Thread 21640642

Subway is good. It's just expensive as hell

>>21640642 (OP)
I like a double Seafood Sensation from time to time as my guilty pleasure

>>21640643
since when does subway sell imitation crab

>>21640650
since the 80s anon. it was originally called "seafood & crab" up until they uncontinued it in 2018. when they brought it back in 2020 they started calling it "Seafood Sensation™" which is dumb but it's the same product

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good
it's literally not.

>>21640656
that doesn't sound super cheap compared to what fast food prices in the 80s seemed to be like

>>21640642 (OP)
I hate subway bread. It has the texture of biting into a wet paper napkin.

>>21640650
I was in Canada a few years ago and subways there were doing a promotion for lobster rolls. It was like 20 bucks a sandwich though.

Ewwww hahahahaha yea right that shit is NASTY

>>21640642 (OP)
I got terrible food poisoning the last time I ate it so I'm staying away for good.

>>21640642 (OP)
Subway is dog shit for fat retarded American golem to get fatter and stupider.

>>21640642 (OP)
You can go to any local deli and get a better sandwich for less

>>21640642 (OP)
Use the app. A few months ago they had three footlongs for $22 or so.

>>21640642 (OP)
How much does it cost now? If it's not close to $5 it ain't worth it

Their bread tastes like alcohol to me at every location. The location near my house that I went to two times two years apart has a toaster that burns every sub that goes through it and presumably it still does.

Outside of coupons, I never go.

There's usually a local sub shop that makes it better and cheaper.

>>21642169
no american will ever care about you, no matter how much you want them to

>>21642541
That’s nice, dear.

I just had a footlong hoagie for lunch.
Bought it this morning for $1.90.
Think I still have the receipt. I only went to the store cuz we needed milk this morning and I'm nightblind so couldn't go yesterday but it worked out in my favour since I got a cheap, extremely filling lunch out of it.

>>21640642 (OP)
>remember back 20 years ago when the whole point of fast food was that it was a cheap way to eat
>now every single fast food place is as expensive as a normal restaurant
I hate this shit so much

I was there once. Never again. Its not autism friendly.

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good.
Unimpressive bread.
Gross sauces, too sweet with totally the wrong mouth-feel.
>good

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good. It's just expensive as hell
Huh? It's just about lowest tier.

Publix sub, or you go to a great italian restaurant, or whoever is known to do the good subs in town, and it's never subway.

You pay for the freshness and quality so of course it's gonna be pricy. You try to keep all that stuff at home and it'll go bad in no time. Subway is one of the only places you can go where are the ingredients are fresh and available. That's what you pay for. A fresh superior sandwich beyond one you can normally make yourself at home.

This is simple shit people...

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good
Go to Jersey Mike's and you will never utter this sentence again

>>21640642 (OP)
The only good thing Subway has ever had is the meatball marinara and I will die on that hill

>>21640642 (OP)
imagine paying money for that. jesus wept.

>>21643807
>You pay for the freshness and quality
>freshness and quality
>freshness
>quality

>>21643807
>quality
I had Subway exactly twice. Both times were subpar. I'm convinced that's how it got its name. The meat is weird and the bread even weirder. I will not have a third go. That shit is for people without access to actual delis.

>>21643813
Agreed, and honestly that went out the fucking window when they stopped being $5 footlongs/ rapidly transitioned to $8.49 and then $11 footlongs.
Ngl I miss a gud meatball sub, it was even fine despite always getting kinda sweaty in the lil bag.
(I know I can just go buy one but I flat out refuse to pay these ridiculous price gougey fucking rates, all fast food nowadays, it’s insane. I am but one man holding his ground through the simple practice of supply and demand, and I hope there are more of me out there)

>>21640642 (OP)
Do you guys think the ad-dude who was once heralded as a champion among sbubby employees for coming up with the $5 footlong ad campaign has been crucified by corporate because there’s now an entire two generations of people roaming the earth, fucking LIVID that it is not $5?
I have specifically not eaten there in more than a decade because it’s no longer $5.
I’ve heard other people say that when someone suggest sbubby.
They had to have realized that wouldn’t be sustainable in the long run, but it was so catchy that it has fucked them big time.

>>21640642 (OP)
Honestly I don't understand why you can't buy footlong bread anywhere. At best you have baguettes which are rock hard and can't be properly stuffed

>>21640642 (OP)
Just buy a sandwich at a bakery

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good

>>21643937
this is a good fucking point honestly

quiznos better

>>21643958
>you can't buy footlong bread anywhere
The fuck? They're sold at every supermarket in my area that isn't Aldi, Save•A•Lot or Walmart. Even Lidl has them so it's not a "no poor people stores" thing. You must live somewhere farther inland, one I've flown over a few times.

>>21640642 (OP)
It’s 3.99 for any 6inch plus tax. Put SIXINCHSUB in the promo box when you check out. I’ve seen so many clowns wait in line and fork over full price, just use the fucking app. Good macros as well, lots of variety. Subway is underrated is my hot take.

>>21643937
>>21644063
McDonalds had $1/any size coffee for ages, and then about 10 years ago they tried discontinuing it, raising prices, claiming that it was always a "temporary" deal. Immediately they lost revenue as all the wagies switched to $1 gas station coffee, forcing them to resinstate the deal within weeks (since that also meant wagies were buying breakfasts from gas stations). Does anyone else remember this?

>>21644142
I vaguely remember this.
I also remember when not even a decade ago I could get a mcgangbang for $2.14, and now it’s like $9 and change for just a mcdouble and a mcchicken.
I wish people would’ve done the same thing with actual fucking food, but laziness reigns supreme.
There wasn’t an equally easy alternative for them to revert to.
What were they gonna do, cook?
>inb4 just get the app
So I can pay $5 at BEST for something that should cost $2.14? Fuck nah.
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve drunkenly walked into a mcdonalds and just fucking looked at the menu prices and left.
That tweet that said “we had $1 mcchickens and 24 hour Walmarts and had no idea how good we had it” was right.
Thanks for reading my grumpy almost 30 year old boomer rant.

>>21644142
I don't eat at McDo but I've seen similar things so I believe it. In my case, it was two years ago when Kellogg's released Extra granola. Fucking delicious but $10.99 per box. Despite it being a huge motherfucker (28oz), granola is heavy for its size compared to more typical cereals so it used the same size box as a $2 box of cereal with 11oz of Rice Krispies in it.
As such, nobody fucking bought it. It went into clearance pretty quickly after release and Kellogg's offered $5 off unlimited use digital coupons around the same time as well so I wound up buying 14 boxes for 50¢ each. That's $153.86 worth of high quality cereal for $7, less than 5% the original price. They then rereleased Extra with a new logo, new look and new, smaller plastic pouch for $6 for 14oz and act like the larger, cheaper box never existed. Despite it being /more expensive/ per ounce, people are buying it.

>>21644182
Catching how good a deal that was, buying all that cereal for $0.50 per box, and mathing out how much you got at full price is 100% something I would do and then tell all my friends about, hah.
Anon, at our core, we are brothers.
I am proud of you for making the juug.

>t. grew up poor and I absolutely live for shit like that. i swear, finessed food actually tastes better.

>>21640650
They do in australia

>>21644299
don’t forget your ground harness when you go outside m8
it would be a cryin’ shame if you stepped outside and fell right into the sun. crikey.

>>21644175
>I cannot tell you how many times I’ve drunkenly walked into a mcdonalds and just fucking looked at the menu prices and left.
Ngl sounds a little fun, if I lived next to a McDonald’s I’d probably drop in every time I’m drunk to look disgustedly at the menu and then leave

>>21640642 (OP)
It's not good and it's not expensive. But it does hit the spot the odd time

>>21644296 #
Ha, yeah.
I pull shit like this all the time. But before that, my wife used to complain that I "squabble over pennies" over stuff we don't even typically eat. But we do eat cereal. Or at least my kid and I both do. And even if it's something we don't typically consume, I find a way to use it, anyway, otherwise, it would still be a waste of money.
As for telling my friends, they already know. See, my brain is wired differently where working this sort of thing out is just instinctual and quick but all of my friends say that it would take them too much time and effort to figure shit like that out.
They go to the store and see prices creeping up. I go and see deals everywhere. Most recently, 4.4oz pots of Fage yoghurt? Free. There 4 for $4 and they literally have a clipstrip of $1 off 1 coupons in the same fucking aisle.
Rice•A•Roni a few months ago? Also free. 50¢ coupons right in the same aisle and Safeway doubles manufacturers coupons. Couple that with a 10 for $10 sale and they're free, too.
Loaf of bread? 29¢. Buy Nabisco multipacks and get $1 off bread. Weirdly, the 6 packs of cookies at checkout count as "multipacks" so bread and cookies for $1.09 total. I get produce, milk, bakery even store made subs for a pittance. I mentioned earlier in the thread that I bought a footlong hoagie for $1.90 yesterday morning.

>>21644759
Nta but presumably you have all the store cards too? I've always resisted, I'm an old man who misses the days when you could just exchange cash for goods, but the store member deals are starting to wear me down, and even if they're tracking you, it's certainly better than an "app".

>>21644299
$20 for a chicken and bacon melt is daylight robbery though. You can beat your ass imma take that 20 down to Woolies instead

>>21644895
The only subway I've ever been to in australia is on rottnest island so its doubly expensive but I guess there is a cost to seeing cute white girls working at subway.

>>21644863 #
I do indeed have the store cards. I technically "have" the apps, too, but I just access everything through the website. I've never actually downloaded and installed any app except Ibotta.
I gave them all fake info so no, they're not tracking the real me, just some guy with a different name, different address and different phone number who happens to actually be me. But if you have ever used a credit card, they're tracking you already. I bought something from Walmart online, like, twelve years ago. Now, anytime I go to Wally World and use my credit card, I get an email asking me to rate my experience.

subway is garbage

I rather get a simple sandwich from the bakery instead of that slop

>>21644985
>But if you have ever used a credit card, they're tracking you already.
You are correct. This has been technically possible for ages but they probably avoided exposing it blatantly before due to the optics. Now, people are used to being tracked and sacrificing privacy for convenience.

>I bought something from Walmart online, like, twelve years ago. Now, anytime I go to Wally World and use my credit card, I get an email asking me to rate my experience.
Home Depot did the same thing in the last couple years, automatically linking in-store CC purchases to your online account.

As for phone apps, it almost doesn't matter, if you're carrying any cell phone except a burner you're identifiable anyway, just a matter of a few extra hops through the data brokers. But I remain ideologically opposed to installing "McDonalds software" on my portable computer.

>>21645031
In 2010 I bought strawberries at Publix and came home to ads for Publix strawberries as I browsed the net. I couldnt figure out how until I realized it was the credit card.

Never really encountered that again but in the early days of big data advertising people were getting weirded out and they quickly adjusted to being more subtle and showing you things that didn't tip their hand to let people know just how much big data knew about them.

>>21645031
>I remain ideologically opposed to installing "McDonalds software" on my portable computer
I agree. I've gotten "app only deals" just once from a fast food place. Burger King. One cent Whopper with any purchase. Guess what qualified as a purchase? 25¢ packets of ketchup. So I placed the order for the ketchup through the website (never downloaded the app) gave it my proton email, which is my throwaway, and waited for the confirmation that the order was placed and I got my code. I actually used a Burger King Gift Card at the time, too, because Safeway has a 10× multiplier on them IE buy a $20 gift card, get 200 rewards points. I still have that gift card in my wallet but as I said ITT already, I don't really do fast food. If I become aware of some other promotion, I'll use up the other $19.74 left on the card.

>>21640642 (OP)
Jersey Mikes is better. Shit, even Wawa

>>21643339
how was it so cheap?

>>21643411
aww i'm sorry, fellow neurodiverse fren

>>21644069
they're still in business?

>>21645359
>how was it so cheap?
$7 regular price, $5.40 personal price and 50% off sticker cuz it was leftover from the day before (nobody's making hoagies at 7am). I don't mind a day old sando.
Anyway, if I used the self checkout, it would've been $2.70 (50% off my personal price) but because I used a manned register, the cashier took 50% off the regular price because the cashiers have to manually apply clearance discounts and I knew she wouldn't notice my Just4U discount. $5.40 - $3.50 = $1.90.
Still, even if I'd gotten it fresh at lunch time, it still would've only cost $5.40 compared to whatever ridiculousness Subshit charges these days. $11, according to >>21643928.

>>21645421
How do you name your own “personal price” at a subway? I am both confused and curious.
I want a just4u discount, dang it.

>>21645364
hell yeah

>>21640642 (OP)
subway is the opposite of good and its the opposite of expensive

fucking poor retard.

>>21645586
It's not at Subway, it's at Safeway, a supermarket chain. And you don't name the price. In order to keep customers loyal to Safeway, they throw out unlimited use coupons called Personal Prices under their Just4U digital coupon thingy. They alter the base price of your purchases like coupons but since they don't technically count as coupons, they can be stacked with actual coupons as I did with the 50% off sticker on that sandwich. That sticker was a coupon.
Most of the personal prices they offer are for things we'll never use but some are extremely useful. Milk here is $4.99/gallon. My personal price is $2.99, picrel. See the little green U? That's the indicator that it's a Just4U personal price. Same with the cheese below it.

>>21645738
Ohhh, that makes sense. Thank you anon. I’m from the south and I don’t really think we have Safeways here, I could be wrong though.
I’ve only ever seen them when traveling in the Colorado/ rocky mountain range area, California, and I think up north near NC, but with the NC thing I could be thinking of somewhere else.

>>21640642 (OP)
I haven't been in many years. Has the cold cut quality improved since they started slicing them on-site?

>>21640642 (OP)
I've always liked subway, somehow they always hire the cutest mid girls as their sandwich artists
Anyone else like their soup?

>>21640642 (OP)
>Subway is good

>>21645336
That sounds like a lot of worth for a Whopper but I get it, some people just enjoy finding these loopholes. I knew a guy who ran this little game at the local supermarket that had a gas station.... he would buy $100 Visa gift cards using his store card to get points, which would then entitle him to a gas discount, and then he would buy lots of cheap gas using the gift cards themselves. Rinse and repeat until he ran out of jerry cans.

>>21642552
Rent fucking free

>>21640811
Subway was never cheap.

>>21640642 (OP)
The one I went to back in the day had daily discount sandwiches, so I would always get that one. I got to taste the entire menu and save money, pretty sweet deal desu

>>21646530
Not really. I could've just used a credit card but I wanted to get dem pointz, nyamean.

>>21640642 (OP)
Pass.

what happened to the $5 footlongs?

>>21648431
until we seize the means of the production anon we will pay what they want us to

>>21648431
Obviously, inflation but all the frivolous fucking lawsuits against them probably aren't helping push prices down.
No, they're not made of yoga mats in the same way Coca Cola is not made of Raid insecticide. Dumb lawsuit.
No, a quarter of an inch short on your sandwich is not the company purposefully trying to fuck you. Soft, shitty bread, like the shitty shit Shitway sell at you, sometimes shrinks as it cools and can be unpredictable to get exact sizes every time. Dumb lawsuit.
And… well, I can't actually remember others but those two lawsuits are plenty dumb.
And if it isn't obvious, I don't even fucking like Shitway. It's shit. It's one of the worst chains on the fucking planet. So no, I'm not a shill. Fuck Shitway.

>>21648433
>we will pay what they want us to
It's not like you have to buy Shitway under penalty of death, retard. You have two very simple options: willingly pay too much for the world's shittiest sandwich or just fucking don't.

>>21648442
you sound retarded. dont call other people retards.

>>21648449
>no u
lmao
Great rebuttal, ya dingus.

>>21646474
cute butt on that high schooler

It seems that half of the /ck/ catalog is some troll saying a mediocre food is the best thing ever. Is that really what you do for a hobby?

>>21640642 (OP)
Went for the first time in years a couple days ago
$14 for a basic footlong is fucking insane
Never going back

>>21643807
Laid it on too thick with the anime post alongside the retarded comment. I'm surprised you even got two people to bite.

>>21645346
Tried Jersey Mike's once, years ago. It was a Pastrami Reuben. The sandwich looked like it had been soaked in oil and was soggy. No thank you

>>21642213
The daily meal deal (6", 2 cookies, 20oz) I got last week ran me $7.41 final price. Sub I got only had 3 meatballs on it instead of the standard 4, so they definitely Jewing people for meal days.

Usually I'm grabbing a double meat wrap, and that meal is like $12-16 (dm wrap, 2 cookies, 32oz). More food, less shitty bread. Less chance of getting jewed out of food.

Walmart carries full size subs, no veg, for like ~$5.50 depending on the type. Just bread meat and cheese though. It is equivalent to subway quality though, sometimes even a bit better since you can sift through the options for proper bread (instead of what the brown employee fucks you with).

Wegmans has a 6" loaded hoagie for $11, but it uses proper ingredients and god damn does it taste good. Even comes with condiment packets. Bread is also highly superior.

>>21642366
Nah, they won't be cheaper, just better quality.

>>21640642 (OP)
just buy some ingredients you like and put them in your fridge

>>21643807
>A fresh superior sandwich beyond one you can normally make yourself at home.
No. You can make a cold cut sandwich at home that is massively superior to anything the browns at subway will make for you any day of the week from any grocery in America. Subway is corner cut bottom of the barrel slop. The bread is kinda shit. Their pickles are sour and bleh. The tomatoes are not even ripe some times. I've seen brown in the lettuce shreds a few times. You will have a far more enjoyable sandwich experience made from grocery ingredients than Slopway.

The only benefit a subway has is if you want a hot sandwich on the go (and they had to steal toasting from quiznos). THAT is hard to do when you make shit at home. No one can crock pot some meatballs and sauce on the go, or griddle up some steak bits, so Subway can beat you there because a reheated meatball is gonna be soggy.

But if you made your own meatball with frozen meatballs and some jarred/canned sauce? Vastly superior to Subway. Their shit is so corner cut FROZEN FOOD is better.

And you can bake your own sub bread at home. Just need that little tray liner Subway uses (they sell em online). So even if the market doesn't sell that shit, you can bake it yourself. And they last like 4-5 days too. Just don't cut into them till ready to make.

>>21644127
Subway is properly rated. All fast food sub shops are hot garbage, Subway does reign king of fast food subs. But they are corner cut goyslop using the cheapest of cheap shit to make 'em. You can easily beat them with home made and restaurant sandwiches where they cut corners less.

>>21648431
Lmao. Might as well make your own sub. It takes 5 minutes to do so. It's not a fucking burger to cook.

>be me, first time trying to get subway that wasn't catering food for a work event
>go in and ask for a chicken club shown on their menu
>what kind of meat do you want?
>tell them "salami, I just want a normal club man" thinking they're joking and just asking out of habit
>they put salami and some other random cold cuts, I think ham and pepperoni, on the bread then proceed to ask what else I want for vegetables
>as politely as i can at this point I ask if they know what a club is
>no answer given just asked what else I want on the sandwich
>I walk out and never go back
This happened a few years ago and I still think about it sometimes. I just wanted a fucking club.

>>21644296
This thread is still up? Well then, you, my frugal fratello, might appreciate this:
Saturday mornings is when we do our shopping and my wife got an unlimited use $1 off digital coupon for SoftSoap in her Just4U. SoftSoap is currently "on sale" for $1.19 (it's 97¢ at Walmart) per 7.5oz bottle. So we grabbed every one they had on the shelf and she took it to the checkout. 27 bottles, different scents and varieties, for $5.13, a savings of about 84%. We also grabbed two 2-packs of pretzel bun "mini" sandwiches (one is enough for a meal, imo; they were a pack of bacon, cheddar and turkey sandwiches and a pack of ham and swiss ones), two bottles of Starbucks mocha and two bags of Miss Vicky's chips for $3.80 using my Just4U (similar sandwich shenanigans as I laid out in >>21645421 + unlimited use coupons for free Pepsi drink and free Lay's chips with purchase of a sandwich; somehow, Starbucks and Miss Vicky's count as Pepsi and Lay's).
The rest of our purchases are less exciting. Spinach for $1.49/lb. Shrimp for an average of about $3.82/lb using the Fav4 deal (turns out, this is regional but every Acme and Safeway in my area has a fridge where any 4 packs of meat and seafood, regardless of weight, will cost only $20; it's not clearance because they have a section for that, too, and most of the "deals" in that fridge are shit but I saw shrimp and laser-focused on the seabugs, grabbing the four heaviest packs, average about 1.31lbs each). Arm and Hammer detergent for 99¢. Some brand of lychee soda I've never seen before $2/6pk. 4pk of muffins for $2.49. Bread for a dollar. etc etc etc
Good deals but not exciting ones.
I think that they really don't like us at this store lmao
>>21653690
Bro, same, except with the Reuben. We got a coupon in the paper for half price Reuben subs. It was the second and last time I ever went to Subway but unlike you, I stuck it out and got my shitty sandwiches. Never the fuck again.

>>21640642 (OP)
skubway is my guilty pleasure. my town is very small and isolated and I am very grateful that we have a subway here because every other places is bar food or the shitty Dairy Queen. I went there on Friday and got
>footlong italian herb and cheese
>tuna
>bacon
>american cheese
>lettuce, onions, olives, jalapenos, pickles, honey mustard, salt and pep
toasted of course. all for $10.50. everything is expensive these days but for what amounts for me to two meals that's a good deal.

>>21646548
why dont you make it much easier for us to ignore you?