AS IF.
Posted on 04/08/2006 7:29:41 AM PDT by Cvengr
Yep, I am sold on Quizno's. No pretense of healthiness, just good ol' lipquivering goodness.
Quizno's should ditch the baby commercials and do a Subway parody: "I gained 245 pounds by eating nothing but Quizno's subs for a whole year!"
Actually Subway is following exactly McD's expansion pattern, in both franchises and revenue, but having read the McD's book they managed to shave about 15 years off the clock. McD's crossed 10,000 stores in the mid-80s, SubWay crossed 10,000 stores in only 10 years. And of course for most of the 10 years McD's has been suffering through some very bad decisions that have seriously hurt their bottom line, they tried to move away from their core market of burgers and lost tons of revenue because of it; they finally listened to every business analyst on the planet a couple of years ago and went back to being a burger joint and the profits have gone up, but they lost a lot of expansion opportunities in that era.
I prefer the neighborhood italian sub place called Santoro's
Matt and Tony's was really good, but they are gone. SAD.
Sub way is ok, but too much like McDonald's
Are all Subways the same? I ask this because my local Subway has a large selection of hot and cold sandwiches, and if you don't like soft drinks you can get milk, which I do. I stop in about once a month, and the last thing I would call it is 'junk food'.
Subway is one lame chain.
I'll never eat at a Subway again. They're on my permanent boycott list for that cartoon in Europe they put out a couple of years back making fun of America on 9/11.
Quiznos is much better. But a sub made by one's loving husband is even better.
That's why it's so easy to lose weight eating their subs.
They make, bar none, the worst subs I've ever had in my 56 years on planet earth.
Hear, hear. I find Quizno's to be almost as bad.
AS IF.
Maybe the gals thought you should lose weight?
Use a different approach the next time like I do. I'm not a wild asshole. I always connect with the cuties that make my food and get a steaming hot pastrami with melted swiss on toasted wheat that is so big, it takes a knife to cut it into useful portions.
There are endless benefits to appreciating people:)
They may taste better, but they are significantly more expensive. It costs anywhere from $1-$2 more at Quizno's for a sub, chips and a drink than it costs at Subway. I don't eat Subway very often, but after a couple times checking out Quizno's after they moved into town, I couldn't justify spending the extra cash when they aren't that much better. Call me cheap ("You're cheap!"), but I have a tight budget and when I don't bring a lunch from home, I'm not going to pay Quizno's prices.
"Subway donates considerable money to liberal causes. If you want to help support the democrat party then eat at Subway, because a portion of every dollar you spend there goes in the democrats political pockets and almost none in anything conservative."
This is nice to know - I looked up Subway on www.buyblue.org and they consider it apolitical.
I think a lot of that varies from one location to another. There are two Subway locations in western Canada that make the best -- and biggest -- tuna subs I've ever had.
The commercial is about hemophilia. A hereditary bleeding disorder. The kid can not run and play because with hemophilia even a small cut or bruise can lead to them bleeding to death.
Bayer has a treatment (Kogenate FS) that they are promoting.
Nothing sexual about it.
But that's just us, people who are concerned about the healthiness of what we eat.
That may have been the second scene shot, but the first was definitely a youngster pondering whether to 'get into the game' with the basketball and I read the word as 'homophobia'. Perhaps I'm mistaken. That's what caught my attention to the ad. Additionally, Bayer has been associated with gay advertising campaigns and listed on GLBF websites as a sponsor to contact whenever a media figure makes a comment construed as being 'anti-gay'.
The Subway association with healthy diet isn't bad, IMHO, although perhaps a bit grossly overpresented. For a long time, fast food marketing has recognized its major hurdle to overcome has been its association with heart disease and poor diet.
The Bayer TV ad was more shocking to me.
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