Regarding breakfast at Subway, who here cooks up a dozen eggs on a Saturday morning when you have more time, wraps each one of them separately, throws them in the freezer, then pulls one out each day for the next 12, slaps it on an English muffin, nukes it, and calls that breakfast?

That’s what Subway apparently does. Except they probably cook a few thousand egg patties every day, I guess at a precooked egg patty factory, then ships them out on precooked egg patty delivery trucks to Subway locations.

And I wonder how long a Subway precooked egg patty can go before being eaten, if kept frozen of course. A week? A month? A year? I doubt they’re made of 100% eggs. They gotta add stuff to it for industrial processing, handling, shipping, and preservation.

You wouldn’t cook up a dozen eggs, 50, 100, or a thousand at one time so you don’t have to bother doing so again for the next week/month/year, do you? So why would anyone go to Subway to get the same?

And that food poisoning deal in Illinois last year makes me wonder how long Subway keeps their ‘fresh’ veggies on hand. All those salmonella cases happened over almost a month-long period. So what was the deal, did all those Subway locations in all those different counties repeatedly get batch after batch after batch of salmonella-tainted produce delivered to them over that period, or did they each get one big batch of bad produce at the beginning and keep selling it, weeks after the first case of food poisoning surfaced? And would have kept selling it if not for the food poisoning.

Gees, how long do you keep produce in your frig at home? And what’s the first thing you do with produce such as lettuce and tomatoes when you get home from the supermarket, shred or slice it ALL up at one time so you don’t have to bother doing it again till you run out? A better question is how long Subway keeps theirs. At home you’d throw something out at the first sign of it being bad, but you know any business would go broke if they did the same. The same goes even more so for luncheon meats. First sign or whiff of it being bad at home you toss it out.

The outright food poisoning episodes grabs everyone’s attention but when I think of all that precooked, preshredded, and presliced stuff Subway sells, which is everything they do offer in between two pieces of bread, besides shivering I wonder it there’s a link somehow to IBS which is in the news so often. Specifically, I wonder if repeatedly eating something that’s not bad enough to give you outright food poisoning but often does jangle your stomach and intestines results in a cumulative inflammatory response over a period of months or years. Then if that hits, IBS, you wonder, gee, where did that come from? If you have something with a whole bunch of precooked, preshredded, and presliced stuff (meats, cheeses, ‘fresh’ veggies), would you even be able to tell by taste or smell that any one of those things was bad, particularly if doused with some dressing, which itself sits in an uncapped plastic squeeze bottle on the Subway counter? I keep all my salad dressings in the frig, and take them out only long enough to use then put back. Same with olive oil, keep it in a cool dark cupboard, and put it back after use.

On top of all that, what you do get at Subway costs about 3 times what you could make real-world fresh at home. Between the frozen precooked egg patties, how long the preshredded and presliced ‘fresh’ veggies and meats may be kept on hand, and the extra cost over what you can make better at home, you have to be stuck in a pit of ignorance or self-loathing to think a Subway breakfast or sub is a good idea. But hey, I was there too, in the ignorance pit regarding Subway subs. And climbed out rather than descend deeper into the self-loathing section!!!

I was truly disappointed. I had the steak and cheese on a bagel, I should have know better when I wanted an onion bagel and he said we only have plain, the steak was I guess the crumbles they use on regular sandwiches and the hashbrows, if you can call them that, 3 hard microwaved pieces of potato. I can guarantee you I’ll never eat their breakfast again, they should just stick to what they know, sub sandwiches!!!!

A truly waste of money.

The only thing I liked was the style of coffee cups they used. The coffee was horrible and cold