Comments on: Subway’s muddled menu

By: honeybeecooksjackfruit

honeybeecooksjackfruit — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:03:22 +0000

Michael, michael, I could not agree with you more! I have this same gripe each and every time I go into a Subway. And then they look at you like you are a jerk when you do ask for more cucumbers. Do they have a brain?

Maybe we should complain to the company!

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:09:13 +0000

I have personally never, ever even seen the Veggie Max offered in any Subway I’ve visited here in New Mexico. I’m going to ask the manager of the one I patronize at work- it’s located in part of a hospital here.
BUT, my bigger gripe is about the Veggie Delite sandwich and I wonder if a few of you have had a similar experience and will spread the word.
First of all, the Veggie Delite is ALL veggies, so you’d think that they would give you more- maybe even twice the veggies, right? Everytime I go, they give me the same amount of veggies as they pile on top of the meat!! I feel as if I’m being ripped off every time I order this sandwich!

For $3.50 I could get expensive meat with my veggies OR the veggie delite! Same price, same amt of veggies.

It makes no sense and I feel like a mooch to have to keep asking, “can I have a few more tomatoes . . .umm, a few more cucumbers please? just to get a decent sandwich that doesn’t fold closed like a book!!!

Anyone else have the same experience? Where can we complain, because it seems to be a Subway-wide problem to me.

By: Kath

Kath — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:12:54 +0000

This is a very information (and at times hilarious) thread! I love the veggie patty and get it once every week or two loaded with veggies (no lettuce). Question for those who mention the other chains carrying veggie burgers..I’m always suspicious that the veggie burger is cooked on the same griddle as the meat, thus soaking up the nasty juices. Is that an unreasonable fear?

Kath

By: Ken Greer

Ken Greer — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:28:32 +0000

Here’s a scan of a letter I received from Subway with their GardenBurger and VegiMax ingredients. Vegetarian, but neither is vegan

http://www.veggieconnection.com/news/subway-gardenburger-and-vegimax-ingredients.asp

By: katlin

katlin — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:25:42 +0000

Hmm, I like subway a lot. Haha. I’ve been a vegetarian for well over 10 years and I go in there a lot, and get the veggie delight. Everytime I go in there they are pretty dead, so they get a new pair of gloves. Its soo hard to find fast food chains that offer vegetarian options, meat-eaters don’t understand. Mcdonalds is a vegetarian’s nightmare, everything contains meat products, even their fries and hashbrowns.
Burger king has the veggie burger which is pretty good.
I would much rather go to quiznos though, pay a couple dollars more and get a much better veggie sandwitch. Gauc and all. :D

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:55:17 +0000

I HATE SUBWAY! I will never go in their again. Twice they made me a veggie sandwich without changing their gloves having made a meat sandwich before me. Why should I have to tell them to change their gloves to avoid meat juice on my food.

SUBWAY – YOU ARE A BIG PILL OF POO!

grrrrrrrrrr (Teawhench)

I guess if you are seriously orthodox Jew, you might have deep objections with your roast beef being handled by the same gloves that handled ham or cheese.

But BIGOTRY certainly includes expecting the whole world (including every minimum wage sandwhich artiste) to read your mind on how orthodox you are in your particular belief system and comply.

PILL[sic] OF POO? (What is this, kindergarten?)

But I have a solution that respects my rights (becuase why should I be stiffed with the cost of something my belief system doesn’t require) and various ORTHODOX minorities – initiate a 25 cents per requested glove charge.

That way, you are particulary demanding, you can have your bread sliced with one set of gloves, your cold cuts inserted with another, two more sets of gloves so your lettuce doesn’t get handled with the same gloves that came into contact with tomatoes, ect., in absurdum.

Are Teawhench, et.al, sensitive a cornivore’s possible preference (depending on his degree of orthodoxy) not to have his meat handled (ewwwwwwwwwwwww!) by gloves that came into contact with this weird veggie concoction?

P.S. Contribute the charge to a tip fund for Subway employs. Then you would get a big smile… “Can I take your order? And how many times would you like me to change my gloves today?”
Somehow, I don’t think Teawhench has ever left anything in any tip jar (anywhere)

By: Maribel

Maribel — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:31:31 +0000

I’m sorry, I meant blog 48.

By: Maribel

Maribel — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:30:17 +0000

Kate, if you read blog 49, it gives ingredients for the veggiemax. I see no animal products there. However, the gardenburger does. Maybe that’s what your store sells.

By: Vegan Subway Menu

Vegan Subway Menu — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:43:11 +0000

I would love to see them offer fake (vegan) meats – they would be a great venue to bring veganism to the public.

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:28:38 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Wonderful blog you’ve got here. Was searching for good vegetarian food in Subway when I stumbled across yours. Was pleasantly surprised and heartened to see this blog. Nice work. I’m an Indian and have been a vegetarian all my life. I used to have eggs some time when I was a child, but once I came of age and knew the good from the bad, I have stopped eating even items like cakes that contain eggs. I do consume milk though. I am not sure if you have had Indian food, but of all the cuisines in the world I have come across, I realized Indian food offers the most vegetarian dishes, so in case you haven’t tried, I’d really suggest you to try. Here’s a useful link – http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/OtherInfo/Subway.htm for Subway, it also has general info for different restaurants.
Keep it going! Let’s turn the world. Vegetarianism Rocks!

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:32:56 +0000

Got a response from Subway re: veggie patty nutritional information.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:39:06 +0000

The veggiemax patties are vegitarian but not vegan, they contain milk and egg. I work there an have read the ingredients.

By: subman

subman — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:29:04 +0000

I spoke to a guy on long island and he happened to own a Subway. He actually took my email address and emailed me the ingredients. They were the same as “Vegan flan” posted. Although I live in Selden NY about a half hour away—when I get a craving I drive all the way to his place in Center Moriches, because I know he will always have them ( his wife is a vegetarian and it’s her favorite sub.) Plus he says people know that he carries them now so he says he sells more veggie maxes than meatball subs.

By: Candace

Candace — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:56:10 +0000

After reading this blog I am very saddened by subway, and many other companies choice to offer veggie options which are not vegan. Although I was vegetarian for a few years before becoming vegan, mainly because I became severly lactose intolerant, I think that over the last 10 years or so there have been many new options available at various restaurant’s.

I am still astonished by posts from people such as Lexy and others above which purposefully ridicule others just because they are different. But we have to remember to be accepting of people who choose to eat meat, if we want the same respect back from them. If not are we any better than them? Although I am all for people learning where their meat comes from and being informed consumers.

I do want to say thank you for making this site, I was unsure about the veggie patties at subway and for months kept checking their website and was never really sure why they didn’t post the nutritional information. I really wish someone would open in a chain of vegan/vegetarian fast food restaurant’s. Nowadays so many people have dietary restrictions ranging from allergies to religious beliefs, to health concerns, that companies should be required by law to have on hand all ingredient and nutritional information.

By: LEXY

LEXY — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:44 +0000

Try as you may to be a Vegan but somehow you will get a little meat on that sandwhich. I mean it’s not like they change gloves everytime they make a sandwich. So ENJOY!!