Stupid Food Idea
 

Who/What was the genius behind the meatBALL sub?? Round balls of meat in lava-hot sauce and cheese FOLDED on flat bread...

I just had one; first one in my life.

Completely impossible to eat. I felt like Tony Manero, tying an entire bedsheet around my neck.

Sheesh! stupid idea!

and people who eat ice cream off a cone are just begging for it.

I like me a good meatball sub, but I do think they ought to cut the meatballs in half before putting them in the sandwich. A good meathemisphere sub. :yum:

Cut to the chase and have a meatloaf sandwich. :drool:

There are a number of foods for which the mess is part of the enjoyment. KC style ribs come to mind.

flat bread? That wasn't a sub. It was a meatball sandwich.

If you have trouble getting the big balls in your mouth, maybe you should try smaller guys.

Oh, I'm one of those bitches who just ignores the whole ball-et-all area.

What about the sausage? ;)

Hehe, that was the biggest laugh I ever got in the lunch room at work.

Dude: She's a juggler. Why does he want to go out with a juggler?
Me: Well he already knows she's got great ball-handling skills, so...

The meatball sub is the only one I like from subway. The rest just taste like crap.

I've never got meatball subs either I'm afraid.
Then again, there's a bit of the wet bread squickiness there for me in those.

When I worked in the bakery on Saturdays (pre-Cellar! Can you believe it!) the customers would feel cheated if I was off, because I used to cut the sausages in half when I made sausage cobs, and the other girls didn't bother. But that's because it just made sense to me - like not creating a pale yellow cliff of margarine in every sandwich. Bleurgh.

When I was poached from there to go and work at Whizzy Wheels, I still bought breakfast there and asked for what I wanted precisely. They knew me so they were happy to make it to order. Soft white sausage cob, brown sauce, no spread (I refused to call it butter) - and can you cut the sausages in half please? When the newest of the new girls started I decided to get my food from the deli instead. Why? She cut them in half the wrong way. I just couldn't face her again.

Whenever I go to Subway I stand there looking at the menu board and the little trays of yummy stuff...and then I order a meatball sub with extra cheese (toasted), olives, a little salad, on a 6" honey oat roll. Every time.

I lurve Meatball sub.

It is impossible to eat. Very messy and I get stressed out trying to keep the thing together. It is still the reason I go into Subway.

I rarely go to Subway, but I get the meatball sub too. However, I don't eat the bread much. Way too much bread going on. I just love the meatballs.

Griff is a Fighting Meatball, too...wonder what he thinks?

I usually end up leaving about a third of the bread.

I hardly ever lose a meatball from a sub -- but the lumpy nature of the filling does need a submarine sandwich roll to cradle the spheres. I just eat up to the meatball and bite off half at a time. Works great. The meatball sauce softening that bread gives each meatball its custom-fit pocket, and with the halves still attached, it mostly keeps 'em contained. Mostly. It's a sandwich that requires a table or something under it, just in case. I wouldn't eat one in the car.

Most of the sandwiches I get from Subway are the hot ones, more or less juicy too. Only sometimes do I go for the cold-cuts and veggies kinds.

Okay, as it's now the What I Order From Subway Thread :)
Given the money and no calorie considerations I always have a foot long Italian Cheese & Herbs with turkey, cheese (standard, not extra), untoasted with lettuce, onion, peppers, olives, gherkins, jalapenos (usually all the salad except cucumber & tomato) with a little Honey & Mustard and a little Chilli sauce, no salt & pepper.

And I always eat it all up and then wonder why fI put on weight :)

I have eaten at Subway twice in my life. Once back in high school, and again about 4 years ago. I have no idea what I ordered either time but I hate their bread.
Quiznos is better... I think I've eaten there 3 times.

Here's my great food idea! I just ordered from Outback Steakhouse online, to pick up on my way home. This is a total splurge for me:

Now that was a good food idea. Nom nom nom...all gone!

What did you have? I'm eating some wickedly spicy soup that Jigna (Dunkin Donuts lady) made. It's good but it's no Outback Special (med rare) with green beans and sweet potato...

I had a 9 oz filet, medium. Yeah, I totally splurged. I only ate a few of the fries, and the other side was more potatoes (garlic mashed) and those are both the rest of the weekend's meals. Oh, plus the mini loaf of rye bread. Waiting to eat that as well.

It was good. I did something nice for myself today, though I totally blew my weeks worth of salads!

Mmmmm I'm jealous... but you earned a treat. Shoulda got cheesecake with chocolate suace to wash that fillet down...

I was verryyyy close...:)

I got to the dessert page and clicked to see a description of Chocolate Thunder Down Under, or whatever it's called...then never got back to the right page.

I called it fate and went on.

I cannot STAND the smell of Subway. Makes my stomach heave...

Okay, now that's just strange.

Wait till you taste it!

:yelsick: Seems a helluva reaction to cold cuts... what is this? Me no understand.

There's some odor Subway pumps out that's complete barfville. I have no problem with any other sandwich store. I needed lunch one day and Subway was the only place around, so I went in, but there was a line and I had to leave before I got served ..but that was Ok because suddenly I didn't need to eat any more. I've eaten Subway and it's OK I guess, but someone else needs to go in and get it.

It's got to be that Subway "bread" that's barfing you out--there is way too much yeast flavor and mushiness going on there.

A meatball sandwich works best on a hollowed-out hoagie roll--toasted is wonderful, but does not have to be. A good roll ought to be chewy and crusty enough on its own to withstand the moisture of the sauce (or gravy, if you want to get all south philly) and the girth of the meatballs.

I will never get over wondering how Subway survives at all around here.

There is a different explanation for the smell.

sub = submarine = long and round and full of seamen.

The local sub shop here carves out the middle of the bread so the meatballs are cradled nicely in a pocket. They add cheese slices on the bottom so the sauce don't saturate the bread. Still messy but better.

Bread causes me distress. Atkins has a all meat meatball recipe that works nicely without wheat.

So it binds together and gets the true meatball texture with nary a breadcrumb? What does it use? I'm imagining anything from egg to cornstarch.