On 9/12/2013 7:37 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2013-09-12 9:29 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
>
> I had a look at the contents of my Arby's beef sandwich. It didn't look
> like any roast beef from a cow that I ever ate.
>

Of course not, it's a processsed meat loaf.

>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> My very limited experience with Subway was not that bad. I was not
> particularly impressed with the sandwiches or the price. There are lots
> of Italian joints around here that have better sandwiches for a lot less.