On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:45:23 -0600, casa contenta > wrote:

>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.

Hardee's is alive and I assume well in North Carolina. I haven't been
to one in years.
--
Susan N.

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