Posted on 02/14/2021 6:37:27 PM PST by simpson96
Subway describes its tuna sandwich as “freshly baked bread” layered with “flaked tuna blended with creamy mayo then topped with your choice of crisp, fresh veggies.” It’s a description designed to activate the saliva glands — and separate you from your money.
It’s also fiction, at least partially, according to a recent lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges the ingredient billed as “tuna” for the chain’s sandwiches and wraps contains absolutely no tuna.
A representative of Subway said the claims are without merit. The tuna sold at the chain is wild-caught, the company says, which is how the vast majority of tuna is harvested. Only a tiny percentage of bluefin and yellowfin tuna is farmed.
The star ingredient, according to the lawsuit, is “made from anything but tuna.” Based on independent lab tests of “multiple samples” taken from Subway locations in California, the “tuna” is “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet have been blended together by defendants to imitate the appearance of tuna,” according to the complaint. Shalini Dogra, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, declined to say exactly what ingredients the lab tests revealed.
“We found that the ingredients were not tuna and not fish,” the attorney said in an email to The Washington Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Parts is Parts!”
In what species?
Beyond Tuna! It’s vegan!
Yeah, right. I have eaten the tuna sandwich many times. Looks like tuna, tastes like tuna...it must be tuna.
Sometimes, the customer knows it’s ‘enhanced advertising’, but they chose to buy it anyway.
For example: I like Imitation Crab every so often.
I know it’s not the real thing, but it tastes good and is very affordable, so I don’t care.
It also stays safe to eat for a long time, even when unfrozen.
But you can tune a salad?
I also like imitation crab. Don’t know what it is, but it tastes great. I’m not fond of meat salads as a rule, but imitation crab salad is wonderful.
Good grief. Now they’ll take it off the menu. Why don’t people just order something else. So many jerks living in the United States.
Agree 😉
This claim has been debunked. LeeAnn Applewhite of Applied Food Technologies in Florida, a lab that specializes in conducting DNA testing of fish, tested three samples and confirmed it is tuna.
It probably IS tuna fish.
The real story here is Subway ain’t no Subway!!!
Tuna-gate !!!!
When did subway know and when did they know it?
My complaint with Subway is the meat is so thinly sliced it’s like not there al all. I always have to get double meat (what a scam) to taste the meat.
It’s a bread sandwich with slightly limp veggies.
I like Arby’s and In-And-Out Burger
I eat at subway all the time
Mostly the veggie patties. Sometimes the tuna. It’s TUNA for sure !
Their bread is great. And they make it right in front of you
Now with 70% more dolphin!!!
But, what about Subway locations actually located in the United States?
Alaskan Pollock and seasoned Surimi paste.
Could be part chicken salad. Not so bad
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No chicken in their tuna. This I know because I eat their tuna and don’t puke my guts out.
The Washington Post again shows how incompetent its reporting is since they didn’t list the so-called “ingredients” alleged in Subway’s tuna, something that should have been found on the original lawsuit complaint.
Somebody is lying, covering up, or totally incompetent. Perhaps all 3 and its’ not just the plaintiff and their possible frivolous and criminal extortion lawsuit.
I also like imitation crab. Don’t know what it is, but it tastes great.
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Its processed hake - a formerly garbage fish. Process was finalized in the 90s, making some people a lot of money.
Here is a bigger story than fake tuna salad:
That the WaPoPo decides to run a story based entirely on an email from the lawyer of the (unknown) plaintiff.
They toss in a random quote from the company's PR firm, to make it seem "balanced".
The new kids in "journalism" are just lazy shills looking for a bad byline in a crummy bar.
And this puff piece ran after being reviewed by the WaPoPo editors?
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