The Fast Food Thread

joeboo_sl said:

The bad part is that subway only has like 2 or 3 subs that are $5 anymore.

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I was pretty disappointed when they changed the $5 footlong deal. When I was working on different jobsites a lot of the time Subway would be the closest thing that wasn't super greasy. After a while pretty much everyone I worked with went from going to Subway once or twice a week in some areas, to almost never.

Eyashusa_sl said:

I've come to absolutely loathe Subway. I'd rather pay a couple extra bucks for Jimmy Johns, Potbelly, Jersey Mike's, or anything really.

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Sandwiches (sub and deli) are one of the items I have a hard time liking in the fast food world. Same with Quiznos/Schlotzskys etc. Either its poor quality, overpriced, or both. At least with someplace like Quiznos it's decent, but I'd prefer something decent like Subway had with the $5 dollar footlong deals (when they had good options). Local places like Planet Sub/Yellow Sub I'll hit up long before the chains if I can help it, and I think I was ruined on subs and pizza having lived in Buffalo. Almost every pizza place has pizzaandwingsandsubs, and the pure sandwich places like Jim's Steakout just made chains worthless (even though Jim's is a local chain but whatever). I imagine a lot of places are like that, so it amazes me how widespread some of these places are.

And yeah, Subway's "hot subs" are an abomination. Some of their cold subs are edible, but I think they felt like they had to add hot options because of competition that put out better subs and had actually good hot sandwiches. I guess with their business model and how their stores are designed, it would be difficult (but not impossible) to put some sort of actual grill in their stores. But microwaves, I mean wtf - who at Subway thought that was a good idea? I'd eat Quiktrip taquitos or microwaved Bomb Burritos before I'd eat a hot Subway sub.

Alex_sl said:

I've never been to Togo's. There is one in manageable lunch time distance from the office. How does it hold up compared to Potbelly? The hot peppers you can get on a sandwich at Potbelly are $$$.

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I have been going to Togo's for over 20 years, and they are far and away better than Subway, but that's not saying much. I have never heard of Potbelly so I'm assuming there isn't one here (Sacramento), which doesn't give me much to compare between the two, but I would put Togo's as about the best "fast food" sandwich you can get. To be clear, I don't count delis as really the same thing (Mr. Pickles is popular around here, not sure if you'd have heard of it), even though it is very similar. Hard to explain, but just like I wouldn't ever consider Subway as the same as a deli even though they all just put shit on bread for you. So if Potbelly is what I would consider a deli, Togo's probably isn't any better, but it is far and away better than Subway.

If you happen to have a Beach House Deli around, those are the fucking bomb. They always loaded the sandwich up so high that you knew you were going to take half of it home before you even started. And the one near where I used to live only hired hot high school girls. Probably a good thing I don't live near that one anymore, I'd be broke from buying sandwiches 3 times a day.