Five Dollar Footlong, all month long

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Aw Italian BMT and Tuna are only $5 this month?? It's too bad the closest Subway is like 20 minutes away these days

Ten in my ZIP code.  Count 'em, ten.  One is only about an 800-meter walk from my crib.

For the uninitiated, here's some info:  http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/default.aspx

I usually get the Tuna.  I have them put copious amounts of mayonnaise on both sides of the bread.  They don't like to do it since they have this conveyor-belt system set up and the mayonnaise is at the end.  They're a bit like the Soup Nazi in that regard, but I always make 'em put the mayonnaise on the bread.  Then I have them throw down the tuna and then put provolone cheese on top of that.  Then I have them put peperoncinos, pickles, olives, tomato, purple onion, jalapeños, a few more jalapeños, okay can I get a few more jalapeños.  Now, can you dribble some mustard, oil, and vinegar over the top and a little hot sauce?  Thanks.  Do you want that toasted?  Hell, no.  Would you like to make it a meal?  No, just the sandwich, thankyou.

My son likes the chicken teriyaki, and he likes his toasted.  Also, he has an aversion to cheese.  I'd say we eat at Subway more than all the other fast food restaurants combined.  Not that we eat fast food often, maybe once a month, but in any given year that probably amounts to six times at subway and six times at all the Burger Kings, Wendy's, Carl's Jr, etc., combined.  

I'm considering having a subway footlong tonight.  I don't want FebruANY to pass by without my ordering at least one Five Dollar Footlong.

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I enjoy Subway.  I like it better than, say, Quiznos.  Of the list above, I generally get Turkey and Black Forest Ham.

I don't care for quiznos either.  

Can't comment on the pig's ear and pig liver sandwich since I haven't yet had one.  

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I usually get the Tuna.

It scares me how long the tuna has been sitting there in improper temperatures.  But with the sh**t you put on it, it's likely all the ick is offset.

hahaha.  I do like tuna.  I like the smell of it.  I like the taste of it.  I like it sauteed in butter.  I like it fried in oil.  I like big steaks of tuna on the barbeque, and I like it from a can.  I have it on sandwiches or in pasta, or even raw and wrapped in rice and seaweed and doused with sweet vinegar and sesame seeds.  I even drink the fluids when I open the can, rather than waste it by pouring it down the sink the way some folks do.  You can't really go wrong with tuna.  Anyway, I always wash my dinner down with enough ethanol to prevent any opportunistic single-celled organisms from presenting a problem. 

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Baguettes, and bâtards for that matter, don't really rock my world.  Too crunchy.  I like a bread that soaks up the juices of the sandwich, but maybe I'll give it a go.  I often see Banh Mi on the menu hereabouts, although when I'm in places where it's on the menu, I usually notice the enormous bowl of Pho Thai and Pho Xe Lua on the same menu, and I can never pass up stewed tripe with basil and cilantro and noodles and spicy chiles.  I'd estimate that I have a steaming bowl of pho at least once a week.  
  
Although I do like a crunchy sourdough bâtard when I'm having marinara sauce, and I like to rub it around in the sauce.  They get soggy if you're patient enough. 

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Pho pretty much bores me, like most Asian noodle soups.

à chacun son goût, mon gourmand.  I think I like all of them except Misoshiru, which is truly boring. 

I am intrigued by the Banh Mi.  I may wait till the next time I'm in East Asia, though, to try one.  I'm guessing that it'll actually have the pig's ear and daikon. 

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Plus, they're likely being paid minimum wage. So what's the point?

Minimum wage?!  What's the point?

You want to take a great big dump on MY thread with a comment about public policy, do you?

Fine, it's a free world.  Let's go there.  Let's assume that they're being paid minimum wage.  With minimum wage, an employee can purchase one and a half foot-long subway sandwiches per hour.  At the end of an eight-hour shift, an employee could purchase 12 foot-long subway sandwiches.  If he chooses astutely, and gets one of the really high-calorie ones like the foot-long tuna on wheat, he could feed a family of four for two days.  Not that he would have to, because most people working for minimum wage are not heads of families, but rather sons and daughters of breadwinners earning a little money to buy booze and pot.  And yes, at the end of an eight-hour shift, you can buy a decent bag of mary jane even if you're only making minimum wage, and still have enough money left over for a foot long tuna on whole wheat once the munchies kick in.

But that really isn't the point.  Nor is the fact that a government-mandated minimum wage, according to price theory, causes unemployment.  Nor is the fact that the President has asked the congress to consider raising the minimum wage.  Nor is the fact that the congress, thankfully, will probably not raise it.

These are so very far off topic.  The point is that all month long you can get foot long sandwiches, made to order, at Subway for five dollars.  That's the point.  That's the only point.  This is not a political thread.  But feel free to take a big dump on my friendly apolitical thread.

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Sbane, I've always liked pho as well, especially in the big bowl.  Occasionally I order bun ga xao or that thing with a fried egg and pork over rice, but mostly I opt for a big steaming bowl of pho.  And there's very little variation.  I've eaten at Vietnamese restaurants in Massachusetts, Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Florida, Canada, and Pennsylvania--there are four of them within a five-mile radius of my house--and it never varies.  Always the huge bowl of noodles, roast beef, beef tripe, beef balls, cilantro, and chives, served with a plate of bean sprouts, thin-sliced fresh jalapeños, fresh sweet basil on stems, and small thai chiles.  There's usually a plastic bottle of red chili hot sauce within arm's reach as well.  How can anyone not like that?

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blagohair,
Oops.  I did leave off some options.  I realized that after Boss Tweed mentioned the meatball marinara, always a popular option.  I am aware that they have a vegetarian sandwich as well.  Both of those are also on the FebruANY five dollar footlong special menu.  I apologize for the oversight.

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I can't answer the poll. It's missing meatball.

Meatball.  I can make any other type of sandwich there from home, but good luck replicating their delicious meatballs!

meatball marinara

Profuse and profound apologies, good sirs.  It was a grave oversight and the poll should never have made it past our large staff of editors before being published.  We humbly submit this erratum and include the following appendix for your approval.

It appears that we have, in addition to the explicit choices, the following:

Meatball Marinara:  5
Veggie Delite:  1

For a complete list, click here.

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And try some pho if you haven't already done so.

damn straight.   try some five dollar footlongs, too.

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I usually get subs from this local place called "Paul Bunyan Sub Shop"... they have a really good turkey club.  It's all about the bacon.. it's perfectly crisp... but no burnt overcooked taste.

Rye roll, turkey, bacon, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayonnaise, italian dressing

They have Paul Bunyan here, dude.  Well, I don't mean a sandwich joint, but the character.  I'd always grown up hearing about Paul Bunyan, what with my parents being from northern Minnesota and all, and for the five years we lived in northern Iowa he was a big draw for the kiddies.  I didn't imagine he'd made it out to the Keystone State, but not long ago I was speaking to one of the third grade teachers at the boy's school and she mentioned some stories that they'll read.  One of them involved Paul and Babe.  That's right:  Paul and his blue ox have made it to the East Coast.  How cool is that?

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Had a foot-long tuna sandwich on 9-grain wheat bread today.  Delicious.  The boy had something with chicken and bacon and my wife had the teriyaki chicken.  All footlongs.  I had noticed that the meatball sandwich is the most popular here, and I was tempted to try one today, but I just couldn't get my mind wrapped around it.  Meatballs on sandwiches just don't really sound very appealing.  Nevertheless we did buy some meatballs at the Wong Fu Market, along with some fishballs, crabballs, three kinds of mushroom, one kind of bracket fungi, some five spice powder, some napa, some bokchoy, some dry tofu, some white tofu, some shrimp, and some thin sliced beef for a big old pu pu tray for dinner tonight tonight.  mmmmm.  Also, I got a Boulard calvados 750 mL.  I haven't tried this particular brand of calvados yet, but it's 40% alcohol and it's in a bottle so it can't be too bad.

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After the Banh Mi pic I feel like we're crawling around in the gutter with Subway chatter......but if I had to, I'd go meatball.....exactly like Muon takes his with the red onion, lettuce and oregano, on the italian herb bread.

I'm sure there is a Vietnamese place in Pittsburgh. Go try one. And try some pho if you haven't already done so.

Shane, I go to a very good one here. Great pho! Cheap and awesome food! But I haven't seen banh mi. I already googled the places that have it. I will most certainly be tying one soon! 

Funny thing, I've seen it on lots of menus, but didn't even know it was a sandwich till opebo's post.  Probably it does say that in English under Banh Mi, just like it says "crispy spring roll" under Chả Giò on the menu, but I never went into a Vietnamese joint looking for a sandwich so it just didn't register. 

Oh, and the calvados is decent.  Its nose is a dry apple or cider, with a hint of earthiness (mushroom, maybe?).  The texture is smooth with none of the throaty assertiveness of Hennessey or other similarly-priced brandies.  On the sides of the mouth there's a medium acidity and in the back of the mouth it's like an almond extract.  Just a tad sweet, but not too much.  Certainly not like a cordial.  The finish is pure spiced oak and very, very long.  It's not the XO, but the VSOP.  (The XO would have cost twice as much and I wasn't ready to shell out eighty dollars.)  Anyway, I'm not disappointed.  Even the old lady likes it.  I'll drink anything, but she's not much of a boozer.

Man, that's tasty.  Somebody needs to come and take this bottle away from me before I end up too tight to make sensible posts.

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Voted tuna which is good, but I prefer the meatball marinara over the others.

That's six for the meatball.  Seven if I count tmth.  Either way, it beats out the explicit choices.  Maybe I'll have to get me one of those next tim.

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Mozzarella, Provolone, Swiss, and a few others.  I usually get provolone on my footlong tuna sandwich.  I prefer mozzarella on the sandwiches I make at home.  I find mozzarella to be the most accessible of the cheeses, don't you?

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More accesible than cheddar? My go-to sandwich cheese would be a nice sharp cheddar (which unfortunately Subway definitely does not have).

I guess for me mozzarella is the go-to cheese.  I buy a big block (~8 ounce) of it about every other week.   Once in a while, I'll get a wild hair and buy camembert, or cheddar, or munster, or brie, or swiss, or chavrie, or even crumbly white low-moisture queso fresco, if I'm buying it for a particular application, but in general mozzarella is what I keep at home for sundry purposes, including roast beef sandwiches, ham sandwiches, etc.

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I tried the meatball marinara sandwich tonight.  Italian bread, 12-inch, with grated mozarella, oregano, and a bunch of other stuff.  Not bad.  I still like the tuna sandwich better.  The meatball sub was okay, but the actual meat had that dogfood flavor, and I've never been a huge fan of dogfood-flavored meatballs, although I can respect the appeal.  Also, there were too many textural inhomogeneities for me.  In some bites I'd get a mouthful of ball, sometimes two, and sometimes none at all, just purple onion and bread and cheese.  I think that's one of the major advantages of tuna.  It gets all spread out so you get some in every bite.  It's like that cereal that promises two scoops of raisins in every box.  Also, tuna just tastes and smells like tuna, and if you leave it out under the heat lamps long enough, it tastes and smells even more like tuna with every passing minute.  Not many flavors you can say that about. 

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I had banh mi today.  This Vietnamese guy came by my office with one and said his sister was selling them to raise money for her church and he got me one.  The hoagie was long, about 12 inches with good bread, and it had the various constituent meats.  On the side there were two little bags, one with sliced fresh jalapeño, some fresh cilantro, and what he called a "pickle" but which was actually unpickled cucumber.  The other bag contained what he called "relish" which was long slivers of pickled orange root and pickled white root.  I think the orange one was carrot.  He instructed me to heat the sandwich in my toaster oven for a few minutes, then put the relish and other stuff inside after it was cooked.  I did that and ate it.  Mmmmm.  Delicious.

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Tired of cooking--and tired of roasted duck, since we have eaten two in as many days--so we went to Subway tonight.  It was an early dinner and a good one.  I had the foot-long tuna like I always do.  My son had the meatball marinara.  He seems to really like it.  Given all the responses for that one, I regret not having included on the poll originally.