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DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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It's not unfortunate when you think of all the chickens that are needlessly slaughtered to appeal to people's unhealthy dietary laziness ^.^

They'd have to kill twice as many if it was 100% chicken.

Which is why it is fortunate that they use soy :)

personally i wish it was 0% chicken of course

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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Subway has become the supplier of subs at the lowest cost. What this means is that bean counters dictate what the subs contain. It's never top line products and they add fillers where ever they can without killing the flavor 100%. It's not a surprise that they use soy. It's just unfortunate that they have to get to this point. I don't know if it's universal but my local subway has reduced the diameter of the bread ro…

Nearly every gas station and general store in the land will sell you a much better sub for the same price or less than Subway charges for their aggressively mediocre products.

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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Smacks of conspirology and pseudo-science. Who cares if it's GMO? All food we eat is GMO. Non-GMO animals and plants hate to be eaten (well, most of them, some use being eaten as distribution strategy, but even those aren't targeting humans), and take measures to avoid it. That's why thousands of years ago humans started the project of genetically modifying them to make them more eatable. And we were spectacularly su…

Who cares if it's GMO? All food we eat is GMO. Sorry to break it to you, dude, but some people do care. And if all "food we eat is GMO", why are some labelled non-GMO and other, GMO?

Because of stupid antiscientific panic some people foment.

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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I order the burger as is, because I don't want to annoy the waiter or the cook, or me. I also don't eat the lettuce or the pickle, if they happen to come with. I'm not going to go down the list of what I will or won't accept for a burger and a 30 minute relationship. I don't know what you're getting at.

That you are incredibly wasteful if you throw away 50% of the calories you buy. Go to a place that sells a naked burger without lettuce if that's what you want.

The bun is neither 50% of the value nor 50% of the cost of a hamburger.

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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> And if all "food we eat is GMO", why are some labelled non-GMO and other, GMO? Because enough people believe - without compelling evidence - that foods which have had their genomes modified using modern methodologies are somehow more hazardous than foods which have had their genomes modified through millennia of selective breeding.

But what they're really saying, though, is we don't know enough about the GMO foods to introduce them into our diets. That using us as guinea pigs is not a good idea.

As if you "know enough" about other things you eat or drink. When was the last time a craft beer got FDA approval after 20 years of careful safety testing? When people stopped drinking sugary soda because that is poison fir you? When you had your steak dinner rigorously scientifically tested?

But no, you choose one thing that you can attach scary label to, and declare that because you didn't apply levels of scrutiny to it that you never ever had applied to your food, it is unsafe despite now decades of usage without any evidence of any trouble.

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> SOMA is the office district, with some apartment buildings added. Warehouse district is more accurate. And SoMa has shaped much of San Francisco culture. Maybe not the way we see it now, but without SoMa, many geeks and artists may not have settled here in the 90s. When you think of loft living in San Francisco, you think of SoMa. Dance parties? 1015, Mezzanine, Cat Club, DNA Lounge, etc. Spaces for who don't parta…

They eat their microwave dinners at home instead :P

..in their tiny micro-studios. :(

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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That you are incredibly wasteful if you throw away 50% of the calories you buy. Go to a place that sells a naked burger without lettuce if that's what you want.

The bun is neither 50% of the value nor 50% of the cost of a hamburger.

I said none of things

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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The bun is neither 50% of the value nor 50% of the cost of a hamburger.

I said none of things

You said it is "incredibly wasteful" to throw away 50% of the calories. The value is relevant to the question of waste, yes?

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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I said none of things

You said it is "incredibly wasteful" to throw away 50% of the calories. The value is relevant to the question of waste, yes?

Are you asking me if the 50% figure is accurate? Because it is.

Re: DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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You said it is "incredibly wasteful" to throw away 50% of the calories. The value is relevant to the question of waste, yes?

Are you asking me if the 50% figure is accurate? Because it is.

No. I'll try again.

If you order a salad and eat the greens, but not the dressing served on the side, you just wasted 90% of the calories. See the point?

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