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According to lawsuit, Subway’s tuna sandwiches contain “no scintilla of tuna”

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> “Our restaurants receive pure tuna, mix it with mayonnaise and serve on a freshly made sandwich to our guests.” In a statement to the New York Post, a Subway spokesperson called the allegations “baseless” and “frivolous.”

That's an unusually strong statement for them to make if it's untrue, there's not much wiggle-room there.

A lot could have happened in the 22 years since I worked for subway... but that was exactly how we made it. One very large cans of tuna and like half a gallon of mayonnaise.

Frankly I'm annoyed that I wasted time on this article. Flagged.

True, it could be summed up in one sentence, but it's not insubstantial. Subway has a history of... blunders, so to say, so it makes sense to watch them more closely - even though I really doubt this particular case is true.

Sardines, herring and mackerel are better for you anyways. It'll be hundreds of years before Subway sells a sardine sandwich.

so, Subway doesn't contribute to depletion of tuna? But somehow they are not being applauded in this article.

no, quite the contrary. Subway contributes to the depletion of humans. They're woke and they don't know it.

Yes those social justice warriors are just looking for things to indict and have a feeling of power.

That or they are complaining that a tuna sandwich doesn't have the advertised ingredient.

Yeah. One wonders why this product being vegetarian is not advertised that way.

I don’t think anyone has suggested that it’s vegetarian. Could be mystery meat.

Tuna aren't a single species, most of them are not endangered. The one you would usually use in sandwiches or salads for example is the albacore or skipjack tuna which is not endangered. Bluefin is critically endangered.

(Edit: Saw that albacore is now "near threatened")

IIRC back in 2013 when the horse meat scandal was bubbling in the news and DNA testing meat was all the rage, I read a headline that Subway chicken meat was aledgedly found out to only be one third chicken, the rest being soy. My initial though back then was pretty much the same.

Sadly, I can't find the "one third" claims any more, closest I can find right now are several "less then 50%" articles with addenda from around 2017[1][2][3].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/whats-in-subways-chi...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-fo...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680...

I wonder if their “tuna” could be vegan in that case

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