I don't know why I just went there. The dude in front of me in line was practicing his martial arts. (Seriously.) It smells like Subway, that not-really-yeasty-but-still-kind-of-bready smell. I don't like that smell.
My sub. Um, did I just actually eat something, aside from the bag of Sun Chips? (Why are Sun Chips "better for you" than regular chips? I mean, yes, they're tasty, featuring both salt and "autolyzed yeast extract" ~ MSG, but still...)
Um, I think it had turkey in it, and some random mayonnaise-chipotle-y sauce. I guess it's mildly fusion-tastic to have that on the parmesan-oregano bread, but I've seen someone else get a chicken teriyaki sub there with similar saucing and bread, so I'm a piker by comparison.
Meh.
I had: a turkey sub with a bag of chips.
I paid: $5.90; it was the $4 sub-of-the-day, which means I would've paid just $4.20 if that'd been all I got, thanks to the lower rate of tax on such purchases. I'm not sure the chips were worth that much more...though they were more flavourful than my sandwich.
Verdict:
Speed: fast. Sensible workflow. Why are all of the other sandwich shops so bad at this?! Is it intellectual property of Subway?
Quality: meh. Yes, this is the standard vote here already. Welcome to the U Plaza.
Value: I guess it's okay? I mean, I already have largely forgotten the sub existed. As fleeting moments go, it was pretty damn ephemeral. But it was cheap.
Would go back: I haven't been to a Subway outside an airport or roadside rest stop in years, and I can't see why I would change that.
HAHAHA, I love that aside about the $4 limit on provincial taxes. My dad is actually one of the authors of the original piece of legislation, which came about in the early to mid-80s. (He was a co-op student at the time.) Needless to say, my brothers and I love to rip on him for not including some kind of inflation clause, as our buying power at $4 is undoubtedly less than it would have been in the 80s!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I didn't grow up here, so I didn't even know that rule existed until the HST came in (it was, for a while, looking like it'd go away then).
ReplyDeleteThe $100,000-earners list has the same property: it came into effect to show people what "senior managers" at public institutions were paid...and now includes most Waterloo profs.