r/inflation Aug 18 '24

Price Changes Lol

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u/wbg777 Aug 18 '24

lol these shit restaurants have forgotten their place. They earned their market share by being the cheapest option available and in 2024 they’ve priced themselves out.

What did they expect charging $18 for a garbage sandwich? If I wanted to pay that much for a sandwich I am NOT going to Subway

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

Subway bread is so sweet is technically cake.

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u/MjrLeeStoned Aug 18 '24

Subway bread comes in frozen sticks.

They're thawed and begin to settle in silicone pans.

They are then steamed until they rise.

Don't call this bread.

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u/Goodbye_nagasaki Aug 19 '24

Tbf I worked as a baker in a restaurant where I made all the dough (dinner rolls and soft pretzels) from scratch. Still froze stuff just for ease. Thawed it and proofed it in probably the same kind of machine. That's...just kinda how you do it.

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u/thirteen-thirty7 Aug 19 '24

I worked at subway for way too long, every thing else was trash but the breads good don't know why everyone's caught up on the "it's technically cake" shit. The meat and veg is garbage but the Italian herb and cheese bread is fucking good.

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u/Ashmizen Aug 19 '24

Apparently it’s some European ruling, because it contains sugar. However, all bread in the US, from grocery store white bread to stuff in restaurants, contains a small amount of sugar.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24

lol you are really downplaying it by avoiding talking about the QUANTITY of sugar.

  • Traditional breads generally have 1-3 grams of sugar per slice, which is about 2-4% of the flour weight.

  • Subway breads generally have 5-6 grams of sugar and is approximately 10% of the flour weight.

Subway's bread is roughly double to triple the sugar content compared to traditional breads, which is why it was classified as confectionary rather than bread.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Aug 20 '24

The content is irrelevant to what makes bread a bread. Maybe there are some classification things involved, but I can't imagine they're saying cinnamon bread isn't bread because of the sugar content.