Today’s duty was 193 …. the one I rant about everytime I have to do it. But today is an exception, I’m going to rant about Subway instead :-)

I’ve never ever had a Subway before today. But, seeing as I had to get up at 03:30 to do the MegaBus part of the duty before the Park and Ride I was getting pretty hungry by 10:00am. Whatever I got to eat had to be bought quickly, near to a bus stop, and would be eaten during the 5 minute break between each Park and Ride loop. The Subway located here fitted the bill. They were advertising a Breakfast Sub with bacon, sausage and egg, all made fresh this morning. “Hum” I thought “that sounds good” and ordered one. What a let down! How to make such simple ingredients taste so bad takes real skill, and believe me these guys had skill. I’ll start with the sub itself, as I said fresh baked today. It must have been fresh ‘baked’ in a pressure cooker; very soft and soggy with no discernable taste or aroma. I wonder if it used wheat flour, I couldn’t smell wheat. I guess the sausage was the circular disc of MDF in the Sub. Finding that my teeth couldn’t actually bite through something I took it out and looked at it. Yes, it may once have been sausagemeat but now it was nearly black and as solid as a bit of wood. I couldn’t bite it to taste it and sucking it produced no flavour – this was thrown away. Now to the egg, how difficult and time consuming is it to break an egg into a pan and stir it up and cook as an omlette? Take 1 or 2 minutes? In Subway they’re already cooked and deep frozen so they are put into the microwave to defrost and reheat. Takes about the same time as cooking fresh but tastes 0 out of 10. The bacon was OK!! Thin and smokey, I’d guess that it’s Oscar Meyer American bacon.

Despite the bacon being OK I’ll not be buying a Subway …. ever again.