Subway is an American fast food tradition, for when you want something different from burgers and fries. Their offering began as a humble 6’’ or footlong sandwich, but over the years has evolved into much more. They offer a choice of breads, and these too are constantly changing. Recent additions have included Asiago Cheese (quite a change from a regular bread) and although these offerings change constantly, I have always seen at least one wheat variety among the selection.
Likewise, Subway built their reputation on sandwiches - made the way the customer wanted them. You choose your basic meats and cheeses, then pile on ’’the fixin’s’’ as they call them, followed by your choice of dressings. Years ago these were quite plain, lettuce, tomato, pickles, olives, onion, etc and mayonnaise/mustard/oil and vinegar.
Now the menu has expanded to include such exotic sounding flavours as sweet onion chicken teriyaki, and 4 specialty dressings including my favourite - the Southwestern. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a lip-smacking piquant, tangy sauce that goes incredibly well on the club - take it from me!
You can purchase just a sandwich or you opt for the meal deal which consists of fountain drink and your choice of chips with a sandwich at a special price. They also do special ’’kids meals’’ with a smaller sandwich - on a roll - small drink and cookie plus a toy for the child, which are a good buy also.
But Subway is not only about sandwiches any more. They offer soups, salads, and a variety of home baked cookies, as well as trying out the breakfast market with some early morning offerings.
Oh and they give you stamps towards a free sub - 1 for every 6’’sub and 2 for every footlong. You need 10 stamps and then you can present the card the next time you buy a medium drink, and you’ll get a 6’’sandwich for free.
We mix and match our visits to our local Subway in Mauldin, SC. Sometimes we eat in - we know the people who work there and they know their customers; it gets its own little community going on in there sometimes. It is always clean, although I agree with the other writer in that the tables are small but I think that helps with the cosy atmosphere. I have always loved their wallpaper too. It looked historical and was like a map of New York’s subway system from way back, and newsprint about the building of the subways. Recently it changed and some of the newer stores have the new style paper, which has larger images of some of the city buildings on it.
On other occasions we get take out - or if in a rush - go through the drive-thru. The service is always the same, we get a good product at a fair price and served by somebody with a friendly disposition.
Subway makes a refreshing change to the usual fast food outlets, and they now have so many stores in so many locations that there’s usually one fairly close by. Treat yourself to a lighter option than those greasy burgers - remember, they helped Jarod lose over 100lbs!