Is an 11-inch "footlong" Subway sandwich a fraud?

It is upsetting. What can you do? Give'm a inch, just hope they don't take a mile.

The whole Subway is a fraud. Bread sliced sideways and little meat is fluffed to appear like plenty.
Real sandwich has MEAT!

That's what I'm talking about.

It means they lied to us in their commercials!!!!!!!!! :D

i need that extra inch that i paid for

It's obvious that it was a MAN who thought it was really a "foot" long. They always think things are bigger than they really are!

LOL Maybe you might like my comment.

OH MY GOD YES. Why don't we all just go and sue Subway now?
*Note the sarcasm*

This is a crime against humanity.
*sarcasm mode*

A foot long hotdog is the same length, The dough before it is cooked is one foot, a quarter pound burger is the weight before cooking, etc. etc. lighten up people....

Subway markets their "foot-long" subs based on standardized weights and measures...which were standardized specifically to address this kind of problem. If they're deliberately delivering less than promised, then yes, that would technically constitute false advertising and therefore fraud.

That said, people who stand in line to buy Subway subs can see the sub being made in front of them, so they're well-aware of how large it is in visual terms before they pay for it. Especially considering it's intended for immediate consumption (it isn't, say, 1100 bushels of corn sold as 1200), it's hard for people to make a strong case that they were deceived about what they were buying.

Still, Subway should definitely rectify this problem: Either change the name, or make actual foot longs (at least on average, and indicate variability) and sell them for whatever price they can afford. They are not entitled to advertise a "five dollar foot-long" without actually delivering a five dollar foot-long just because customers "should know better."

I did that once. Met a woman in a bar. She asked me how long my Subway was. I said 12. Later she found out it was only 11. She was disappointed, too. Now, I no longer lie.

If you really think about it all the fast food comps. have not steped up to there so called "more bang for your buck", so i dont think it should be such a suprize that subways five doller foot long is not really a foot long.
they are trying to make as much money as they can while still makeing the public think that paying only five dollers for a sub that is not even a foot long as they claim.
So i really think that we are being scamed ... but really whos is going to take there time and measure thare sub, the go back and demand another inch of sub?
it would just be to much work for another inch add to your sub.
and in the end i know it is the moral of the whole thing but do you really think that McDonalds uses all white meat for there Mcnuggets? and even if they did how was the liveing conditions for the chicken before it was slaughterd? what was the foods given to the chicken to give it the nutrition it needed before it became what we feed our self? and how do they keep it fresh along the way? by harsh chimicals?
So if you go into a fast food place expecting them to tell you the truth more then they have to about there food and if you are really getting what you payed for then you will get very shocked to know how much they really are lieing to you.
thats why i say no because it apart of everyday life, for the big comps. to try and get as much money as they can out of you for as little as they can get away with.

A fraud of about two bites. I don't see why anyone would really care.

Okay...it may sound petty or trivial, but that little inch can represent MILLIONS of dollars in profits for Subway!! Just like when one of the burger joints decided to eliminate ONE pickle from their burgers a few years ago, and it resulted in millions of dollars in profits when spread out over the billions of burgers sold in a year.

And...if they are going to base their gazillion dollar marketing scheme on "$5 FOOTLONG"...then it should measure in at 12"!! Of course, they're also dealing with loaves of bread, and I would imagine that they bake differently, so one might be slightly shorter than 12". It's possible that this unlucky Aussie got the one loaf that came in under the required 12" that day, who knows?

It will probably end up being like the 1/4 Pounder uproar where someone weighed the cooked patty and found that it wasn't a full 1/4 pound of "beef"...so then they had to start advertising it as "1/4 pound, pre-cooked weight" Maybe Subway will have to start advertising their footlong with an asterisk that states "due to circumstances beyond our control in the baking process, some sandwich loaves may be slightly less or more than 12", but will average one foot"!! Sheesh!!

It is simply a name that was put on the sandwich. It's quite ridiculous that they are receiving an outcry over this. Chains that have food with too many preservatives and whatnot should be the ones receiving all of this outcry.

It is economics people, shear economics. Everyone says who cares about an inch, but think, this is a national chain, how much money do they save? Numbers below are just to get the point across.

Shaving off 1 inch from every foot-long roll does save a lot of bread. If a Subway serves 8 sandwiches per hour on average for 13 hours per day, how many inches of bread do they save by chopping them at 11 inches? Bonus: How many inches does that shop save from Monday through Friday?

Answer:
104 inches. Bonus: 520 inches – that’s over 43 feet!

From the Bedtime Math site.

Only in muurrricaaaa

Uh...the dude who started the fuss was an Aussie.

And it's been brought up in the US before...

Granted...fraudulent and/or misleading advertising is universal.

Not only are they lying about the size but they will sue somebody for using the term Footlong, even though it has been used by plenty of old company's have used it for foot long hotdogs for a long time. Also their three foot sandwiches are about a four inch lie. And their food is mediocre at best.

Yes, we need a full 12 inches so people will get fat and die more quickly.

Like you would even notice the missing inch without your measuring utensils!

only when it's not in the mood

So my 11 inch weenie isn't a fraud?

Maybe not, 11 inches isn't always a fraud you know?

Of course it is! That one inch makes all the difference!

...hahahaha XD

This is bogus. Look really carefully at the bun and the edges all around. It looks to me like the sandwich was crushed down having been set on end after being wrapped up.

It's a fricking sandwich.

The trick is to fluff the meat to make it look like a lot. There is nothing on the other side.

This is common place whatever the thing 1/4lb burger is made as small as possible within the margin law allows. And same with internet comcast gives speeds up to rather than speeds you will get. Unless 4 am on a work day and its not cloudy I will never get the speeds they advertise. It is everywhere this is nothing new.

Its rather frustrating for them to be allowed to advertise one thing sell us another.

true true but I think we need to clamp down on these lose advertising tactics. Unlimited data up to 120gigs use Switch to comcast today and get internet speeds up to 150mbs. 1/4llb burger before give you finished product. Or the 1terabyte hard drive with a capacity of 800 gigs.

Cause technically speaking I could say 500lb burger before butchered and cooked. We need to more definitely define the lines that seem to be getting crossed more and more everyday. When I bought a 40gig harddrive back in the day it was exactly 40 gigs same with internet i bought internet of a certain speed and more often then not thats what I got. If something was unlimited it was not unlimited up to a certain point.

Prices have gone up services down and wages have stayed the same or moved marginally for middle lower class. I remember buying brand new video games for 20 dollars and would always have a certain amount but now they cost 60 and sometimes I get a game that last me maybe 3 hours. internet was 15 bucks for speeds that were actually advertised and sometimes faster now I have to pay 120 just to have true unlimited but at a relatively slow speed. My 40 gig harddrive cost 30 dollars was top of line still in my internet only computer with no issues. My new harddrives last maybe a year two tops and cost 80 bucks.

If your HDs last you only a year, you should consider treating your PC a little bit better. Also, stay in tune with the times. Several IPs actually give what they offer. Virgin in the UK are a prime example.

As for the HDD size, blame the Americans. A kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, not 1,000!

Back to topic: it's not fraud. If you are fooled that's your problem. Why is an 11" sandwich not enough for you? I could understand if it was 6 rather than 12, but really
I don't understand this case.