Subway: Let Them Eat Cake.
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But might make the bread smell like crap to some? Pass.
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I actually like some of their other offerings, but their cheesesteak is pretty awful. And not in a “greasy goodness but so bad for you,” way. Since the meat is pre-cooked it is the opposite of “fresh.”
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I would say its fast food bread that is dissapointing.
Modern American artisan breads (consider Peter Reinhart etc…) can actually be quite innovative and delicious. Also we can’t forget an American invented the first bread slicing machine (Otto Rohwedder) which changed the landscape of bread (for better and worse). Now I’m hungry…
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I got advice from a friend that used to work at Subway that if you wanted to ensure you got a sandwich that they couldn’t screw up (spoiler: some employees don’t care enough to be sanitary when prepping the ingredients ahead of time) then you should only order the veggie delight. Which works perfectly for me because it was already the only thing i ordered from them. That said i haven’t been there in a year or two, nor do i expect to eat there again for a while.
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It doesn’t. The most likely culprit for the smell in Subway restaurants is the vegetable oil they use in the bread. Azodicarbonamide is odorless, a fact revealed by a quick Google search.
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See also the taxation on Jaffa Cakes…
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Regular white bread is made almost entirely out of carbohydrates, not sure that’s much better, though.
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Frankly, I’d be somewhat surprised if their ‘bread’/cake contained any functional yeast. By that I mean it probably literally contains some quantity yeast, so they can pretend it’s ‘bread’, but that yeast serves no purpose in terms of the buns’ final form.
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I occasionally munch at a Subway. I note meat- and veggie-like substances placed on a bread-like substrate. If I wanted purity, I’d slaughter and cook a chicken, pigeon, or gull, the old “chicken of the sea”. But I’m lazy so I’ll take what Subway or Burger Thing offers. That;s what omnivores do, right?
Don’t worry about a bread’s sugar content. Count the plastic microparticles instead.
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I don’t think they’re chemically leavened. It really would be cake then. But the texture would be all wrong if that were the case.
Even if the chemical is odorless by itself it can catalyze different reactions or form compounds in the bread that release odors. A 10 second Google search may not go into enough depth to say definitively if this is the case.
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Kraft American Cheese doesn’t speak for the rest of the country either, but it and it’s processed cheese food counterparts are all sold as American cheese.
I would say its fast food bread that is dissapointing.
Modern American artisan breads (consider Peter Reinhart etc…) can actually be quite innovative and delicious. Also we can’t forget an American invented the first bread slicing machine (Otto Rohwedder) which changed the landscape of bread (for better and worse). Now I’m hungry…
The tail of two Americas…
American artisan breads are indeed amazing and can rival the best from Europe and beyond…
However, stop into any corner store from Portland Maine to San Diego and the product on offer will be a white, bland, bread product packed with as much sugar and preservative as allowable by law. Same with fast food and other mainstream restaurants (Denny’s etc). Wonder bread just isn’t that wonderful.
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I agree that DiBella’s subs are excellent, but they’re highly specific to the region, having originated in Rochester NY.
If you like DiBella’s and have a chance to stop in a Wegman’s, try one of their subs, just as excellent!
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Many of the “what do foreigners think of the US” questions on Quora feature an observation that our bread is strangely sweet. Wonder why.
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That is Food Babe woo.
Don’t be like Food Babe.
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There is a chemical substance which is responsible for millions of deaths a year. It is used not only in Yoga mat making, but also to cool nuclear reactors.
Some companies are depraved enough to use it to create food products!
Heck, some people will gladly give a glass of it straight up - ten times what it would take to kill a grown man- to their poor, innocent children. And yet, they are never prosecuted for it!
Won’t someone think of the dangers of water? Everyone acts like it just falls out of the sky! DO YOUR RESEARCH!!! QUESTION EVERYTHING!!!
(And by research, I mean search online and disregard everything that disagrees with what I am saying and find other people who agree with us, because obviously, we’re right, right? And if we’re right, that makes them wrong. Why would I listen to someone who is wrong, just because they “are an expert” and “have education in the subject” and “this goes against everything fundamental that we know on the subject” and “I can easily try it myself and see that I’m wrong”)
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I like to forget about wonder bread 
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The quote (which is actually from the philosopher Rousseau and not as popularly believed Marie Antoinette) actually refers to brioche (a sweet French bread) and “cake” is a mistranslation.
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