A few months back, I was in a Subway and saw that they had breakfast items on the menu. I thought that was interesting because I had never seen that before, but I just figured they had been serving breakfast for a while and didn’t think anything of it. Apparently, I should have thought something of it because within the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen several articles out there, including this one, that say that Subway is rolling out their breakfast menu nationally on April 5th. So, I guess Indianapolis is a test market for foods yet again. Odd.
Anyway, being the dedicated food blogger that I am, I was compelled to try this out and here are my results.
What I Got: Western Omelet Sandwich Combo (comes with coffee) for $2.50 and the Black Forest Ham Omelet Sandwich for $3.00
First up was the Western Omelet Sandwich. Subway offers you the opportunity to have the sandwich served on an english muffin, flatbread or their traditional sub rolls. Since I at least wanted to pretend I was eating something similar to breakfast, I chose to get mine on an english muffin. The sandwich does include egg omelet and you can get the “omelet” as an egg white omelet or a traditional omelet (using the whole egg). I chose to be semi-healthy and get the egg white omelet. Also included on the sandwich was their traditional black forest ham, green peppers, red onions, your choice of cheese (I chose pepper jack) and your option of the other traditional Subway vegetable options (I added a couple slices of tomato).
Basically, just like all Subway sandwiches, they give you the base of the food item and then you build this yourself. As far as taste was concerned, my english muffin was slightly stale but the eggs were actually not that bad compared to my expecations. I fully expected them to be rubbery since the SANDWICH ARTIST (so stupid, Subway) just pulled pre-made “omelets” out of a warmer box and threw it onto my muffin but they were somewhat soft and fluffy instead. Even though I was surprised that the eggs were not awful, they were also not good either. The melted cheese (they place the muffin in the toaster prior to serving it to you) was nice but everything else on this sucked.
Next up was the Black Forest Ham & Cheese. Since I wanted to try for some variety, I got this one on flatbread. Also included on the sandwich was the egg white omelet and I elected to have them add tomato and banana peppers as well.
For this one, I would classify this as an epic failure. The only thing that made this even remotely resemble breakfast was that it had the omelet on it. Everything else was just a normal Subway sandwich on a piece of flatbread. Boring, stupid, tasteless, etc. I’m not going to waste any more time describing this one because it isn’t worth it.
Would I Buy It Again? No way. Unlike WIBIA, I generally like Subway and am not biased against it, but I don’t know why they felt the need to get involved in the breakfast battle with all the fast food joints. They should seriously re-consider either getting out of the breakfast business by April 6th or completely re-tool what they are offering because this was stuff was just bad. Not only that, but it was overpriced as well. If you really want fast food breakfast, stick with McDonald’s, Burger King or Hardee’s where you can get more variety and also better value.
Oh yeah, one more quick note. Subway serves Seattle’s Best coffee in their restaurants. It was the first time I’ve had Seattle’s Best coffee and it was just awful. I have had gas station coffee at Village Pantry or Circle K that was light years better than this.
This meal actually ruined my next few hours because I couldn’t get the taste of the coffee or the crappy Subway breakfast out of my mouth.
-IndianapolisEater
