| Tango01 | 02 Nov 2020 4:20 p.m. PST |
"It behooves fast food chains to pump as much sugar into your meal as possible—not just for taste, as in the case of, say, Domino's sweet mango habanero wing sauce, but also to make these menu items go down easy and remain maximally appealing to our bellies and brains. Sugar, like sodium, is not always a substance your palate can pinpoint in your food, but it's likely to be there. And the Supreme Court of Ireland recently decided that enough was enough: Subway sandwich bread, it was determined, contains too much sugar to meet the legal definition of bread. According to the Independent of Ireland, because of the bread's high sugar content, Subway's sandwiches could not be considered a "staple food." The reason this categorization matters is that staple foods are exempt from a value-added tax (VAT), whereas "certain other baked goods made from dough" (i.e., pastries and the like) are subject to the tax. The Guardian points out that Subway bread not only exceeds the amount of permissible sugar in staple foods, but contains five times as much sugar as permitted by Ireland's Value-Added Tax Act of 1972…"
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| von Schwartz | 02 Nov 2020 4:45 p.m. PST |
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| Silurian | 02 Nov 2020 5:11 p.m. PST |
Darn! And there was me thinking the Subway option was the healthy choice… |
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| Thresher01 | 02 Nov 2020 6:17 p.m. PST |
It is definitely NOT a pastry. |
| cloudcaptain | 02 Nov 2020 6:21 p.m. PST |
I am pretty sure it's cardboard. |
| Augustus | 02 Nov 2020 7:50 p.m. PST |
I, for one, welcome our syntho-bread-pastry-glutenized masters. |
| Tgerritsen | 02 Nov 2020 7:57 p.m. PST |
I thought it was registered as a building material. It sure tastes like one. |
| Zephyr1 | 02 Nov 2020 9:38 p.m. PST |
Sugar tastes bad to me now, so eating that sub would be like eating poison… :-p |
| Garryowen | 03 Nov 2020 7:38 a.m. PST |
I just order a salad version of the sandwich. I was not aware of the sugar problem, but the grain that is not 100% whole was enough for me to opt out of the sandwiches. Tom |
| Old Wolfman | 03 Nov 2020 9:38 a.m. PST |
Whatever it is,I think it tastes good,especially their Meatball Marinara with provolone cheese. |
| Rudysnelson | 03 Nov 2020 11:03 a.m. PST |
In the USA, it is a sandwich and nota pastry. Since I Dino's care what they think or regulate in Ireland, Subway sandwiches are that. |
| Tango01 | 03 Nov 2020 12:26 p.m. PST |
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 Legion 4  | 04 Nov 2020 2:32 p.m. PST |
Yeah what is the big deal in Ireland ? Just eat the  sandwich !!!! |
| Thresher01 | 05 Nov 2020 12:52 a.m. PST |
From my experience and observations, given the almost total lack of meat on many/most of their sandwiches, they should be classified as salads, instead of sandwiches. The exception being their meatball sandwich which is my go-to selection if I must eat Subway (usually only done if others insist on it). I don't know if they do a Philly Cheesesteak, but if so, that might be an option, and I have seen a chicken sandwich advertised which appears to break with the aforementioned paradigm, though there is rampant food marketing fraud in the advertising industry, so…… |
| Covert Walrus | 12 Nov 2020 9:12 p.m. PST |
The legal definition of something has little to do with reality. After all, a US High Court once argued about whether a fish is an actual object or not – link – and in a relevant note, how long a footlong has to be to be called a footlong – link |
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