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Subway Chicken not so much chicken? (1 Viewer)

Tick said:
Haven't read past here, but I hope a bunch of people jumped on this.  Subway takes roughly 10x as long as Jimmy John's.  3 people in line in front of you can mean 15 minutes before you get your sub.  JJ has your sub ready before your credit card clears.
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Wow, that's freaky fast. 

 
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Sorry to say I didn't have the big kahuna.

when I got there I saw it was a hot roast beef sub and I was feeling like a cold sub.

so I went to a different location to see how much oil and vinegar they put on the sub. It was about equal

 
Bull Dozier said:
I'll go back again, but I'm certain mine wasn't freshly slicing the meat.
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Not saying this didn't happen, but it would be an egregious violation of company policy.  JM is all about the quality and experience.  Fresh baked bread, fresh produce, high quality meats and cheeses sliced fresh in front of you.  Franchisees are required to go through extensive training, 3 times more than industry standards.  Cannot fathom a store having the meats pre-sliced and pre-portioned in a bucket somewhere.  Full Disclosure: I may or may not work in their corporate office.

 
NJ said:
Not saying this didn't happen, but it would be an egregious violation of company policy.  JM is all about the quality and experience.  Fresh baked bread, fresh produce, high quality meats and cheeses sliced fresh in front of you.  Franchisees are required to go through extensive training, 3 times more than industry standards.  Cannot fathom a store having the meats pre-sliced and pre-portioned in a bucket somewhere.  Full Disclosure: I may or may not work in their corporate office.
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What would happen if a franchisee was pre portioning the meat?

 
Bull Dozier said:
I'll go back again, but I'm certain mine wasn't freshly slicing the meat.
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i don't pay attention anymore, but when i first went to Jersey Mike's i noticed they always freshly sliced the meat.  I just assume they still do it.  Next time i'm there i'll watch for it.

 
NJ said:
Not saying this didn't happen, but it would be an egregious violation of company policy.  JM is all about the quality and experience.  Fresh baked bread, fresh produce, high quality meats and cheeses sliced fresh in front of you.  Franchisees are required to go through extensive training, 3 times more than industry standards.  Cannot fathom a store having the meats pre-sliced and pre-portioned in a bucket somewhere.  Full Disclosure: I may or may not work in their corporate office.
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Now the gloves have been thrown down.  The next time the family wants a sandwich, I'll go there.

 
Pop Tart said:
That's Jersey Mikes claim to fame, slicing real meat right in front of you.

The Big Kahuna with Jalapenos is da bomb diggity
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Just because they slice it in front of you doesn't make it real meat.  I have yet to see a real ham that was square.  

ETA:  What the heck is that white thing to the left of the ham???

 
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Godsbrother said:
Just because they slice it in front of you doesn't make it real meat.  I have yet to see a real ham that was square.  
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Gross.  The ingredient list on their subs is a who's who of cancer.  This is just the ham.

cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, coated with dextrose, flavoring and oleoresin of paprika

Later inspection would have you believe that their roast beef is actually fairly clean.  Their pork and chicken products are a bigly disaster.  Also jersey mikes for sure uses soy in their "chicken" product as well, but not clear how much.

 
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There's a lot of comparisons to McDonalds in here but this study (which was done less than 5 minutes from my house) included chicken sandwiches from McDonalds, Wendy's etc... as well and all were around 90% chicken DNA. Subway was a major outlier in terms of bad food quality at least in this area (which shouldn't surprise anyone who's ever had a subway roasted chicken).

 
culdeus said:
Gross.  The ingredient list on their subs is a who's who of cancer.  This is just the ham.

cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, coated with dextrose, flavoring and oleoresin of paprika

Later inspection would have you believe that their roast beef is actually fairly clean.  Their pork and chicken products are a bigly disaster.  Also jersey mikes for sure uses soy in their "chicken" product as well, but not clear how much.
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It's easy to make other things taste like chicken, when everything "tastes like chicken". Pork is similar.

Artificial beef is a lot harder to do, but if you serve it where a ton of condiments overwhelm the taste of the beef, it's easier. Which is how McDonalds gets away with semi-pseudo beef. A roast beef sandwich is harder to do that with given people who eat them do so because they want to taste the beef. It's hard to fake. 

 
Politician Spock said:
It's easy to make other things taste like chicken, when everything "tastes like chicken". Pork is similar.

Artificial beef is a lot harder to do, but if you serve it where a ton of condiments overwhelm the taste of the beef, it's easier. Which is how McDonalds gets away with semi-pseudo beef. A roast beef sandwich is harder to do that with given people who eat them do so because they want to taste the beef. It's hard to fake. 
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But most places cover up cheap beef with MSG and other chlorides and things of that nature.  Unless they are fos it doesn't appear to be happening there.  In that sense from the menu the only food I would consider clean would be their roast beef which is odd because JM is using a whos who list of bad stuff on all the rest of it.

 
culdeus said:
But most places cover up cheap beef with MSG and other chlorides and things of that nature.  Unless they are fos it doesn't appear to be happening there.  In that sense from the menu the only food I would consider clean would be their roast beef which is odd because JM is using a whos who list of bad stuff on all the rest of it.
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I was just speaking in general, and not as a defender of Jersey Mikes. My point being that even Jersey Mikes, which goes to great lengths to keeps it's meat cheap, has found it hard to sell it's customers cheap roast beef.... because it's hard to fake. 

 
NJ said:
Not saying this didn't happen, but it would be an egregious violation of company policy.  JM is all about the quality and experience.  Fresh baked bread, fresh produce, high quality meats and cheeses sliced fresh in front of you.  Franchisees are required to go through extensive training, 3 times more than industry standards.  Cannot fathom a store having the meats pre-sliced and pre-portioned in a bucket somewhere.  Full Disclosure: I may or may not work in their corporate office.
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I stand corrected.  

We needed a meal on the go last night, so I suggested JMs.  They did indeed slice the meat right there to make the sandwich.  Just the veggies in the counter to put them together.

 
Godsbrother said:
Just because they slice it in front of you doesn't make it real meat.  I have yet to see a real ham that was square.  

ETA:  What the heck is that white thing to the left of the ham???
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:goodposting:    ETA lol @ prosciuttini.  Guess that's what that call prosciutto?

Yes, yes, yes, a million times, yes.  All of the chains have gross "meat".  I've walked out of several mom & pop sandwich places too when I see that their roast beef looks like this instead of like this.

 
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Anyone try a Blimpies lately? They all closed down around here (used to be three of them in the area). Not bad for a chain sub place, maybe they closed down all over...

 
msudaisy26 said:
I agree, but most real deli's sell cheap meat. There are only few that sell quality meat. 
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What is cheap meat?

most of my experience with delis is in the truth-state area and pretty much everything is boars head outside of certain Italian meets and they all make their own roast beef.

 
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