I have a friend who doesn't get sick very often...but she's eaten at Quizmo's twice and gotten sick twice. No such problem for her at Subway. Sure, you can always always find a better sandwich somewhere, but the price/quality/value dynamic at Subway is pretty darn good. Beats a lot of other "grab and go" choices. My only complaint is a little too much bread versus filling.

And Roger.... I understand where you're coming from. I actually feel you can get as good a meal in Ireland (or the UK) as anywhere, (despite assertations to the contrary). However, I think the U.S. and Canada do a much better job than Europe when it comes to the quality, variety, availability, and price of fast food options.

I'm not sure this is something we should boast about, however!

subway global ubiquity
 

After a slow and shaky start, with probably several licensees, Subway is almost every popular area in Australia, with more outlets than McDonald's, and with most fast food franchises now selling similar sandwich/baguette product lines.

Before this success I fondly remember the Subway outlet in Sydney's Kings Cross, not for the fact that it was so badly managed (but great for regular customers), but for the great people watching on the main street - right betwwen the stripshows, street walkers, bikies, locals and addicts. :D

never could put my finger on exactly why, but i find the smell of subway to be sickening. it ends there.

most exotic subways?
 

Stopped in for a toasted sub with the Mrs in the most interesting (unexpected) stop in New England's Cape Cod - Provincetown :D

We wanted to drive to the end of the cape, but once we made it this far it was so colourful, busy and different from any place else we had been in the US (including NYC), we had to look around.

Great service and a nice outdoor patio overlooking the water, for these toasted subs ^ . No waterside places yet found downunder... and would prefer a waterside cafe style place here anyway!

Jersey Mikes - how could I have left that off my list, my daughter worked at one in Charlotte for a year. They introduced her to Tasty Kakes.

When we first got to Alabama, I discovered a local Pizzeria advertising "Greek Pizza & Grinders" - made me temporarily homesick for New England and brought back memories of the entrepreneur back in college who would drop his box at the entry to each dorm and shout "grindahs!".

Finding Grinders in Alabama was only topped by discovering 3 Candlepin lanes in a California bowling alley.

Let's use some boolean logic:


IF Subway sandwich is equal to or greater than "okay" THEN eastwest's hunger must equal "extreme". :D

They used to have a sandwich shop called the Grinder Factory on N. Lamar here in Austin. The guy who owned it used to be in the Navy stationed in Groton. I think he was a New Englander that just got tired of the weather back in CT. Anyway, his were the closest thing to the real thing I've ever had in Texas. His thing was that it was all about the bread. He had to end up cutting a deal for a local bakery to bake it to his specifications, and they did an admirable job.

Don't know if he is still in business or not, but he should be. His sandwiches were that good. ;)

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I wish we had quiznos up here in NH!!

Wow! No Quizno's in NH? Finally something other than polar bears that we have that you don't! :D

I've had to try and explain to my native Houstonian wife the difference between greek and italian pizza....with my preference being greek. This is the woman that thinks I'm crazy because to me, the less toppings on a pizza, the better.

Have you found a worthwhile hot dog in AL yet???

Never liked Subway. Just doesn't taste "right" to me.

Blimpie's USED to be very, very good. I can still remember having my 7th birthday party at the Blimpie's in Bayonne (1971), across the street from Bayonne Hospital. Not many Blimpie stores back then (first one was in Hoboken, 1964) - and it wasn't fast food - it was a sub shop.

Maybe I'm being nostalgic, but those subs back then were almost as good as the White House Sub Shop in Arctic Ave. in AC.

http://www.blimpie.com/inside_blimpi...impiestory.php

Hot dogs are not on the diet at the moment. There is a local chain, but I'm uncomfortable wth the name, "Sneaky Pete's". There's enough mystery in a hot dog already. there's a one-off cafe in Jacksonville, AL called "Tweeners" that I will try when I can afford the calories. I'm told the owners are 20-something twin girls. I want a couple with chili, cheese and slaw.

We're still not there, but pizza in the south has come a long way from the pie I was served in SC in 1983 covered in pork breakfast sausage and raw onions.

The Italian BMT is good - though have you noticed the vile smell that every Subway store seems to purvey? It just smells of fat

Three of my kids have worked in a Quizno's so I've been there too many times and watched a lot of sandwiches being made. I do worry about the little bucket of juice that the meat is dipped into. However, they do pass the Health Dept inspections everytime, so the temperature must be sufficiently hot to kill those microbes. Still, I wonder if that's the source of illness in your friend's local Q.

Unfortunately, I have the same problem.

It could definitely be a healthy alternative, but for some reason the scent is offensive to my senses.