Originally Posted by
kipper
Near where I work, there is an Italian restaurant that does decent subs, but they charge $6 for a 6-inch sub. There are no bakeries within walking distance. I think part of the issue is that here, many bakeries are bakeries only. They do breads, cakes, pies, etc. They do not dabble in lunch-type foods. If you want lunch-type foods, you need to go to a deli, and those usually do not bake their own bread.
But even a deli will make better, more authentic/wholesome/less processed subs than subway. The bread doesn't need to be actually baked on-the-spot as long as it is good quality wholesome bread and not the airy stuff subway uses.
6 dollars for 6 inch sounds a bit expensive to me. That would run you maybe 4 euros here, at the worst, for such a size of sandwich. In any case though, a footlong subway also csosts 6 dollars, but the smaller size wholesome actual bread sub will be at least as filling if not more filling than the larger subway sub.
So even at that price point it's not that bad, though I agree with you that 6 dollars is absolutely pushing it for that size of sandwich.
edit: oh, 6 dollars is only 5,34 euros. While I still think it's epensive, it's not extraordinarily unpayably expensive imo.