I think shitting on Americans for every little thing they handle differently is moronic but I will say I won’t ever order food that’s advertised as “footlong”. That’s just needlessly gross. I don’t like to imagine the cashier lining up a sandwich with their bare sole for quality control but that’s the kinda mental image the term conjures up.
Footlong sandwiches have nothing to do with the body part “foot”.
They hardly have anything to do with the measurement “foot” since they are like 10.5 inches (~26cm) now or something (as opposed to the 30ish centimeters that make a foot).
I’m like 60% sure during the height of subway in mid-2000s-early 2010s the subway commercials actually did advertise the foot long as being 12 inch sub’s for 5$ (goddamn the 5$ foot long ads were catchy). However unlike real measurements that have defined standards, as subway enshitified they weren’t forced to change naming as they slowly shrank the sandwiches. Of course this is long enough ago that an entire generation doesnt know who Jared was so its okay to assume it was never a real foot long.
Some shit doesn’t make sense though which seem to be done for no discernible reason, like how keys have to be inserted upside down and move away from the door to lock it, or how fridge doors open from the other side, or how morons are elected to become the president
I think shitting on Americans for every little thing they handle differently is moronic but I will say I won’t ever order food that’s advertised as “footlong”. That’s just needlessly gross. I don’t like to imagine the cashier lining up a sandwich with their bare sole for quality control but that’s the kinda mental image the term conjures up.
Wait to you find out how they measure the 6 inch ones.
Well that explains the shrinkflation
I was in the pool!!
When you’re in the pool, there’s shrinkage!
Do women know about shrinkage?
Footlong sandwiches have nothing to do with the body part “foot”.
They hardly have anything to do with the measurement “foot” since they are like 10.5 inches (~26cm) now or something (as opposed to the 30ish centimeters that make a foot).
This is part of the enshittificaton of Subway.
Their cookies are still dope tho.
I’m like 60% sure during the height of subway in mid-2000s-early 2010s the subway commercials actually did advertise the foot long as being 12 inch sub’s for 5$ (goddamn the 5$ foot long ads were catchy). However unlike real measurements that have defined standards, as subway enshitified they weren’t forced to change naming as they slowly shrank the sandwiches. Of course this is long enough ago that an entire generation doesnt know who Jared was so its okay to assume it was never a real foot long.
It’s Footlong® not foot-long. Not to be confused with an actual measurement or size guarantee.
How about a sandwich shop where you can order a Big Italian?
Well if it’s a sandwich shop you’d really need two Italians, even big ones.
Some shit doesn’t make sense though which seem to be done for no discernible reason, like how keys have to be inserted upside down and move away from the door to lock it, or how fridge doors open from the other side, or how morons are elected to become the president