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NEW YORK (AP) - What's in an inch? Apparently, enough missing meat, cheese and tomatoes to cause an uproar.
Subway, the world's largest fast food chain with 38,000 locations, is facing widespread criticism after a man who appears to be from Australia posted a photo on the company's Facebook page of one of its footlong sandwiches next to a tape measure that shows the sub is just 11 inches.
I really don't think a 1-inch difference in bread length is a big deal. It is a slippery slope, a dangerous trend, but by itself, no biggie. It's like buying a Red Hot, but the dog is only somewhat spicier than its non-red counterpart. Or buying a foot-long dog that's only 10 inches. It's the same amount of meat as the footlong, but it's a little fatter. The footlong is the same amount of meat as a 10-inch, but stretched longer. Plus shouting to the guy at the ballpark "Gimme a ten-inch" sounds funny. Foot-long is a good phrase for it, because everyone knows that you aren't asking for a dog that measures exactly 12 inches after cooking (what if it measures 12.25 inches? Are you gonna complain then?). They're asking for a dog that's longer than the regular one.
Same with the subway sub. You don't want a half-sub. And you don't want the long party-sub. You want a normal regular whole sub. Much easier to call it a foot-long. And hey - maybe the guy who invented it wasn't referring to inches. Maybe he was referring to the length of his own foot. In which case - if it was only 7-inches long, it'd still be a foot-long.
Some customers are just overly picayune. Not to mention, no one needs that extra inch of bread. If you truly miss it, then there's something wrong with you.
To me, this stupidity is just like the places that offer a quarter pound burger. Most of them, at one time or another, put a little * in the fine print part, with the words "pre cooked weight", meaning it was a quarter pound patty before cooking. These Subway breads were probably 12" before baking but, if you've ever baked bread, you know some breads seem to shrink a tiny bit with cooling. I don't care if it's an inch short or not as long as they get my turkey and Black Forest Ham on it. lol
This is about as crazy as the kids who sat and counted how many chocolate chips were in cookies and found out there were 5 less than advertised. Somebody has WAY too much time on their hands!
I remember a lawsuit several years ago about a restaurant that served "foot long" coneys that were only 9 inches. The restaurant lost, and had to stopp calling them "foot longs."
I remember this because the judge stated that a consumer can reasonably expect a foot long sandwich to be 12 inches but a mile high sandwich wouldn't be expected to be a mile high.
We all like to brag that "" things "" are longer than they really are.
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