I'm not saying he is lying but he found a 7" sandwich in a 12" sandwich that was cut in half. It seems that if the knife was there it should have been sticking out an inch somewhere. Even if it was diagonal it would have poked out a bit.

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Being originally from South NJ, I have to wonder why someone in NY would eat at a Subway in the first place. Isn't NJ, PA, and NY covered in REAL sub shops?

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So what is he suing them?

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can someone explain to me how it made him sick? The person probably didnt bake it into the bread but was in a hurry and closed the sub with the knife in the middle. It posed him no harm or health code violation, this guy is obviously got Jackie Chiles as his lawyer.

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The threat to him was his mouth being sliced by the knife and germs from the knife (though this is a stretch).

As for how a 7 inch knife could fit in 6 inches worth of bread without sticking out? Easy! It was at an angle, both horizontally and vertically.

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An unlikely stretch. Any germs on a knife used to makes subs would be on every other sub made. As far as cutting his mouth, I dont think he would have gotten past one chomp on that thing. It may not have been pleasant, but I think most people would have laughed in disbelief and have gotten a gift certificate out of it. How does this guy think he deserves one million dollars from this?

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"He was sick for nearly three hours after eating that small portion of the sandwich."

He got "sick" from thinking about the threat of his mouth being sliced open? The germs on the knife (which wouldn't have been that harmful anyway) would have been killed by when the bread was baked, and it's not like he ingested part of the knife.

Not saying Subway isn't completely in the wrong here, but this guy seems to be overplaying his hand a little bit, no?

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The bread isn't that thick to begin with, how would a worker not notice that there's something seriously wrong with the bun?

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First of all...I would like to know if anyone out there has ever gone to a subway and not have there sandwich cut in half??? Second...If that was the actual sandwich with the knife baked inside then how come it didn't look bitten from? It looked torn apart. So if the sandwich was not bitten from how was the outcome food poisoning?????? And I would also really love to know how he didn't feel the weight of the knife in the bread lets all be honest subway sandwiches do not have substance to them. Am I just crazy or is anyone else with me on this one?

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As others have pointed out, there's a lot to this story that doesn't ring true. (he just happened to have a camera with him too?) When bread is kneaded (either by hand or by machine) a knife in the dough would have been quickly apparent. So unless some crazed subway worked shoved the knife in after the loaf was set for baking (unlikely!) I suspect that this one is going to go the way of the "finger in the chili" story a few years back, faked for bucks.

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He got sick because it was a toasted sandwish and the plastic handle melted into the food.

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My husband used to work at Subway. Since they bake the bread on-site, it's entirely possible for an employee to have misplaced the knife. As far as the knife not sticking out of the 6-in. sandwich half, I have no idea how that would have worked. But that does look like the type of knife they use, and it does look like it's been baked into bread.

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It would be nice if people realized that mistakes happen and they didn't try to capitalize every time one happened to them. Regardless of if it was really there, which the photo seems like it might be, even though I, like everyone else, wonder how it didn't stick out when the bread was cut in half. All the law suits out there make me sick. IN fact, hearing about this guy suing them for a million dollars made me sick for the last three hours. Does anyone think I have a good case to sue him for making me sick?

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@heather: "How does this guy think he deserves one million dollars from this?"

Easy. He's American.

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My theory is that the knife was left on the baking sheet (or in the pan, if it's baked that way) and the dough was placed on top, then baked. It is conceivable, don't think this guy is running a scam, but a mil? C'mon...

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The same thing happened to me except it wasn't baked in it was just left in the sandwich ! I didn't know what to do so I just kept the knife , it's a sharp little sucker .

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if the knife was baked into the bread wouldn't it have been found when the employee making the sandwich cut the bread open to make the sandwich? especially a 7 inch knife baked into a sub roll that would then be cut in half after the sandwich is made. it seems to me that knife would have been found by an employee before it ever reached a customer's plate.

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Phony baloney. Or... tuna, as the case may be. This has "brass ring lawsuit" written all over it. Reminds me of the "finger in the bowl of Wendy's chili" scam a few years ago. BOGUS!!!

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One time I got a used band-aid in my sub from subway. I noticed it on the girl's thumb as she made my sandwich and found it a while later in my second bite. ugh.

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I am the manager of a subway, so I am going to clarify a couple things... First, we use frozen breadsticks, which we let rise in something called a "proofer" then we put the bread directly in the oven to bake. A knife never gets near a sandwich until somebody requests one; at that time, we cut the bread and place the meat, etc, inside. If there was a knife in his sandwich, which IS possible, it was not there when the bread was baked. It could not have been. It may have been carelessness on an employee's part during the sandwich building process, but not during baking.
That being said, though, I have to say that mistakes happen. Sometimes people aren't as careful or as diligent as they could be, and a hair, or a piece of subway paper or whatnot gets into the sandwich. At this point, we refund the money or offer a new sandwich. Had there been a knife in the sandwich, the manager/ employee on duty would have been quick to rectify the situation. A million dollars is a ludicrous amount of money for a mistake that hurt no-one.

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