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Subway Takes Knife In Sandwich Very Seriously
WHO: Subway
WHAT: A man says he ate a subway sandwich and it had a 7-inch serrated blade inside.
WHERE: NYC man says he found knife in Subway sandwich [AP] (Thanks to Jeff!)
THE QUOTE: "Subway restaurants spokesman Kevin Kane says food safety and customer comments are taken "very seriously" and that the company is "investigating the facts."
mcdonalds diet
Man Loses 86 lbs Eating 1,200-1,400 Calories Per Day Of McDonald's Food
Chris Coleson, a businessman from Richmond, VA told his wife he could lose weight by eating anywhere — even McDonald's. More »
subway
Subway's Gift Card Machine Is Indefinitely Broken
Reader Kristina was hungry and ready to make use of her Subway $20 gift card, however, when she tried to redeem it at the Subway store at Water and Wall St. in Manhattan, the transaction unfolded like this:
Me: *offers gift card as payment*
Employee: "Nope."
Me: "I'm sorry?"
Employee: "No gift cards."
Me: "But this is a Subway gift card. And I am in Subway."
Employee: "No gift cards."
Me: "It says on the gift card that this is used like cash in a Subway."
Employee: "Machine's down. You want your sandwich or not?"
This might seem like a routine glitch, but over a month later, "the machine" is still inoperative. Kristina's letter, inside...
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public health
There Are Bed Bugs On The Subway Benches. Yes, Really.
Bedbugs are usually thought of as something that only hotel guests have to worry about, but apparently New Yorkers who like to sit on benches while they wait for the subway should be concerned about the bloodsuckers as well. More »
complaints
Subway Sandwiches Now With Rusty Bolt Goodness!
According to News 10, Josh Sjowall ordered a foot-long roast beef combo at a Subway store in Tracy, California. As he picked up the sandwich he felt a foreign object with his thumb and discovered it was a rusty bolt. And oh yes, Subway is...."taking it very seriously." Details and photo, inside... More »
menugate
San Francisco Orders Restaurants To Display Calorie Information, Industry Laughs
San Francisco passed a resolution last week requiring chain restaurants to display calorie information on their menus, but the industry couldn't care less. They will continue fattening us up like gingerbread cash-cows, regardless of whatever regulations pitiful municipalities hurl their way. More »
menugate
NYC To Vote On New And Improved Menu Labeling Regulation
The New York City Board of Health will vote today on a new regulation requiring calories on menu boards in New York City. The former rule was shot down by a federal judge who ruled that the regulation's criteria for determining which restaurants would be required to post calorie information on their menus was illegal. More »
Turkey subs from Subways in Manhattan now cost $11.03! [East Village Idiot]
fast food
60 Minutes Tackles The Menu Labeling Controversy
60 minutes aired a lengthy report last night on the menu labeling controversy, and all the usual suspects were in attendance. More »
funny
Subway Cheese Scam Protest Tshirt Designed
For only $12.95, you can protest Subway's cheese geometry scam in this fetching tee.
A writeup on Digg says, "The Subway cheese "problem" has been bothering a good friend for quite some time, and after he saw the latest news on the Consumerist a day or so ago, he decided to make a protest t-shirt. I may have to wear one into my local subway as soon as the shirt shows up."
Tongue firmly lodged in cheek, to get every last morsel of improperly laid isosceles cheese from our Subway sandwich that we deserve, we might just buy one.
Scam Tee [Spreadshirt]
PREVIOUSLY: Subway's Incorrect Use Of Isosceles Cheese Actually A Vast Conspiracy
menu labeling controversy
Judge Tosses NYC Menu Labeling Regulation
UPDATE: Menu labeling isn't dead yet, the CSPI says the judge objected to an easily fixable condition of the NYC regulation. More »
leaks
Subway's Incorrect Use Of Isosceles Cheese Actually A Vast Conspiracy
Subway's penchant for not using their triangle cheese correctly is actually part of a diabolical mind-control plan to get you to pay more.
Back in July, Lefthandedtoons drew a cartoon mocking how Subway has triangle cheese, but never arranges it in a rhombus on the sandwich. Instead, Subway invariably lays it in a razorback formation, which the cartoonist felt led to "unnecessary dairy overlap" and "soul-crushing disappointment."
Amused, a UK subway worker printed out the cartoon at work. His boss was not amused and hung the above sign in the storage room, which reads, "Cheese triangles need to be placed [drawing of razorback formation] -> this will promote the need for customers to desire extra cheese - as it doesn't cover whole sandwich. Double cheese [picture of double razorback] = 40 p extra!"
Subway: A Method to Their Cheesy Madness [Left-Handed Toons]
PREVIOUSLY: Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly
the art of negotiation
Just Asking Politely Sometimes Does The Trick
Reader Tim tried to pay for his Subway meal with a debit card today but was foiled by a technical snafu with the card reader. He didn't have cash on him, but there was an ATM machine in the store, so he withdrew the funds and paid the old-fashioned way. The trouble was, he was now stuck with a $2 ATM fee for a $12 purchase. More »
menugate
Wendy's Sends Scary Legal Threats Over Photoshopped Menu That Includes Calorie Info
Wendy's has sent the CSPI a scary legal threat letter over a photoshopped sample (click image for larger version) of a possible Wendy's menu board included as an exhibit in the ongoing "Menugate" lawsuit. More »
complaints
Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly
Come on guys, you got the putting calories on the menu thing right. Now, let's try draping the calories across the sub in a geometrically satisfying pattern, the one that fulfills the design destiny intended by your sandwich scientists. Spurn not their legacy.
An Open Letter To Subway [Left-Handed Toons] (Thanks to Ryan!)
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Subway's "3 Foot" Subs Are Shorter Than 3 Feet
Apropos of our post on new Subway Super-Stuffed Subs, the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures sent us this KNVX investigative news clip into sandwiches that weren't quite measuring up...
We got a complaint about six months ago concerning six-foot subs that weren't six feet long. Subway's response was to change its advertising - in Arizona at least - but not address the issue that its six-foot subs were about four inches short of the advertised length.Our favorite part is when the calipers show Subway's three-foot sub box isn't even three feet long.
Sub-Standard [KNVX]
fatty fat fats
Updated: Subway Introduces Calorie Bomb Sandwich (It's Called A Super-Stuffed Sub)
UPDATE: We called Subway (like we should've done at first) and the sandwich is called a "Super Stuffed Sub". One of them is named, "The Feast." In it, you get all the meats (turkey, ham, salami, pepperoni, and roast beef) plus bacon and cheese on "special double-braided bread" (aka challah bread), for $7.99. The sandwich is being test-marketed in NY. Here are some pics of some dudes trying to eat one. They look like they're choking. Subway seems to be trying to one-up the the mondo-meal market pioneered by McDonald's Supersize.
Somehow we don't think Jared would approve.
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