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.
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Next thing you know, they’re gonna tell us that McDonalds burgers aren’t really beef...
>>Next thing you know, they’re gonna tell us that McDonalds burgers aren’t really beef...<<
Or McNuggets aren’t chicken
“...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.”
Subway tuna is people!
Could be part chicken salad. Not so bad.
Or Soylent Green isn’t people.
That seems like the upside scenario here.
Jim Gaffigan calls it tuna gazpacho.
Old news, TV station sent Tuna sub off to a lab.
It’s tuna.
Move along, nothing to see.
Subway sucks, generally, but this sounds like a nonsense suit. The plaintiffs claim there’s no tuna in the tuna, but can’t tell us what is passing for tuna.
anal oil leakage
Haha! That’s funny about McDonalds! Ronald says they’re beef. So they’re beef. How do you think the McBurglar got his name? Come on man
With all the hoopla about fake “3D printed meat” lately, you’d think Subway would be overjoyed to have people think they are purveying fake fish. All they have to do is claim they “printed” it, they’d be seen as real innovators in the fake food industry and sales would go through the roof.
They can send me my royalty check for the idea c/o FR.
You can’t tune a fish.
>>Or Soylent Green isn’t people.<<
Winner! I humbly bow accordingly.
“Subway sucks, generally, but this sounds like a nonsense suit. The plaintiffs claim there’s no tuna in the tuna, but can’t tell us what is passing for tuna.”
Yes. It really doesn’t make any sense.
Do they serve roast bef and loobster?
 "Well, I thought they were tuna fishies!" |
I think it was Subway who was also caught selling spam as prime rib.
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