You don't have bakeries with fresh bread that serve sandwiches with fresh ingredients during lunch time?!?

I mean it's not like we're talking haute cuisine here. Any place that sells bread can also put some fresh ingredients on said bread and sell a perfectly fine sandwich. And at the price level you'd pay at subway, you would have a very good sandwich for that.

What a poverty if you live in an area that doesn't even provide such basic service... :(

It's not that I find subway subs absolutely vile or anything. They are perfectly edible. However I just don't consider it actual bread or actual food, I consider it fast food. And if I want fast food there are many cheaper options.

A smaller whole-grain bun with some lettuce and maybe some goat cheese or something or maybe ham or whatever will fill me up more than an entire subway sub. The subway sub is to me like any fast food: it's like air or something. Hard to explain. It's not substantial enough to be actual food.

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.

Different countries, different laws. Depending where it is in the U.S. a small business might have to be licensed as both a restaurant and a bakery to serve food on the premises. There are also different tax rules for a place that sells food to be eaten on the premises (restaurant) and that sells food to go (bakery).

There can also be issues with storage and refrigeration. For example, a bakery might not have the amount of refrigeration space needed to store meat at the correct temperature.

Having tried the 6-inch sub, no, it really was not more filling.
This is all true as well.

Ever had a good sub at Subway?

No. I've been dragged to a Subway by a friend, who loves the stuff. Unfortunately I don't. I ended up paying 7-9€ and was highly disappointed.

I quite enjoy a Subway meatball on flatbread loaded with jalapeños and banana peppers

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Meat balls with chicken breast. It's good.

Interesting combination.

I have enjoyed the subs at Subway. They usually do a good job of creating the sub. I like their tuna subs.

Me too. Tuna is one of favorites.

Consistency is about the only positive attribute that I can apply to Subway. The bread is disgusting, and the only thing sweeter than the bread is that sauce the meatballs (how much meat is actually in them??) sit in.

I answered my own question. The meatballs are 65% beef. The "ham" is minimum 68% pork, the "turkey" is minimum 66% turkey.

I agree.
I've only ever had one Sub.Well,I lie - I've only ever had a third of a Sub as the rest went in the bin.
The bread was like chewing on the flaked-off skin from someone with really bad eczema and the cheese was so processed I thought I was eating the packaging it came in.
A truly disgusting sandwich.

Amazingly, Subway has managed to market itself as a healthy alternative. I'd rather a Quarter Pounder. It tastes better and is just as healthy.

I'll take you word on what eczema afflicted skin tastes like. ;)