Subway does have a very distinctive smell, which is unique to their brand. It certainly doesn’t attract me in the way that good baking bread does.
It was Rathergood, wasn’t it.
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Oh, crap. Beaten to it by @theophrastus.
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Rathergood, Weebl, Cyriak, Mata, Sheep!, et al…woo yay hoopla!
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Missed it entirely. That and Sonic and Chic-Fil-A and In And Out Burger.
I liked the Batch 81 sauce. Our local Quiznos sold it by the bottle for a while.
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There are still a bunch of Quiznos locations in Canada, one near me, and every six or eight weeks I have a chicken carbonara sub, which is hands down the best chain sub there is, expensive but worth it. I’d have to be pretty goddamned hungry before I’d even look at a Subway.
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That’s cool. A lot of TV shows or ads pass me by especially with having a TiVo at home. But as someone working in the ad industry, I can speak to how much impact it made at the time – both for Quiznos and for the industry as a whole. The fact that we’re still talking about it a decade later tells you how unique and memorable it was for people who saw it.
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Krispy Kreme was interesting. I grew up for a big chunk in the south, with an ancient KK next to my middle school. Had a horseshoe shaped set of stools permanently occupied by a set of retirees, it was tiny tiny but great little place.
In the midwest they seemed to expand without really recognizing the regional development of the company that earned them their popularity elsewhere. There was old KK, and then new, not your parents KK that was in every gas station and licensed outlet available. Two headed brand identity.
Glad it didn’t last, and ended without it going under totally.
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My family loved the creepy guy. My spouse will still get close and say unasked “we got a peppa bar!”
Thanks quiznos.
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Oliver Postgate was a British national treasure. He should be an international treasure.
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I also remember the Burger King Herb campaign. A high recall rate doesn’t necessarily mean an ad campaign was good for the company.
The Quiznos by me were depressed and smelled bad. I liked the Spongs commercials, but they were also a problem for a restaurant that i already thought was dirty stench.
The Herb campaign wasn’t successful in the long term. Their biggest, weirdest success was with their brief tenure with the ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky who created stuff like the Subservient Chicken and the Burger King Xbox games. Those really propelled BK for a few years and totally changed the target market of the company. If Quiznos had kept on with ‘weird’ ads like the Spongmonkeys they might have kept targeting a younger market, but those ads were so bizarre and controversial that they backed off quickly, so unfortunately it left them with mixed messages.
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The thing that made me not like Quiznos was when the sandwiches all got smaller and saucier. the sauces that came on the sandwiches always made me feel ill and they came on the sandwich by default in copious amounts, it wasn’t an option to leave them off at our local quiznos which is now closed and converted into a second subway. At subway you can at least choose not to add the sauce or add a different one, the “your way” style assembly.
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Because Subway bread uses a chemical found in yoga mats.
That’s strange, the best (IMO) pizzas tend to be cooked extremely quickly, at very high temperatures (90 seconds at 900°F for a traditional Neapolitan pizza). I guess reheating instant pizzas is a different game from baking fresh ones, though.
Ooh, is it dihidrogen monoxide? That stuff’s nasty.
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“Predictably consistent mediocrity” is arguably the central principle behind the industry of franchised fast food eateries. Certainly before chains eating out when on the road was a real crap shoot. Roadside eats might be great, okay, bad, or indeed dangerous. The creation of chains did nothing to improve odds of having an excellent meal, but they did strive to be consistently “okay.” It won’t be terrible, it won’t make you sick, and you know what to order.
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Watching employees carefully use the scale to give me my sandwich stopped me after two tries. Ripping a slice of meat in half because it made my sandwich a hair over the weigh limit? Just silly.
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Not since 2014.
It was never a harmful chemical.
And many, many baked goods used azodicarbonamide as well. Many of them phased it out after the media picked up the dumb ‘yoga mat’ thing. So can we stop?
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