Stupid Food Idea

Trilby · 02-12-2009, 12:36 PM

Who/What was the genius behind the meatBALL sub?? Round balls of meat in lava-hot sauce and cheese FOLDED on flat bread...

I just had one; first one in my life.

Completely impossible to eat. I felt like Tony Manero, tying an entire bedsheet around my neck.

Sheesh! stupid idea!

and people who eat ice cream off a cone are just begging for it.

Happy Monkey · 02-12-2009, 12:43 PM

I like me a good meatball sub, but I do think they ought to cut the meatballs in half before putting them in the sandwich. A good meathemisphere sub.

Pie · 02-12-2009, 01:07 PM

Cut to the chase and have a meatloaf sandwich.

dar512 · 02-12-2009, 01:13 PM

There are a number of foods for which the mess is part of the enjoyment. KC style ribs come to mind.

footfootfoot · 02-12-2009, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

Who/What was the genius behind the meatBALL sub?? Round balls of meat in lava-hot sauce and cheese FOLDED on flat bread...

I just had one; first one in my life.

Completely impossible to eat. I felt like Tony Manero, tying an entire bedsheet around my neck.

Sheesh! stupid idea!

and people who eat ice cream off a cone are just begging for it.

flat bread? That wasn't a sub. It was a meatball sandwich.

Sheldonrs · 02-12-2009, 01:58 PM

If you have trouble getting the big balls in your mouth, maybe you should try smaller guys.

Trilby · 02-12-2009, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

If you have trouble getting the big balls in your mouth, maybe you should try smaller guys.

Oh, I'm one of those bitches who just ignores the whole ball-et-all area.

Sheldonrs · 02-12-2009, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

Oh, I'm one of those bitches who just ignores the whole ball-et-all area.

What about the sausage?

Undertoad · 02-12-2009, 02:54 PM

Hehe, that was the biggest laugh I ever got in the lunch room at work.

Dude: She's a juggler. Why does he want to go out with a juggler?
Me: Well he already knows she's got great ball-handling skills, so...

Aliantha · 02-12-2009, 03:27 PM

The meatball sub is the only one I like from subway. The rest just taste like crap.

Sundae · 02-12-2009, 03:41 PM

I've never got meatball subs either I'm afraid.
Then again, there's a bit of the wet bread squickiness there for me in those.

When I worked in the bakery on Saturdays (pre-Cellar! Can you believe it!) the customers would feel cheated if I was off, because I used to cut the sausages in half when I made sausage cobs, and the other girls didn't bother. But that's because it just made sense to me - like not creating a pale yellow cliff of margarine in every sandwich. Bleurgh.

When I was poached from there to go and work at Whizzy Wheels, I still bought breakfast there and asked for what I wanted precisely. They knew me so they were happy to make it to order. Soft white sausage cob, brown sauce, no spread (I refused to call it butter) - and can you cut the sausages in half please? When the newest of the new girls started I decided to get my food from the deli instead. Why? She cut them in half the wrong way. I just couldn't face her again.

DanaC · 02-12-2009, 06:05 PM

Whenever I go to Subway I stand there looking at the menu board and the little trays of yummy stuff...and then I order a meatball sub with extra cheese (toasted), olives, a little salad, on a 6" honey oat roll. Every time.

I lurve Meatball sub.

It is impossible to eat. Very messy and I get stressed out trying to keep the thing together. It is still the reason I go into Subway.

Shawnee123 · 02-12-2009, 06:07 PM

I rarely go to Subway, but I get the meatball sub too. However, I don't eat the bread much. Way too much bread going on. I just love the meatballs.

Griff is a Fighting Meatball, too...wonder what he thinks?

DanaC · 02-12-2009, 06:10 PM

I usually end up leaving about a third of the bread.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-12-2009, 09:07 PM

I hardly ever lose a meatball from a sub -- but the lumpy nature of the filling does need a submarine sandwich roll to cradle the spheres. I just eat up to the meatball and bite off half at a time. Works great. The meatball sauce softening that bread gives each meatball its custom-fit pocket, and with the halves still attached, it mostly keeps 'em contained. Mostly. It's a sandwich that requires a table or something under it, just in case. I wouldn't eat one in the car.

Most of the sandwiches I get from Subway are the hot ones, more or less juicy too. Only sometimes do I go for the cold-cuts and veggies kinds.

02-12-2009, 12:36 PM	#1
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Stupid Food Idea Who/What was the genius behind the meatBALL sub?? Round balls of meat in lava-hot sauce and cheese FOLDED on flat bread... I just had one; first one in my life. Completely impossible to eat. I felt like Tony Manero, tying an entire bedsheet around my neck. Sheesh! stupid idea! and people who eat ice cream off a cone are just begging for it. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

02-12-2009, 12:43 PM	#2
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I like me a good meatball sub, but I do think they ought to cut the meatballs in half before putting them in the sandwich. A good meathemisphere sub. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-12-2009, 01:07 PM	#3
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Cut to the chase and have a meatloaf sandwich. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

02-12-2009, 01:13 PM	#4
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	There are a number of foods for which the mess is part of the enjoyment. KC style ribs come to mind. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

02-12-2009, 01:58 PM	#6
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	If you have trouble getting the big balls in your mouth, maybe you should try smaller guys. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

02-12-2009, 02:54 PM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Hehe, that was the biggest laugh I ever got in the lunch room at work. Dude: She's a juggler. Why does he want to go out with a juggler? Me: Well he already knows she's got great ball-handling skills, so...

02-12-2009, 03:27 PM	#10
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	The meatball sub is the only one I like from subway. The rest just taste like crap. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-12-2009, 03:41 PM	#11
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I've never got meatball subs either I'm afraid. Then again, there's a bit of the wet bread squickiness there for me in those. When I worked in the bakery on Saturdays (pre-Cellar! Can you believe it!) the customers would feel cheated if I was off, because I used to cut the sausages in half when I made sausage cobs, and the other girls didn't bother. But that's because it just made sense to me - like not creating a pale yellow cliff of margarine in every sandwich. Bleurgh. When I was poached from there to go and work at Whizzy Wheels, I still bought breakfast there and asked for what I wanted precisely. They knew me so they were happy to make it to order. Soft white sausage cob, brown sauce, no spread (I refused to call it butter) - and can you cut the sausages in half please? When the newest of the new girls started I decided to get my food from the deli instead. Why? She cut them in half the wrong way. I just couldn't face her again. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-12-2009, 06:05 PM	#12
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Whenever I go to Subway I stand there looking at the menu board and the little trays of yummy stuff...and then I order a meatball sub with extra cheese (toasted), olives, a little salad, on a 6" honey oat roll. Every time. I lurve Meatball sub. It is impossible to eat. Very messy and I get stressed out trying to keep the thing together. It is still the reason I go into Subway.

02-12-2009, 06:07 PM	#13
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I rarely go to Subway, but I get the meatball sub too. However, I don't eat the bread much. Way too much bread going on. I just love the meatballs. Griff is a Fighting Meatball, too...wonder what he thinks? __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

02-12-2009, 06:10 PM	#14
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I usually end up leaving about a third of the bread.

02-12-2009, 09:07 PM	#15
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I hardly ever lose a meatball from a sub -- but the lumpy nature of the filling does need a submarine sandwich roll to cradle the spheres. I just eat up to the meatball and bite off half at a time. Works great. The meatball sauce softening that bread gives each meatball its custom-fit pocket, and with the halves still attached, it mostly keeps 'em contained. Mostly. It's a sandwich that requires a table or something under it, just in case. I wouldn't eat one in the car. Most of the sandwiches I get from Subway are the hot ones, more or less juicy too. Only sometimes do I go for the cold-cuts and veggies kinds. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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