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Kosher School Kids Can Now Nosh on Subway Sandwiches

by David Koeppel, Posted Nov 4th 2009 @ 1:00PM

Subway veggie sandwich. Photo: mariecannabis, Flickr.

Three years ago, the first kosher Subway restaurant opened in Cleveland -- and even company pitchman Jared Fogle showed-up for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Since then, Subway has gone on a kosher franchise binge, opening nine restaurants (11 by the end of the year) in markets like Miami, Los Angeles and Brooklyn, N.Y. Now at least four of those franchises -- Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cleveland and Rockville, Md. -- are trying to convince local religious academies to bring the six-inch sub into school cafeterias.

So far it's been slow going. In Los Angeles, kosher Subway co-owner Jonathan Sedaghat is in negotiations with three area private schools to serve Subway sandwiches on a weekly basis for as many as 300 students. Most of his school business so far has come from Yeshivas ordering heroes for special occasions like field trips, sports events and orientations. The menu consists of turkey, roast beef, salami or bologna low-fat subs (290 calories, 30 calories from fat) with sliced apples and potato chips. The franchise charges between $5 and $7 a lunchbox, depending on the order.

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Florida man reports forgotten condiment to police

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by Marisa McClellan, Posted Aug 5th 2008 @ 2:03PM

It's a familiar story. You go to your local deli or lunch spot for a nice turkey on wheat or roast beef on a roll. You give your order clearly, patiently wait for your sandwich, pay for it and settle down to eat. Often the sandwich is just as you ordered, but occasionally, you don't get quite what you asked for. When faced with that situation, most of us choose to either 1). eat the sandwich, even though it wasn't quite what we wanted or 2). take it back and ask that it be fixed.

Reginald Peterson of Jacksonville, FL made a different choice last week. He ordered a sandwich at his local Subway shop and, when he noticed it was missing the sauce he requested, he pulled out his cell phone and dialed 911, so that he could report his forgetful sandwich makers to the police. The officers arrived and, when they weren't able to convey to Peterson that missing sauce on a sandwich wasn't an appropriate use of 911, they arrested him for making false 911 calls.

Obviously, this was not an appropriate use of the 911 system. However, I am curious how the rest of you handle it when your order comes out incorrectly. Do you say something or does your need not to make a scene win out?

[via Breitbart.com]

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Serrated knife found baked into Subway sandwich

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by Marisa McClellan, Posted Jul 16th 2008 @ 5:29PM

Remember those old cartoons, in which one character would bake bolt cutters or a file into a cake, pie or loaf of bread, so that another character could bust out of the joint? I remember being highly entertained by those animated antics as a kid. However, as one New York man discovered recently, it's not nearly as amusing to discover something baked into your lunch in real life.

Bizarre objects found in food(click thumbnails to view gallery)

On June 27th, John Agnesini of Astoria, NY was sitting down to a foot-long Subway sandwich when he noticed a few bites in that something just didn't taste right. Feeling something hard on the bottom of his bread, he turned over the sandwich to discover that a 7-inch serrated knife was baked into the bread on which the sandwich had been made. He was sick for nearly three hours after eating that small portion of the sandwich.

Subway refuses to comment on the incident and Agnesini is currently suing the chain for $1 million.

What would you do if you found a foreign object in your food?
Pull it out and keep on chowing down	191 (2.9%)
Let the management know and ask for a refund	2718 (40.9%)
Take a bunch of pictures and call a lawyer	3732 (56.2%)

[via New York Post]

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