Have you tried their new prime rib sub yet? Every time that commercial comes on it makes me hungry even if I've just finished eating. I've never eaten at Quizno's since we don't have one in our town. There's one in the next town over, we just haven't made it there yet.
If I never see another Subway again it wouldn't bother me at all. When I worked in downtown Dallas there were 2 Subway shops in the tunnel. It was easy and fast to get one of their sandwiches to go where you could be in your proper place...at your desk. I've never really liked spending money on cold sandwiches when I go out to eat since I can do that at home. When I go out to eat I want to eat something I'd have a hard time duplicating at home.
I've probably eaten at Subway a total of 7-8 times and of those times, I've gotten sick twice. I have absolutely no desire to take a chance again plus I just don't think they taste all that great.
When I was growing up in Houston we used to eat subs from Antone's. Now they made a great sub! I haven't had one in years and don't know if they're still in business or not. When Antone's first opened they were the only shop around that sold imported meats, cheeses, spices, olive oil and baklava. Antone's was also the first place I ever ate a dill pickle I liked.(probably because their pickles had garlic as well as other spices)
Is this thread about sandwiches or subway trains? LOL, they must mean "po'boys"!
Antone's is alive and somewhat kicking. The family had a fight and split their territories, after they had expanded to every known place of business selling food in the city of Houston. I could've had an Antone's cooler of sandwiches in my house, I'm sure, if I'd called them up!
They may be back to more normal now, I don't know. I never eat them anymore. As they went up from $2 ($3 for a Super Red Wrap!) to $7-8, the meat content went down, down. Of course, it doesn't really matter because it's the RELISH that makes 'em!
I used to practically live on them "back in the day" - my favorite was the least popular one - the Piggy Boy. I can taste it now. It was ground up salami, lots of herbs, onions, garlic, for the spread, then some slices of pepper cheese, then provolone and salad peppers and mayo. I could eat two big ones! I never did, but I *could* have. Yum, yum, yum.
Somewhere along the line while I was away in OK, they started making them with ground ham instead of salami and they were awful. I wish I could duplicate the old Piggy Boys at home, but have never found the right salami to grind that tastes right.
In my 20s, I would buy Antone's Super Red Wrap poor boys and slice them into 8ths or more for hor d'oeuvres when friends came over and those were always the first thing to disappear. Most people loved them. At $8, I'm not enamored anymore. They are in all the grocery stores and elsewhere--might be a tad cheaper in their own storefronts. The atmosphere is pretty much totally gone - not like the Voss store we've talked about before.
I don't eat many sandwiches for a foodie, so can't really critique much. I intensely dislike bread and always remove at least the top one--with Antone's, I had to make sure to scrape the relish off onto the filling, though! I believe I've eaten in a Subway twice. Got a tuna salad once which was unremarkable and don't recall the other. It was just a meeting place with an old friend and the food wasn't important. I haven't ever gone there on purpose.
There was a little hole-in-the-wall deli on Fondren I used to work near that made the best tuna subs I've ever had. That was the first place I saw them squirt the Italian salad dressing on top of the filling, like they do in all of them now, I think. Theirs were just tuna mixed with some mayo to spreadable, some shredded lettuce, then the wonderful dressing, some thin sliced onions and some pepper cheese slices, with a little mustard and mayo on the top bread. Fantastic. Never found any others like those.
The best bread I've had was at Schlotzky's, though the sandwiches themselves didn't impress me. I've never been to a Quizno's. I love muffulettas, especially the olive salad that goes on them and I like pressed sandwiches, paninos, or things on ciabatta bread (tho I haven't tried any of Jack's) as long as I make them at home and usually open-faced.