A post by Maynard
Tammy said she preferred Quiznos over Subway. I’m here to challenge that point.
I acknowledge taste as a personal thing. So I don’t need to convince anyone to change their taste. Eat whatever you like, and God bless you. But I have some data to add to the equation.
Tammy enjoys the taste of a toasted Quiznos sandwich. But Subway will also toast your sandwich. More importantly, there’s a darned good reason not to toast your sandwich.
California is an enlightened state, and Los Angeles is an enlightened county. Because we’re so enlightened, the sales tax here is something like 9.75%. However, there is no sales tax on basic foods. Sales tax is applied to restaurants and some non-essential foods.
So if you go to a market and buy a loaf of bread and a slice of cold meat, there’s no tax. If you go to a restaurant and buy a loaf of bread and a slice of cold meat and they make it into a sandwich and you sit down and eat it, then there’s tax.
Ah, but if you go into a store and buy a loaf of bread and a slice of cold meat and they put the meat in the bread and give it to you and you take it away, then there’s no tax! However, if they heat the meat or you eat it on the premises, then there’s tax.
So if I go to Subway and get a cold chicken sandwich for takeout, I’ll pay $5. However, if I eat at the store or toast it, I’ll pay $5.49.
I will rot in hell before I’ll pay the state of California 49 cents so I can eat my damn sandwich. Give me my cold Subway sandwich to go! Bwahahahaha! (As they say, revenge is a dish best served cold.)
Since Quiznos specializes in toasted sandwiches, I guess they always charge California sales tax. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
As part of my ongoing fight against creeping fascism, I choose Subway over Quiznos.
fighting for freedom, one sandwich at a time.
MAYO-nard, in KETCHingUP with the blog, I admit to RELISHing your post. Once again you’ve PICKLED my brain. TOAST 2U! LETTUCE have a good WOOFAW and SPREAD some smiles 🙂 TOO CHEESEY? O-LIVE and let live. I’ve MUSTARD up the courage to desist. It’s BUN FUN.
Taxes must be great! I live in New York State – taxes only go UP, never down.
Guess which party controls both states. Enough!
Subway’s founder, Fred Deluca, started out poor, worked hard, borrowed money to start his chain, took risks and became a billionarie… and visits his franchisee’s across the country every year anonymously. He keeps to modest lifestyle, driving a seven-year-old car and often flies coach, rather than the more expensive business class. Until 1990, he signed every check issued by the company.
Richard E. Schaden, founder of Quiznos, has quite a different history that I will let the reader research and come to their own conclusions.
In my world, Subway wins because character matters more than the taste or a few pennies….
OMG, my favorite french bread, roast beef, tomato, spinach, provolone cheese, salt and pepper, oil and vinegar and a small amount of mayo and then toasted! MMMMMMM But NO, you just reminded me why I can’t go there any more. It was sooooooooooo good too! I am so over CA.
Very important point of discussion, I’m surprised it hasn’t come up before. Subway gets my vote. That Quiznos smell stays in your clothes the rest of the day. (what is it anyway?) Plus, it seems their toasted bread is harder than Subway toasted bread and I have a sensitve tooth that when it gets hit just right sends me flying to the moon. Fresh, soft subway bread is the best! (had to give up honey oat for wheat because of the tooth)
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Very good post, Maynard. I was aware of this, and yeah– my super secret guilty pleasure trips to get frozen yogurt are always a “to go” order, and I eat my heavenly sinful sugary treat in the quiet and comfort of my car in the parking lot, or to a tune from the ole XM, rather than in the midst of a noisy bunch of teens and crying babies. And somewhere, in-between moments of bliss, whether it be a spoonful of chocolate or strawberry, giddy thoughts of how what I’m doing is my way of telling California where they can stick their fu**in’ 9.75% tax do pass through my mind. Just sayin… 🙂
i try to eat things like these sandwiches and i just can’t. it’s partly the curse of working in the food industry. i tend to opt for ethnic mom and pop when i eat out.
here in MA there’s a chain called d’angelo that started as a small local sub shop. they were among the first to have pita bread. they had a vegetarian pocket that was the best- back when no one accommodated meatless diets. but they’ve been bought out by papa ginos and i haven’t been in one in over a decade. i believe at least here d’angelo predated subway and quiznos.
Quznos hands down.
Even though it sounds like the Subway guy is a nice guy and I assume the Quizno’s guy is not, I still like my Chicken Carbonara sandwich at Quiznos! But I will eat Subway as well.
Well, I used to, until I discovered JERSEY MIKE’s. And even though I’m from Jersey (born and bred; Exit 136), it wasn’t until I moved to CA that I discovered Jersey Mike’s (and I’ve been in CA since 1994 and I only discovered it in the last year!). Anyway, Jersey Mike’s makes subs the way I like it – lots of meat and lots of oil and vinegar.
So for a cold sandwich, I go to Jersey Mike’s. If I want my Chicken Carbonara, I go to Quizno’s. Subway is okay, but they don’t give a lot of meat and you have to pay extra for it. I like to taste MEAT on my sandwich, not just bread.
Oh my… Don’t they have Potbelly near you? Beats Subway and Quiznos hands-down. Though of the two, I prefer Subway. I just like their choices more.
Subway bites. Quiznos rocks. I get the outrage about your screwed up tax structure in CA but in Vegas we pay whatever the hell we want. The idiots who buy 5 dollar footlongs are the same people who jam to classic rock all day on fm radio. You’re buying $ 4.25 worth of bread and 75 cents worth of meat, cheese and veggies (all stale). For 3 dollars more you can eat a sandwich that truly satisfies. Quiznos is to Jimi Hendrix as Subway is to Michael Bolton.
Two words: Jimmy John’s.
I like them both.
But, I absolutely DESPISE McDonalds!
I remember seeing a sign in Ohio, saying if you order it “to go” (no sales tax) you cannot sit in your car in the parking lot and eat – since food consumed on the premises is taxed. I was glad to see Ohio cracking down on the criminal element.
If anyone harasses you for eating the food in the parking let, tell them you’re going to take it away like you said you would; it’s just that you’re putting it in your stomach for safekeeping during transport.
I guess I’ll learn to make my own damn sammich