Friday, June 27, 2008

Why I hate Subway

Today I bought my lunch at Subway, which (besides pizza) is the only food (I use that term loosely) offered by UW during the summer. It's open from about 11 am to 1pm or something ridiculous like that. I've had about zero positive experiences at subway, and have encountered the following absurd events.

1) (today) - A regular 6" sub costs $4.59. I wanted turkey so I ordered a turkey sandwich; there was a picture of a sandwich with turkey with those little peppers around the outside, so I got that. When it was time to pay, my bill came to $7.34. Um, when did Washington state up its sales tax to 60% ? So I was like "WTF lady" and the Subway lady pointed out that I ordered the peppercorn turkey sandwich which is more. $2.16 more in fact. For a bit of fucking pepper on the turkey. I complained and she gave a blank stare, then pointed out again that my sandwich costs $6.whatever plus tax. Fuck you, Subway.

of course this reminded me of the following ridiculousness

2 ) a few months ago I went to Quizno's (a step up from Subway!) I wanted a sandwich with turkey, bacon, and swiss cheese. I asked if I could have one, and the answer was.. "No". "No?" I asked? "No, that's not on the menu. You can't have that". Actually they offered to give me that sandwich for the same price as the turkey bacon avocado ranch sandwich. I didn't want to pay for avocado that I wasn't getting, so I agreed to the whole sandwich + guac. It tasted like rotten garbage.

3) several years ago (I still remember this crap) - I ordered a cheesesteak sandwich at Subway; the gentleman behind the counter proceeded to use his little tweezers to put some "steak" onto a paper plate. He then put that on a miniature lab scale, weighed it, realized that he gave me about six grams too much, and used the tweezers to take one fiber of meat off of my portion and put it back into the bin. The sandwich ended up tasting like shit anyway.