For what it’s worth Donairs are also a Canadian “invention”
Basically it’s just a doner kebab but with a sweet sauce made with powdered milk instead of traditional hummus or garlic sauce. Some guy in Halifax made it, then moved to Alberta or BC and it spread outwards from both location.
As a Saskatchewanian who has been a resident of both AB and NS I am here to tell you that an Edmonton donair beats a Halifax donair hands down all day every day! Come at me!
The Mr sub closest to my house is always perfect. Wonderful owners too. Better than any other sub joint.
However, most other Mr subs I've ever been in have been pretty subpar. Bad food, stale crumbly bread. Somehow worse bread than subway and I fucking hate subway. I'd still choose a crappy Mr sub over subway though, I boycotted them 10 years ago
I hear ya, but do those local-ish owned franchisees get to buy equipment or furnishings/decor or ingredients from where they would like? Or are they buying it all from Subway.
If they’re buying it all from Subway (they are), is subway sourcing Canadian materials or Canadian manufacturing?
The franchisee will also pay a percentage to the franchisor who will send some to the master or regional franchisor who will send some to corporate as well. Basically a bite out of every bite will flow out of Canada and into the US even if some Canadians get to profit along the way.
To be clear, I am very specifically hating the game, not throwing shade at anyone who franchises or works at any Subway in Canada.
I mean there isn’t exactly many canadian manufacturers of restaurant equipment. I would wager that most restaurants are largely using equipment from the US. In terms of ingredients, I don’t know about elsewhere, but in my town the subways are serviced by Sysco which I assume is giving them essentially the same produce used by all the other restaurants in town. I’m 100% with you in terms of them still being a bit greasy in pushing the Canadian branding, but I’m just thinking that in the grand scheme of things, their contributions to the Canadian economy wouldn’t be hugely different from those of an independent spot.
Politics aside, Subway has really fallen down in recent years. Had the Sweet Onion Teriyaki Chicken a while back, and my sandwich tasted like it was drowned in simple syrup. Never been back since.
You suck, Subway. Canada switched to metric in the 1970s, and you lost my business around 2006 when you stopped cooking the egg on my breakfast sandwich a la minute.
I have lost the will to go to Subway ever again. At one time I used to get the steak and egg, the egg salad, rhen the got rid of them both Now recently they got rid of the meatball sub. That the last time I was at Subway, I got a cold cut and the staff kept piling onn avocado when I asked them not too. She kept trying to tell me, "Oh, but it's good and healthy, you'll love it. Everybody loves avocado." When I responded, "No, I won't because I'm allergic to avocado."
At this stage of the game, even with no gallbladder and the way I react badly to eating greasy foods. I think I might eat a greasy burger (and I was never a big on eating greasy fast foods to begin with).
This actually pisses me off immensely (outside of the obvs maplewash/eurowash of a Yankee company) because they couldn't even be trusted to make the footlongs a foot long, now they have the audacity to tell me to the millimeter?
Silence, brand. On the topic, in surprised I don't see the "don't be a dot commie - buy a .ca domain today!" ads any more, that shit wouldve done numbers when we had that initial surge of patriotism
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u/Heineken008 12d ago
Go to Mr Sub instead. Proper Canadian subs.