Subway Sandwiches chicken about 50% actual chicken

[madoka]

This is going to hit them in the nuts if they don't get on top of this report fast.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/a8991060/whats-in-subway-chicken-soy-protein/

Here's something that will ruin Subway chicken sandwiches forever: The "chicken" they're serving is allegedly only 50 percent chicken, according to a DNA test. Yes, someone gave a piece of Subway chicken a DNA test, and it's like an episode of Maury with the chicken and the Subway sandwich and Maury's like "you are not the father, sort of." I love science!

The brain behind this Canadian study — which you probably wish you could forget now, but you can't, sorry — is researcher Matt Harnden, from Trent University's Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory. In addition to testing the poultry at Subway, he tested the poultry from five other fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Wendy's, which were found to be between 86 and 90 percent chicken. FYI, according to the study, only an unadulterated piece of chicken from a store should come in at 100 percent chicken DNA. Things like seasoning, marinating, or any type of cooking — all part and parcel of the fast food business — brings that number down. (So, basically, it's not expected that a piece of chicken from a fast food restaurant would come in at 100 percent chicken.)

That being said, the result of Subways 50 percent chicken DNA was very low compared to the other chains — so low, in fact, that researchers tested it twice. Subway's oven-roasted chicken came out to be 53.6 percent chicken, and their chicken strips were found to have only 42.8 percent chicken. So, what's the rest of the DNA? Soy. The protein from soybeans is often used as a replacement for animal protein.

 

[Crono]

Textured soy protein tastes just like chicken... but I'd wait to hear more to see if it's true.

In a second statement, spokesperson for Subway told NBC that the allegations are "absolutely false." Subway says "Our chicken is 100 percent white meat with seasonings, marinated and delivered to our stores as a finished, cooked product." Subway is now calling on the researchers to correct the report:

"We have advised them of our strong objections. We do not know how they produced such unreliable and factually incorrect data, but we are insisting on a full retraction. Producing high quality food for our customers is our highest priority. This report is wrong and it must be corrected."

 

[nakedfrog]

Subway chicken sandwiches were already ruined.

 

[Drako]

Newsflash.

Subway is horrible.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think Subway has already come out and said they're looking into it and that they were supposed to be getting basically full amount real chicken, insinuating that their supplier might be fleecing them.

I like Subway, they're obviously not spectacular, but it appears their chickens are coming home to roost. Jared, the "foot is a marketing term not a measurement" fiasco, and now this. Although plenty of it like the "their bread contains chemicals used in yoga mats" is just dumbasses pushing the "OMG chemicals!" "if I can't pronounce it, I won't eat it" idiocy that is enabling shit like homeopathy and other bullshit to get a resurgence.

I wonder if someone didn't contact them about their honey mustard. After moving, it seems like the honey mustard down here is different. It used to be a light colored creamier variety that I highly doubt was really mustard (and considering the only condiment I've seen/tasted that was similar was some "sandwich shop honey mustard" flavor of mayo). Now this is more like the honey mustard you'd find pretty much anywhere (kinda golden brown color, more liquid/runnier). Surprisingly the taste isn't really too different.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

This is going to hit them in the nuts if they don't get on top of this report fast.

Why? That's great news, it's 25% more than I would have guessed.

 

[OverVolt]

Subway is actually a great company IMO.

Their lunchmeats are treated with vitamin C to reduce nitrosamine formation although you aren't required to by law for lunchmeant, only hot dogs.

Its kinda like Hillshire farms vs Oscar Mayer. One makes healthier lunchmeat than the other but I won't get into it. Research vitamin C in preserved meats yourself and figure it out.

Generally speaking... their food sits very well with me and is generally made pretty wholesome compared to anywhere else.

Sheetz lobbies against a trans fat ban and you guys are worried about Soy Filler.

Subway is healthy for the money, which may not necessarily mean delicious, but I'm energized and full after I eat it. But seriously all you have to do is get those weird chicken things on your sub (I never do) to realize its not a slice of breast meat straight off the chicken. You certainly don't need a DNA test that is overkill.

 

[OverVolt]

Why? That's great news, it's 25% more than I would have guessed.

Lol pretty much

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Who knew fast food was crap?

 

[Sonikku]

Doesn't subway use an ingredient right out of yoga mats in the US?

 

[Rubycon]

Doesn't subway use an ingredient right out of yoga mats in the US?

Rats apparently. Every subway I've ventured into has lots of 'em.

Perhaps (in the future) they will do just that.

 

[Kaido]

This thread is making me miss Quiznos

 

[MrSquished]

I've not eaten at Subway much and not in years. I've never had a hot sandwich there but I've tried various cold sandwiches. Absolutely disgusting. It's the worst fast food I've ever tried in my life.

 

[Kaido]

I've not eaten at Subway much and not in years. I've never had a hot sandwich there but I've tried various cold sandwiches. Absolutely disgusting. It's the worst fast food I've ever tried in my life.

It's funny how I vacillate...I swore off Taco Bell over a decade ago, but I had some last year & it's actually pretty good again! But I swore off Subway a year or two ago...even their snazzy TurboChef ovens couldn't save them

 

[Crono]

I'm okay with Subway. It's not like one goes there expecting gourmet meals. Haven't been to one in a while, but their veggie delite sub is my usual go-to vegan meal if I'm on the road or at a mall and I'm hungry.

 

[louis redfoot]

I'm okay with Subway. It's not like one goes there expecting gourmet meals. Haven't been to one in a while, but their veggie delite sub is my usual go-to vegan meal if I'm on the road or at a mall and I'm hungry.

yeah, i'll eat it, but not my favorite. a footlong cold cut combo with everything on it is what i usually get.

 

[Svnla]

I used to like SW but since they make the bread skinner, I haven't been back much, probably less than once per month. Plus the price increase ($6 foot long) did not help.

 

[MrSquished]

It's funny how I vacillate...I swore off Taco Bell over a decade ago, but I had some last year & it's actually pretty good again! But I swore off Subway a year or two ago...even their snazzy TurboChef ovens couldn't save them

I too swore off Taco Bell for years but then went back. I only eat three things there - soft taco supremes, meximelts and mexican pizza. not even sure if they have the pizza anymore.

 

[Ns1]

I'm not even sure how 50% soy protein is possible in this context

 

[Carson Dyle]

I'll bet most chickens today only have about 50% chicken DNA.

 

[Crono]

I'm not even sure how 50% soy protein is possible in this context

I doubt it's hard to blend defatted soy/textured soy protein and mechanically separated chicken, or whatever process they use for a chain like Subway.

 

[zerocool84]

On those special days that they have $6 subs, that's when I go. I never pay more for more meat so it's practically a veggie sandwich since they put so little meat in their sandwiches.

 

[RossMAN]

This thread is making me miss Quiznos

Very sad, we used to have around 23 Quizno's they're all gone now.

Back in the day they were delicious esp their original formula clam chowder (shout out to @ShotgunSteve).

 

[Linux23]

When corporations started calling their food a product, that is when all hope in humanity was lost.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Why are people going "well duh" when Subway is literally claiming their chicken is 100% chicken with seasoning?

I've not eaten at Subway much and not in years. I've never had a hot sandwich there but I've tried various cold sandwiches. Absolutely disgusting. It's the worst fast food I've ever tried in my life.

I don't get this. You literally tell them what to put on it and watch them prepare it, so either you're telling them to put something you find disgusting on it or you're one of these modern "I only eat tomatoes right off the vine in my own garden, so every other tomato is literal shit in my mouth" hyperbolic wankers. Also baffling is that you say its the worst fast food you've had in your life and yet you ate there several times? It's not like they're using drastically different ingredients for different sandwiches, so getting something different isn't going to change things much. Also that means you've likely eaten at most other fast food places more times than that (but then we live in a bizarre world so I could see someone not liking a place but eating there more often than they eat at places they do like...), and somehow never had as bad of an experience? Did you happen to go to the subway in your city and just go "yeah I'd like a foot long" and then someone said "you want mayo?" and then whipped out their dick?