Most days I go to Subway near my office and pick up a sub. Whether meatball or ham, I always get Swiss cheese – my favorite cheese – to go with it. All of a sudden they stopped stocking swiss. So I went to another Subway, assuming this was localized to just the one store. Turns out Subway has stopped stocking Swiss cheese, period.
What the hell?
Has anyone heard about this? Outrage! I’ll be taking my business to Quizno’s.
UPDATE: So I contacted the Subway people and they responded this way:
In order to consistently provide satisfaction to our customers by offering high quality food with exceptional service that is a good value, we must continuously review our menu and the ingredients that we use.
Occasionally, we find that some items are not popular, some have declined in overall popularity, some are in short supply or are difficult to work with. In order for us to make room on our menu and in our restaurants for new and exciting foods, we must sometimes choose to not offer or discontinue items from the national menu. Some locations may continue to offer discontinued items as a local item.
We understand that this sometimes makes a customer’s favorite food
unavailable. Please be assured that there are still many other great tasting items at your local SUBWAYR restaurant. Perhaps one of them may be your new favorite.I apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate you taking the time to
contact us. SUBWAYR looks forward to your continued visits.
Quizno’s is better anyway.
Provolone, bitches
I always suspected you were an East Coast French Communist! What’s wrong with Cheez Whiz from the Applebee’s Salad Bar?
I’m with the Godless Jew up top. Go and partake in the wonder that is the pepper bar.
Swiss Cheese is elitist. You should order AMERICAN and be proud of it. And NO SHARING CHIPS…that’s godless and communist!
BTW, OW, here’s your answer:
“Swiss is the most expensive cheese out of all the ones we carry. As a market, swiss is the slowest seller and we constatntly have requests for pepper jack. You will not find swiss in any Subways in our area. Sorry.”
He doesn’t say where he’s from, but I assume the reasons are similar corporate-wide.
They stopped selling mozzarella at all their stores a while ago, too. I think because generally mozzarella is pricier than other standard cheeses. And that just blows my mind. They sell a chicken parmesan sandwich, for chrisssakes. What else do you PUT on an ANYTHING parmesan? If you say provolone you should die in a fire.
My local Subway stopped carrying swiss over a year ago. When I asked why I got the “too expen$ive” answer. Now if I go there I just don’t get cheese on my sandwich.
How can Swiss be more expensive? It’s mostly holes.
In my experience, all American cheese sucks. You guys don’t have the pride in cheese that the French have.
O, this might be your most important post ever. I don’t see this anywhere else (not even DRUDGE!). An OBVIOUS sign of media bias in this election cycle. Keep breaking the news the MSM is afraid to touch!
Eric
You guys don’t have the pride in cheese that the French have.
Get some blue cheese or Oregonzola from the Rogue Creamery in Southern Oregon and say that again.
I tried provalone. It is naaaaasty. American cheese only tastes good on hamburgers to me.
Oliver, you have just been disowned from the family for that comment on provalone!
I don’t like blue cheese, and I don’t like a bit less bland cheese (like many american cheeses). I love a nice mature cheddar (don’t care where from) and Wednesleydale with cranberries in it. I’ve always found Subway subs a little disappointing.
…I also heard that due to the economy, McDonald’s is reducing the slices of cheese in its Double Cheeseburger from two to one (seriously).
Dawnpoetic there is my cousin. This is splitting families apart.
It’s interesting, one of the things that I miss about America is the ready availability and low price of cheese. Here in New Zealand dairy prices went up steeply during the last two years. On top of that cheeses like mozzarella and particularly provolone are rare and much more expensive, maybe because we don’t have a large Italian immigrant population. Pepper jack doesn’t even exist here.
BUT! New Zealand dairy products are delicious! If you ever have a chance to have a bit of New Zealand butter it has a beautiful flavor. And some of our regular cheeses taste much better then some fancy American ones.
You should have been going to Quizno’s all along anyway. How am I going to explain to my children that cousin Oliver is a…dare I say it… provalone hater??
I used to work at a Subway maybe 15 years ago. At that time, they had yellow American and white American. That was it. Since then, I think people have come to expect more from a wich shop. Competition is a good thing. Speaking of wiches and competition, I now fully support Which Wich for president of sandwiches.
If you want liberal cheese, try Reggiano with some left wing naturally leavened bread.
I do like a nice bit of Gorgonzola.
Couldn’t tell you why Subway isn’t selling Swiss but my guess would be cost. Swiss is expensive for some reason, you’d think it would be cheap with all the holes in it. I just bought a 1/2 pound of the stuff for some soup I’m making and it was 2.5x pricier than the same brand cheddar.
It’s hard to imagine mozzarella as expensive, since it’s one of the easiest cheeses to make.
WHO WILL TELL THE CHILDREN?
I found out this lunchtime they’d stopped offering Swiss, when I tried to get some on my veggie delite.
Then I got home and found that David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who.
One by one, the things that make life bearable are being taken away…
My friend owns a pizza restaurant. Believe me, mozzarella is outrageously expensive, making it hard for my buddy to stay in business.
I know, David leaving was truly upseting.
How do they expect us to wacth anew Season if we are familiar with any of the main cast?
Subway = nastaaaay. Wet flobbery meat slapped on squishy bread, yick. Jimmy Johns all the way!
Mmm, Jimmy Johns.
A.
As a former Quizno’s franchisee, or, as I call myself, “a victim of Quizno’s”, I recommend Jimmy John’s or Priddyboys’s. Not Subway, for God’s sake.
Swiss? I was under the impression that the un-dyed cheese at Subway was simply called “swiss” to distinguish it from the orange-dyed cheese. It never tasted like actual swiss cheese to me.
Wensleydale.
on a somewhat related note, i have discovered that the buttermilk donut at dunkin’s donuts has been discontinued, at least in the chicago area. i was told this by a worker at both of the locations i frequent (there are at least 6 stores within 2 blocks of my office in the loop). a co-worker didn’t believe me and went to a third, much larger store, where he thought presumably they would still have it, but alas, no buttermilk donuts. this is a great tragedy and a petition needs to be started immediately to bring them back!
Mike, you’re right. New Zealand butters/cheeses are lovely. We have lots of them in the UK/ (also lamb).
Wallace, I even lived near there a few years back, yet I still add that extra ‘d’.
Seriously, you guys need to export the real cheese, not the strips of bright orange plastic that taste of a Scotchguarded carpet only the Scotchguard was MSG.