gone within a year.
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May 6, 2018 03:24
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Sandwiches are ubiquitous, why do you have to eat from a lovely chain instead of a local place
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May 6, 2018 03:43
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New England has D'Angelo's. But you can also get grinders at pretty much any pizza shop.
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kefkafloyd posted:New England has D'Angelo's. But you can also get grinders at pretty much any pizza shop. d'angelos is just the lovely subs that papa ginos makes which is like a knockoff papa johns
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Paradoxish posted:Wasn't this from before they went to their absurdly popular all day breakfast menu? Plus, I don't think bc's point was really that McDonald's can't fail ever.
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May 6, 2018 06:12
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There's something disgustingly wonderful about the hash browns at mcdonalds...
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RandomPauI posted:Renewal requires having actual proof of being enrolled in a college, being accepted to a college, etc. They don't care that much; they accepted my obviously photoshopped tuition bill just fine.
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Vegetable posted:Sandwiches are ubiquitous, why do you have to eat from a lovely chain instead of a local place not everywhere has 'em. i just moved from nyc to ga and i'm having trouble coping with the lack of deli counters serving sandwiches. used to be i couldn't go ten feet without running into a place that could make me a sandwich, 24 hours no less. Now I think the closest place is the Wal-Mart? also the prices for cold cuts here are INSANE
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May 6, 2018 10:01
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:There's something disgustingly wonderful about the hash browns at mcdonalds... ugh my local one just took away the hash brown and sausage biscuit for $1.50 deal, but they lowered the price of the sausage biscuits by $.25, i don't get it
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StrangersInTheNight posted:not everywhere has 'em. i just moved from nyc to ga and i'm having trouble coping with the lack of deli counters serving sandwiches. used to be i couldn't go ten feet without running into a place that could make me a sandwich, 24 hours no less. Now I think the closest place is the Wal-Mart? Georgia has more expensive deli meat than NYC? Sandwich story: I was visiting relatives in south Philly / northern DE and they insisted I eat this wet "thanksgiving dinner" sub and it was the worst thing i've ever had
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Vegetable posted:Sandwiches are ubiquitous, why do you have to eat from a lovely chain instead of a local place There are no local places here because there are so many chains. The last local that stayed open is a meat market that does sandwiches as a sideline.
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Buckwheat Sings posted:4m bk t ti 4vldmlknew l ti uk he ml ml 7juuu new ll I he ml 8kk re v no That’s what I’ve been saying this entire time.
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Can't go wrong with fried potatoes.
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Aliquid posted:Georgia has more expensive deli meat than NYC? nowhere in georgia (or really in america) approaches the density of independent delis that you'd see in new york city it's like complaining that you can't street hail cabs in the suburbs or find a place serving fresh pizza at 4 am
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Vegetable posted:Sandwiches are ubiquitous, why do you have to eat from a lovely chain instead of a local place I had a local place that made great sandwiches, especially philly cheesesteaks. Despite making great food overall, the owner wasn't happy spending a shitload of time for what amounted to small pay. Over time some of her ingredients got worse and after about 4 years she gave up the restaurant. I did manage to find another local restaurant that makes sandwiches almost as good, but they're more expensive.
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It’s a regional chain (Western states plus Wisconsin) but Cheba Hut is really good for toasted subs
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As someone connected to the bike messenger community I'm obligated to get Jimmy Johns so that a kid with a death wish can hand me my sandwich.
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As a disclaimer, I recently lived in two different small cities in Georgia over the space of two years. I will be the first to admit that the state is mostly appallingly hot, humid weather and racism, but given the ludicrous CoL in NYC I find it very hard to imagine literally anything in Georgia (outside of Atlanta, perhaps) being more expensive. I once was offered a job at NYU; the wage wasn't bad but the cost of living is so ludicrous that I would have been working full-time for the joyous privilege of illegally subletting a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere.
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JustJeff88 posted:As a disclaimer, I recently lived in two different small cities in Georgia over the space of two years. I will be the first to admit that the state is mostly appallingly hot, humid weather and racism, but given the ludicrous CoL in NYC I find it very hard to imagine literally anything in Georgia (outside of Atlanta, perhaps) being more expensive. I once was offered a job at NYU; the wage wasn't bad but the cost of living is so ludicrous that I would have been working full-time for the joyous privilege of illegally subletting a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere. new york city is a large urban area where you have a relatively big market for things like immediate sandwiches on demand such that there is space to compete in that market in the style of an old school delicatessen in pretty much everywhere else you're not going to see a neighborhood deli, your options are the deli in the grocery store serving premium branded meats at a giant markup or some wildcat deli hanging onto a small market, or the generic array of sub shops from subway to whatever like you're going to see a lot of businesses which are viable in nyc that aren't viable elsewhere simply because nyc is pretty unique in terms of density and thus what you can get away with as a profitable business through sheer blunt foot traffic for a customer base
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