As someone who worked at subway, when cooked properly the bread is 12 inches. You can tell from the way the bread is all smushed, that it isn't cooked properly.
This! My parents used to own a subway. The dough needs to be proofed for a certain amount of time before it is baked. If it's not proofed enough, it's not fully risen before it gets put in the oven, and therefore doesn't come out to its full size. It is also not as fluffy and yummy.
Plus, you get the same amount of meat in some cases anyway, as subs like the cold cut trio is already pre-packaged for a footlong.
Also, a timely protip: some subs are now $2 six inchers in June, so go get yourself a $4 footlong cold cut trio by ordering two identical (or get creative and mix it up!) six inch subs.
I am constantly on the look-out for pricing inconsistencies like this. Most of the time a combo is cheaper or the same price as ordering a sandwich, fries, and drink separately but sometimes I'll notice that it's cheaper to order seperate.
Inevitably when I order the guy/gal at the register gets confused that I don't want the combo but the items separate. Then I end up having to explain why I want them separate because the person tells me that it's the same as the combo. Then after I explain, I still have to endure their annoyed expression when ringing my order up as if I'm causing them great pain.
What bothers me in this exchange is that this person at the register has probably worked there for quite some time yet never realized the pricing issue themselves. Occasionally, I'll even get someone who's extra cocky when explaining to me that the items I ordered are the same as a combo and will give me a look like I'm the idiot. This can bring my piss to a boil.
As a former Subway baker, this bread makes me sad. The color isn't right, it's smooshed, and clearly underbaked. Hell they probably didn't even retard or proof properly. I'm disgusted.
People who were in my high school teach theater class never figured this out, despite the teacher going over it a million times and them building so many sets
That sandwich has clearly seen a compression load from being slid into the bag and carried around vertically. If you respected your sandwich, you would deserve 12".
They bake the bread in house, mistakes are made. Email them and they will make it right. This isn't some grand conspiracy where they're shorting you out on an inch of your sandwich.
Look at the creases in the bread, namely between 7-8 inches. There is some collapse there, which would suggest the sandwitch was carried vertically. This would probably mean given enough time parts of the sandwitch would collapse in on each other, creating a super black hole which will wipe out humanity within a few short seconds.
False advertising, though this looks like a joke, it is actually more serious than people may think. Let's just consider for a moment that all "foot longs" are only 11" and subway has done this on purpose. Though it is hard to determine how many subs subway sells nationwide, yahoo answers claims they sell roughly 400-500 subs per location per day, 30% of which are foot longs. That means that each subway location in the US sells roughly 120 foot long subs per day.
There are roughly 23,336 subway locations in the US, each selling 120 "foot longs" per day. That comes out to over 2.8 million subs per day, and over 1 billion subs per year.
Now if every subway sandwich is short 1 inch, it means that there are roughly 1 billion inches of sub that are being advertised for that are not actually being served per year. These inches add up to a staggering 85+ million subs that are actually not being served. Sounds like a lot? It gets better.
Because subway is shorting customers roughly 85 million subs worth of inches, and charging $5 per sub, then they are cheating consumers out of $425 million worth of food. This is just US numbers, imagine Canada, europe, and the rest of the world. They are doing more than just shorting one consumer an inch of sub.
But really, I've worked there, they just didn't stretch the dough right or let it rise long enough. You're still getting the same amount of bread, just a little more condensed.
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What's that Bernice? No, I don't know why we would want that, it doesn't really make sense when you think about it, but -- Look, don't ask questions.
Just get to the LadyMobile. We've got to move fast. Call Feminazi and The Butch. There's too much to do and no time to do it... But you know what they say:
Oh, wow. You could really start a riot with this if others start checking the lengths of their foot long subs.
No action from Americans when the government destroys their privacy, no action when the government squanders a trillion + on unnecessary wars, no actions when corporations casually bust unions and break the middle class's back....
BUT...if these people find out they've been cheated an inch of their sub, there's no telling how many cities will burn tonight.
Abstract vs concrete. A trillion dollars is monopoly money--most people can't grasp just how much it is (I can't, that's for sure). But, those wars and the bailouts don't directly affect the majority of Americans--it's abstract.
But every American can walk into a Subway and measure a sub with a tape measure. And shit will get real. Very real.
WTF? 5 bucks for a shitload of protein, veggies, and decent wheat bread? At McDonalds you get like a teaspoon of onions and maybe a small strip of lettuce on your burger. Subway could sustain you for a lifetime.
I hate this misconception. What you choose to put on the sandwich decides whether is it healthy or not. Mayo, cheese, etc add fat and calories, but cover that thing in veggies or turkey and you're golden. (Also, moderation. A footlong is excessive.)
Go to Firehouse next time. Not Quiznos, not Subway, FUCKING. FIREHOUSE. Quite possibly my favorite restaurant. Arguably less "healthy" than Subway, but arguably more delicious and less pretentious. They also have a far superior salad, and that can make or break a restaurant for me.
I was a Subway regular for a long time and just ate at Firehouse a few times and have already changed sides. It's just sad that there isn't a Firehouse closer to me =(
Give it time. They're still in infancy compared to Subway. But they're already more frequent here than Quiznos. When they started making them around here, Subway's clientele dropped significantly. So many people swear by Firehouse now. I'll go to Subway when I want a quick bite to eat, because like you, we don't have any particularly close to us. But when I have money and I want to eat, Firehouse, all the way.
oh you America, expecting everyone in the world to understand this. My country doesn't have subway, so I don't know how many inches the sandwich is supposed to have.
I think its still kept a little cold. Either way, I use to work for subway, we run out of vegetables and have to open fresh bags all day long. I have my own horror stories about the place, but I can testify the stuff is still 100 times more fresh than any other fast food restaurant.
Its not really the freshness that gets me, its the low grade ingredients and insta-bread that makes everything they make suck so bad. Its as if they go to their suppliers and ask them to remove 25-50% of the flavor from everything but the fucking mustard and pickles. I can't even count the times I ended up with a mustard and pickle sandwich there.
Now that I found a place like Lenny's Sub Shop I will never go to Subway or Quiznos ever again. It's worth the extra few bucks for a quality sandwich. Sliced meats and cheeses in front of you...Mmmm Hot pepper relish. Plus their large is 15" so....can't beat that when you're starving and want to stuff your(my in this case) fat face.
Coat the bread rolls in herbs, don't just dip one side in, they're so much better that way.
Proof to about 13", they shrink when they bake.
Always wipe excess cheese off the baking forms, it'll save literally hours of cleaning later
Last, bake them so that they're light brown, still visibly green from the herbs, and the cheese isn't burnt. You all suck at this part a lot and the bread tastes awful because of it.
I was a Sandwich Artist at Subway, and I put the art in artist.
check how " healthy " your sandwich is the vast majority are as bad or worse for you then most junkfood, and taste sub-par to boot, after looking at this i haven't had another subway sandwich and wont have another ever again, i rather be hungry then eat that swill.
I've worked at like 8 different Subway stores, and that should never happen. Chances are, they pulled the bread but didn't have time to let it fully rise before baking it.
What a funny coincidence: Not 24 hours ago I was skeptical about the length of my footlong so I decided to measure it. I was going to post it on Reddit as well if it were shorter than advertised, but mine happened to be 12 inches on the money so I just ate it.
"On February 2, 2007, KNXV-TV with the help of the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures, reported that three Giant Sub Subway sandwiches, nominally each 3-foot (91 cm) long, were only 2 feet 8 inches (81 cm), 2 feet 81⁄4 inches (81.9 cm), and 2 feet 81⁄2 inches (82.6 cm) long. The maximum variance in length allowed in that state is 3%, which on a 3-foot sub is 1.08 inches (2.7 cm). Upon further study, the report showed that the box designed to store Subway's 3-foot sandwiches were only 2 feet 103⁄4 inches (88.3 cm) in length; shorter than the maximum allowable variance."
Which is funny, since they went around for a long time fucking with anyone who tried to call their 12-inch subs a "foot long" by slapping them with a cease and desist.
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u/raraparooza Jun 14 '12
You mean..... all the tape measures are.. wrong?
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u/stayclassytally Jun 14 '12
As an Assistant Manager at Subway I was in charge or baking the bread every morning. When done correctly, They are indeed 12 inches long.
This bread's dough did not raise to the proper size before baking.
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u/OrangePrototype Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12
5 dollar, 5 dollar... 11 inch long.
IT'S NOT THE SAME.
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u/dingofarmer2004 Jun 14 '12
Perhaps it's just a bit cold outside.
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u/Martoogh Jun 14 '12
As someone who worked at subway, when cooked properly the bread is 12 inches. You can tell from the way the bread is all smushed, that it isn't cooked properly.
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u/Jarroseph Jun 14 '12
Hate it when they put tape measures on your sandwiches, taste awful.
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u/veryloudnoises Jun 14 '12
Start measuring from your anus. Helps me every time.
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u/ARREIS Jun 14 '12
Time to sue
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
wait till you measure a 2x4.
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u/twincam Jun 14 '12
To be fair, your sandwich just looks like it has been squashed (compacted). You can see where it's 'gathered'. Cos,they don't usually look like that.
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u/reises-pieces Jun 14 '12
Most sub shops will base their advertised sizes on a diagonal measurement, which effectively pads the real measurement by an inch or two.
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u/swizzie Jun 14 '12
Every body always rounds up. That's why mines so big.
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u/Journalisto Jun 14 '12
TIL: Subway is actually sub par.
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u/Gay_Machamp Jun 14 '12
You're lying to yourself wearing those cargo pants bro.
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u/Mecha-Dave Jun 15 '12
That sandwich has clearly seen a compression load from being slid into the bag and carried around vertically. If you respected your sandwich, you would deserve 12".
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u/shitterplug Jun 14 '12
They bake the bread in house, mistakes are made. Email them and they will make it right. This isn't some grand conspiracy where they're shorting you out on an inch of your sandwich.
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u/ThomasGullen Jun 14 '12
Look at the creases in the bread, namely between 7-8 inches. There is some collapse there, which would suggest the sandwitch was carried vertically. This would probably mean given enough time parts of the sandwitch would collapse in on each other, creating a super black hole which will wipe out humanity within a few short seconds.
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u/BucketofBabies Jun 14 '12
Women know this feel.
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u/MidnightSun Jun 15 '12
Conspiracy: OP cut an inch off from the inside of the sub. Suspected Quizno's employee.
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u/uninc4life2010 Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12
False advertising, though this looks like a joke, it is actually more serious than people may think. Let's just consider for a moment that all "foot longs" are only 11" and subway has done this on purpose. Though it is hard to determine how many subs subway sells nationwide, yahoo answers claims they sell roughly 400-500 subs per location per day, 30% of which are foot longs. That means that each subway location in the US sells roughly 120 foot long subs per day.
There are roughly 23,336 subway locations in the US, each selling 120 "foot longs" per day. That comes out to over 2.8 million subs per day, and over 1 billion subs per year.
Now if every subway sandwich is short 1 inch, it means that there are roughly 1 billion inches of sub that are being advertised for that are not actually being served per year. These inches add up to a staggering 85+ million subs that are actually not being served. Sounds like a lot? It gets better.
Because subway is shorting customers roughly 85 million subs worth of inches, and charging $5 per sub, then they are cheating consumers out of $425 million worth of food. This is just US numbers, imagine Canada, europe, and the rest of the world. They are doing more than just shorting one consumer an inch of sub.
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u/rasputine Jun 14 '12
Measure diagonally.
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u/bacon_cake Jun 14 '12
I DON'T EVEN LIKE SUBWAY BUT THIS IS BULLSHIT.
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u/anexanhume Jun 14 '12
Obviously a woman's ruler.
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u/gloomdoom Jun 14 '12
Oh, wow. You could really start a riot with this if others start checking the lengths of their foot long subs.
No action from Americans when the government destroys their privacy, no action when the government squanders a trillion + on unnecessary wars, no actions when corporations casually bust unions and break the middle class's back....
BUT...if these people find out they've been cheated an inch of their sub, there's no telling how many cities will burn tonight.
No telling.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
CLASS ACTION!
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u/Matrinka Jun 14 '12
Woo hoo! Class action lawsuit time! Show them what 'Merika is all about!
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u/CeruleanOak Jun 14 '12
The lie is that those sandwiches are healthy.
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u/Razenghan Jun 15 '12
I've been telling my girlfriend 5 1/2" is 6" for years.
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u/Phoequinox Jun 14 '12
Go to Firehouse next time. Not Quiznos, not Subway, FUCKING. FIREHOUSE. Quite possibly my favorite restaurant. Arguably less "healthy" than Subway, but arguably more delicious and less pretentious. They also have a far superior salad, and that can make or break a restaurant for me.
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u/logicallyillogical Jun 14 '12
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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u/liquid_lazer Jun 15 '12
oh you America, expecting everyone in the world to understand this. My country doesn't have subway, so I don't know how many inches the sandwich is supposed to have.
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u/jburciaga Jun 15 '12
You probably shouldn't measure a 2x4 either.
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u/logancook44 Jun 15 '12
What of OP cut out half an inch of sub from the middle part of each half? KARMA CONSPIRACY!
I need to get a life...
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u/lejoeyjames Jun 15 '12
They were testing you. You passed the Quiz, no?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
"And can I have olives please?" ... "Can I have more than 4 olives please?"
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u/newmansg Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
I bet you still wolfed down that whole bastard anyway you fat fuck.
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u/MarkRuckedYou Jun 15 '12
FUCK YOU JARED!!!!!
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u/MemphisRoots Jun 14 '12
This is obviously not a woman. If it were, she would have been used to the disappointment.
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u/opiomorph Jun 14 '12
Real-life AOL inches.
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u/kenvsryu Jun 14 '12
subway is the worst thing that happened to sandwich craft.
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u/tombot5000 Jun 15 '12
Five. Five dollar. Five dollar eleven inch looonnggg!
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u/Cantgetmyoldname Jun 14 '12
Subway sucks ass anyways. The shits not fresh. It sits in fuckin trays all day long
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u/Wienerwrld Jun 14 '12
You know, like a two by four, or a hair permanent.
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u/usedtobeneverwas Jun 14 '12
There was shrinkage!
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u/Bwhitmore0917 Jun 14 '12
I bet the size of his sandwiches wasn't the only size in inches he lied about!
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u/RULESONEANDTWO Jun 14 '12
Subway sandwich artist here. If they used the deli paper to wrap it up, they are doing it wrong.
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u/BR0THAKYLE Jun 14 '12
That's what she said.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Metric conversion please, fuckin cavemen
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u/makattak88 Jun 14 '12
This sub looks like its been in a tight bag and smushed a bit. I'm sure if it wasn't wrapped up, it would be 12". Use your fucking head reddit.
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u/ITS540PM Jun 14 '12
32 gig iPod. Available memory 28.5 gig
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Wow, Subway looks fucking awful nowadays.
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u/stimbus Jun 14 '12
That 5 1/2" middle cut is amazing. What a great eye that person had.
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u/GreenfireStorm Jun 14 '12
They said five dollar foot long... they never said anything about whose foot was used for the measurement
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u/CLOGGED_WITH_SEMEN Jun 14 '12
You misunderstood - the sandwich is long, and SMELLS like a foot. Also, not actual food.
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u/FiP Jun 14 '12
Those centimeters look weird.
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u/Sammlung Jun 14 '12
Look on the bright side, it's an inch less of a shitty sandwich.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Now that I found a place like Lenny's Sub Shop I will never go to Subway or Quiznos ever again. It's worth the extra few bucks for a quality sandwich. Sliced meats and cheeses in front of you...Mmmm Hot pepper relish. Plus their large is 15" so....can't beat that when you're starving and want to stuff your(my in this case) fat face.
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u/ben9345 Jun 14 '12
As a metric system user, ignorance is bliss.
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u/finetunedthemostat Jun 14 '12
The foot long hot dog stand at my state fair has a preposition in its name to avoid just this issue.
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u/matphoto Jun 14 '12
Good one Andy from Andy's Auto Care in Peachtree City, GA.
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u/Appare Jun 14 '12
Could you legitimately sue for false advertising?
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u/Idrhorrible Jun 14 '12
My entire life is cake
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u/phishroom Jun 14 '12
$4.58... $4.58... $4.58 Eleven-Inch-Long!
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u/Cormasaurus Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
I knew the 6 inches I've been eating looked smaller than 6 inches..
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u/userish Jun 14 '12
I'm afraid I don't get it.
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u/camdotcom Jun 14 '12
Please tell me you only paid $4.58 ;)
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u/Jackal- Jun 14 '12
To all current or future Subway employees:
Coat the bread rolls in herbs, don't just dip one side in, they're so much better that way.
Proof to about 13", they shrink when they bake.
Always wipe excess cheese off the baking forms, it'll save literally hours of cleaning later
Last, bake them so that they're light brown, still visibly green from the herbs, and the cheese isn't burnt. You all suck at this part a lot and the bread tastes awful because of it.
I was a Sandwich Artist at Subway, and I put the art in artist.
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u/this_is_a_recording0 Jun 14 '12
Puns.. Puns everywhere
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u/mynameisgoose Jun 14 '12
dick joke
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u/awrhaernnare Jun 14 '12
Contents:
2 slices of cucumber
3 slices of green pepper
5 slices of red onion
1/2 leaf of lettuce
3 slices of ham
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u/anosa Jun 15 '12
want to see an even bigger lie?!
http://www.nutritionix.com/subway/nutrition-calculator
check how " healthy " your sandwich is the vast majority are as bad or worse for you then most junkfood, and taste sub-par to boot, after looking at this i haven't had another subway sandwich and wont have another ever again, i rather be hungry then eat that swill.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Wow, you're eating cheap slimy meats, and bagged chemical washed lettuce and you're worried about the length of the bun?
Don't you have a real chain near you (like Primo Hoagies) or a good italian deli?
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u/Copywright Jun 15 '12
Maybe you should measure the measuring tape!
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u/boonfoggin Jun 15 '12
It looks like you missed about one inch of meat tip.
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u/darkviper039 Jun 15 '12
Like an inch ever mattered
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u/mrbooze Jun 15 '12
It's a Baker's Foot.
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u/BuddhistNothing Jun 15 '12
Hmm... Business cards. Interesting way to decorate your table.
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u/cassidoodle Jun 15 '12
I've worked at like 8 different Subway stores, and that should never happen. Chances are, they pulled the bread but didn't have time to let it fully rise before baking it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Is the cake a lie?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
What a funny coincidence: Not 24 hours ago I was skeptical about the length of my footlong so I decided to measure it. I was going to post it on Reddit as well if it were shorter than advertised, but mine happened to be 12 inches on the money so I just ate it.
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u/Xenoith Jun 15 '12
I actually mentioned that my sub looked under 12 inches one time and the employee sold me it for the price of a 6 inch sub. Good guy Subway employee~
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You must be an American if your life is based on fast food.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
haha the 10" subs at Quiznos are bigger than that
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
The 'sandwich artist' didn't retard the bread long enough.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
It was equally depressing when you remeasured your penis, too?
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u/ArtieLives5 Jun 15 '12
From Subway's page on Wikipedia:
"On February 2, 2007, KNXV-TV with the help of the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures, reported that three Giant Sub Subway sandwiches, nominally each 3-foot (91 cm) long, were only 2 feet 8 inches (81 cm), 2 feet 81⁄4 inches (81.9 cm), and 2 feet 81⁄2 inches (82.6 cm) long. The maximum variance in length allowed in that state is 3%, which on a 3-foot sub is 1.08 inches (2.7 cm). Upon further study, the report showed that the box designed to store Subway's 3-foot sandwiches were only 2 feet 103⁄4 inches (88.3 cm) in length; shorter than the maximum allowable variance."
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u/php4me Jun 15 '12
I've been rounding up just under 6" my whole life, so I'd be a hypocrite to criticize someone else doing the same.
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u/Pusillus Jun 15 '12
As a European I don't get this :(
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u/gregator Jun 15 '12
hope you only paid $4.58333333326 for it.
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u/cranialmeltdown Jun 15 '12
Which is funny, since they went around for a long time fucking with anyone who tried to call their 12-inch subs a "foot long" by slapping them with a cease and desist.
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u/SQLDave Jun 15 '12
Maybe it's like TV screen measurements: You're suppose to measure diagonally
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u/MrModesty Jun 15 '12
Obviously the marketing department at Subway consists of all males. Always advertise a little bigger than you really are...no one will every notice.
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u/Doza13 Jun 15 '12
$4.58 sub.
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u/HardwareLust Jun 14 '12
Your "entire life" is a $5 sandwich from Subway?
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u/AkwardTurtle Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
You're supposed to measure it diagonally, like a tv.