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On Jan 24, 12:39 pm, Dave wrote:
As everyone knows, the USA has a lot of weight to lose. Most of it
stems from the fast food society, a culture that we seem bent on
exporting throughout the world. This does no one any good.

I think it is a SHAM the way that certain fast food corporations treat
the consumer who is trying to eat healthy. Let's use Quizno's as an
example of what I mean here.

I'm sure you've been to one of these restaurants. It's basically a
Subway with a toaster in the middle, and the sandwiches taste
relatively good although they have been criticized for the excessive
calories and fat count in most of their sandwiches. And, of course, it
goes without saying that they really push their side orders of chips
and large soda drinks as well.

But I personally never felt bad about Quizno's until their recent
round of advertising. They are now pushing a flatbread sandwich they
call the "Sammie." Have you seen these ads? The photographs are
guaranteed to get you into their franchises, especially if you are
watching calories and trying to eat healthy. There's a photo in your
Sunday paper of a Sammie Grilled Chicken Balsamic sandwich . . . the
sandwich is literally bursting at the seams, stuffed with 12 or 13
visible chunks of grilled chicken, a ton of lettuce and tomato, and
right above it -- in giant letters -- ONLY 200 CALORIES.

That, my friends, is one of the most blatant shams I've seen in a long
time.

The ad drew me into my local Quizno's franchise, where I ordered the
above sandwich and then sat there in disbelief looking at the tiny
little thing that I was served. Yes, the sandwich you GET might be
only 200 calories. The guy making the Sammie used what appeared to be
a teaspoon to dole out one level spoonful of a lettuce and tomato mix,
on top of what were 6 or 7 small bites of chicken. All of it very
carefully measured onto a tiny round piece of bread. (The sodium
content of the balsamic dressing was off the charts, giving this
little appetizer sized "meal" an overly-salty and unhealthy flavor.)

I'm a consumer advocate, so I called the 800 number on the door of my
franchise with a complaint. Oddly, the number was right below a giant
photo of the sandwich I was eating - or, I should say, the sandwich I
THOUGHT I'd be eating.

They have "never gotten a complaint about this before" according to
the Quizno's representative I spoke with. When I later spoke to the
franchise owner, he told me that he hears this same concern from
everyone, and agrees 100% with me that this is unorthodox advertising.

Looking for truly healthy and low-cal food in a fast food restaurant?
Look further than Quizno's. Those folks are false advertisers, at
best.

Dave

Full text article above extracted fromhttp://shamvswham.blogspot.com/

Right. They serve a lot of high cal, high fat food. Subway is the
same. You can order a veggie sandwich with supposedly 230 calories
with 220 of those coming form the bread. Still, I doubt that this is
accurate. I think it is over 300 calories judging from the size of the
bread. I know for a fact that their bread is not a standard size to
begin with. Once in S. Padre Island in a Subway, I experienced a
veggie that was about half the size of my local Subway's bread. The
tiny portion probably would give you a 220 cal sandwich, with the
larger one yielding perhaps 350 calories. I mean I know that a regular
slice of bread has... anything from 40 to 120 cal. per slice with the
40 cal coming from Lite Bread with added fiber and lower fat to get
the calories to rock bottom. Subway's is likely closer to the 120 cal
per slice...except it is thicker and larger than a slice of bread, so
the 230 cal for the veggie sandwich if probably way off. They don't
even try to hide the calories in their meatball sub which is over the
top with fat and calories. The word "wheat bread" has essentially no
meaning either, since it is not whole wheat bread. It is essentially
white bread with a little whole wheat thrown in. Still, th


e veggie is
the only reasonably healthy thing I see on Subways menu. People love
their fat and calories and even allow themselves to be dupped into
thinking they are eating healthy when they aren't I'm afraid. dkw

If you believe that, why not buy some Subway sandwiches, weigh them, and
file a complaint with the FTC. The adverse publicity would help people
understand.

230 calories is like 2 or 3 slices of bread, however.