On 9/12/2013 7:29 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 2013-09-12 9:03 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> I've never tried a Subway. They opened one across the street from a
>>> good old fashioned sub shop in my town. I don't know how they have
>>> survived. Some people see a name and go with what they know, I guess.
>>> There's plenty of business to go around.
>>>
>>
>> For a while I worked out of an office that was a few doors down from a
>> deli where I could get a freshly made sandwich on a fresh roll with a soft
>> drink for $1.50 . We are going back a few years. Subway opened up around
>> the corner and there was an Arby's on the same block. I much preferred the
>> deli sandwiches for quality and the price. Judging from the number of
>> people who came in at noon for sandwiches, so did a lot of other people.
>
> I ate at an Arby's once. I think it was around the time Bill Clinton just
> got elected. I remember the bread was so fake yellow it surely was food
> coloring. And the "roast beef" was more like roast beef flavored slices of
> paper saturated in salt. I was still drinking pints of water hours later as
> the salt content was so high it made my lips shrivel.

Arby's meat is a pre-formed and pressed loaf.

As such it is, well...loafy...

There is a franchise that used to have a real sliced beef sandwich,
Hardees, but I think they are all but gone now.


> I am no food snob. I just want something decent at a fair price. I'll eat
> anything as long as it is honest and made with good ingredients. But Subway
> is now on my list of never again chain food shops. Never, ever again.
> There is bad and there is unforgiveable bad and Subway is the latter.

That was a one shop experience for chain that numbers thousands.

Go to yelp.com, read local reviews, even for fast food you can find wide
variations.