Subway don’t sell bread

[Esceptico]

Read this morning of a judgement in an Irish VAT case. Subway were claiming that their sandwiches should count as a staple food and therefore should be zero-rated. Court found that because the sugar to flour ration is 1 to 9 (ie 10% sugar by weight) they count as confectionary. No wonder there are so many obese people if even bread contains 10% sugar!

[Pesty]

Destroy an economy because of something most people don’t even know they have. More chance of dying skiing than catching Covid if you are healthy and 60

But companies literally put poison in food to make you buy more just like the scummy heroin pusher at the end of the street and nobody bats an eye.

How many will die of heart failure because of all this st companies cynically put in their “ food”

[markcoznottz]

Is it HFCS?

[XCP]

Pesty said:

Destroy an economy because of something most people don’t even know they have. More chance of dying skiing than catching Covid if you are healthy and 60

But companies literally put poison in food to make you buy more just like the scummy heroin pusher at the end of the street and nobody bats an eye.

How many will die of heart failure because of all this st companies cynically put in their “ food”

That's strangely reassuring as the chance of me dying skiing is precisely zero.

[Esceptico]

markcoznottz said:

Is it HFCS?

Newspaper article didn’t say. Wouldn’t surprise me - especially in the US.

[ScotHill]

markcoznottz said:

Is it HFCS?

Not according to the Subway website.

[Mr Whippy]

Anyone who ever ate a subway should know it tastes like sweets.

Diabetes inducing sandwiches.

[Don Roque]

Subway sandwiches are utter crap. Overpriced, soggy ste. The people of the UK and Ireland have a bizarre obsession with this crap food.

[Esceptico]

Don Roque said:

Subway sandwiches are utter crap. Overpriced, soggy ste. The people of the UK and Ireland have a bizarre obsession with this crap food.

I think it mentioned in the article that Subway is in 110 countries so we don’t seem to be alone with the obsession. Sticking sugar in things seems to be a winning formula for getting people to like crap quality food.

[NapierDeltic]

Pesty said:

Destroy an economy because of something most people don’t even know they have. More chance of dying skiing than catching Covid if you are healthy and 60

But companies literally put poison in food to make you buy more just like the scummy heroin pusher at the end of the street and nobody bats an eye.

How many will die of heart failure because of all this st companies cynically put in their “ food”

Parklife!

[anonymous-user]

It is the same with burger buns, loaded with sugar so they caramelise quickly when toasted. Stops the sauces soaking into the bun (too quickly).

[Swervin_Mervin]

It's how the Americans make their bread so shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that's ever been over there. It's either sweet or sourdough, IME, with no inbetween.

[anonymous-user]

It's a bit like Jaffa Cakes are really cakes, not biscuits, even though they're like biscuits. But they are soft and go hard, unlike a biscuit that does the opposite.

[Red 4]

Argleton said:

It's a bit like Jaffa Cakes are really cakes, not biscuits, even though they're like biscuits. But they are soft and go hard, unlike a biscuit that does the opposite.

I thought Jaffa Cakes were a fruit ? No ? Bugger.

[dandarez]

In the 50s, 60s, 70s nobody was obese. But we ate sugar. My gran would demolish a bowl of sugar lumps on the table, she wasn't fat. She died at 90 odd. We as kids had 'Corona' (nah, not the virus! The drink!) and drank loads of it, delivered to the door by crate weekly. But we had proper food as well, the sort of food many are scared of today, like red meat, dripping, lard, fat (my god, the people who fear that word today, yet the irony, they get fat!), double cream, full fat milk on the doorstep daily - no low fat crap and importantly no 'fast food' (well, it had just started with McLibels in the mid 70s, but they didn't get a proper hold till the 80s on).
Another decade and then Subway appeared on these shores in 1996. Never been in one in my life, ever. Pap buns and crap rolls - if I want a roll I'll make it from proper bread. Sugar, again, is fine if it's unrefined (ie: 'real' sugar) and in moderation, I've a sweet tooth. Trouble is today they put it in tons of refined crap, or worse, an artificial sweetener (why the f would you put something artificial down your gullet? No idea, but millions do!

Back to Subway in the UK, the first was opened in Brighton in 1996 - now the UK’s largest High Street fast-food chain.

And while the High Street was showing signs of collapsing Subway was looking to open another 500 stores this year (prior covid) bringing its total to 3,000 in the UK + Ireland – in front of its two main competitors; McDonald’s and Greggs. To feed the obese!

As for being healthy look at who teamed up with them during the last 11 yrs. You couldn't make this st up.

Edited by dandarez on Thursday 1st October 23:20

[Cudd Wudd]

Red 4 said:

I thought Jaffa Cakes were a fruit ? No ? Bugger.

I’ve been counting these and foam bananas as 2 of my 5 a day for years! Back down to one it is then.

[Red 4]

Cudd Wudd said:

Red 4 said:

I thought Jaffa Cakes were a fruit ? No ? Bugger.

I’ve been counting these and foam bananas as 2 of my 5 a day for years! Back down to one it is then.

Just substitute the Jaffa cakes for at least 2 packets of pear drops per day. You need to replace that lost vitamin C.

[untakenname]

The best thing about Subway was the smell, could smell it 100 meters before you reached the door.
Always wondered if it was the extraction system specifically designed to vent for the furthest distance or if it was an artificial scent they pumped out at intervals before the shop.

Think the council's/environmental health clamped down as I haven't noticed the smell for a few years now.

[anonymous-user]

When i moved to the USA in the early 90's for a while, i couldn't believe how much sugar was in everything. Bread and baked beans were mental. I used to go to the British Import store to buy a few staples. Cost a bloody fortune.

Best laugh was when i was in Panama City Beach for spring break and was sick of drinking crappy USA beer, which had a 2% max alcohol content by law. So we went down the Import store and bought a ton of UK beer, got back to the hotel to find it was specially brewed for Florida 2% law, the bds.

[anonymous-user]

Red 4 said:

Argleton said:

It's a bit like Jaffa Cakes are really cakes, not biscuits, even though they're like biscuits. But they are soft and go hard, unlike a biscuit that does the opposite.

I thought Jaffa Cakes were a fruit ? No ? Bugger.

Fruit in them.