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What are you on about? You can get a perfectly health meal at subway for $5. Just get a turkey club with vegetables or whatever. If you think Subway is garba

What are you on about? You can get a perfectly health meal at subway for $5. Just get a turkey club with vegetables or whatever. If you think Subway is garbage food, the problem is not Subway, the problem is that you're a rich food snob.

rsynnott 6y ago
A couple of months ago, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that Subway's 'bread' wasn't bread (the reason this went to court was that it's important for setting a VAT rate), due to containing too much added sugar. In Ireland (and, as far as I know, most places in Europe) it would not be normal for bread to contain added sugar _at all_. So, yeah, a sandwich made with what is legally cake seems fairly garbage (though, I do see the problem in that it seems to be hard to get normal bread cheaply in the US). This does point to a potential solution, though. As I understand it, the determination was only directly relevant to taxation. However, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to imagine that a country could take the stance that advertising sandwiches made with non-bread as sandwiches wasn’t permissible. That might be enough of a marketing problem for Subway that they’d just drop the sugar.
- bpodgursky 6y ago
  It has like 3-5 grams of sugar in a loaf. A Coke is 60. Somehow, I think you will survive. And if you don't like it, get a wrap instead. It's bread. Would I get it without sugar? Sure. Is it a real problem? No.
  - rsynnott 6y ago
    It all adds up. Okay, to acknowledge my biases, I’m coming at this from a cultural perspective of being vaguely disgusted by sugary bread, but... why is it there? It contributes to a general saturation of sugar in American food.
jessaustin 6y ago
A) Subway is not garbage, but it's neither good nor good for you. If you get rid of the loaves of sugar and nitrites, you're left with a small amount of salad, which shouldn't cost $5. B) I typically bring my lunch from home, and that costs less than $5. [EDIT:] It's not too late to edit out the baseless "rich snob" accusation... you're calling me "rich" and you regularly waste $5 on terrible unethical food.
- bpodgursky 6y ago
  You're dismissing perfectly reasonable and macronutritionally balanced food as "loaves of sugar and nitrites" (I guess you don't like meat either?). See above, the 3-5g sugar content is meaningless. You should consider that you might be a food snob.

rsynnott 6y ago

A couple of months ago, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that Subway's 'bread' wasn't bread (the reason this went to court was that it's important for setting a VAT rate), due to containing too much added sugar. In Ireland (and, as far as I know, most places in Europe) it would not be normal for bread to contain added sugar _at all_. So, yeah, a sandwich made with what is legally cake seems fairly garbage (though, I do see the problem in that it seems to be hard to get normal bread cheaply in the US). This does point to a potential solution, though. As I understand it, the determination was only directly relevant to taxation. However, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to imagine that a country could take the stance that advertising sandwiches made with non-bread as sandwiches wasn’t permissible. That might be enough of a marketing problem for Subway that they’d just drop the sugar.

bpodgursky 6y ago
It has like 3-5 grams of sugar in a loaf. A Coke is 60. Somehow, I think you will survive. And if you don't like it, get a wrap instead. It's bread. Would I get it without sugar? Sure. Is it a real problem? No.
- rsynnott 6y ago
  It all adds up. Okay, to acknowledge my biases, I’m coming at this from a cultural perspective of being vaguely disgusted by sugary bread, but... why is it there? It contributes to a general saturation of sugar in American food.

jessaustin 6y ago

A) Subway is not garbage, but it's neither good nor good for you. If you get rid of the loaves of sugar and nitrites, you're left with a small amount of salad, which shouldn't cost $5. B) I typically bring my lunch from home, and that costs less than $5. [EDIT:] It's not too late to edit out the baseless "rich snob" accusation... you're calling me "rich" and you regularly waste $5 on terrible unethical food.

bpodgursky 6y ago
You're dismissing perfectly reasonable and macronutritionally balanced food as "loaves of sugar and nitrites" (I guess you don't like meat either?). See above, the 3-5g sugar content is meaningless. You should consider that you might be a food snob.