Fast food in schools

[Jac1978]

Subway is due to open a unit in a Manchester comprehensive, which will only sell healthier sandwiches. The idea is to stop older pupils nipping out for junk food but what do you think?

Subway sounds good but I wouldn't call it fast food. Are they making up the sandwiches in advance?

I always thought Subway was at the healthier end of fast food. I don't think any of their sandwiches are particularly unhealthy and the salad is always fresh but the dressings/ cookies/ fizzy drinks are calorific. I'd love to see them offering a healthy meal deal six inch sub + fresh juice + something healthy as an alternative to the six inch + carbonated drink + crisps/ cookie one that they do.

DD wouldn't eat it I"m afraid. I would prefer Subway to some of the choices available at her new secondary school.

Never had a subway, but they're just sandwiches, aren't they? A sandwich can be healthy and you say they are only going to offer the healthier ones.

sounds fine to me.

my only experience of subway was disappointing - loads of processed meat and cheese and a tiny bit of salad

Like most sandwiches

I've had subway twice and both times it was utterly revolting.

And on top of being utterly revolting the ingredients tasted cheap and bad for you. It was not nice.

I would not want my children to eat it. Even on the ads it looks foul and many of their "subs" are full of fat and salt.

The other day on the telly someone said if they want sandwiches in a school why not get a local supplier to do it. And provide some employment for a small local business rather than going to a chain. that would be better I think.

i mean look at them

they are huge and the ingredients are cheap
maybe OK once in a while but not all the time
they'd be better off with "proper" sandwiches

Subway are delicious. Lots of choice in meats and salad toppings. Superb.

Gourmet

@ gourmet

I hope you are being sarcy!

article about how grim subway is in your fave publcation claig, the daily mail

Also what drinks will they be selling, what sides?

more here

doesn't look like it's going to happen

That Daily Mail article bears no resembalnce to the superb culinary standards of the Subway establishment that I frequent.

'As I left the store, a teenager walked in wearing her sports kit, from one of the local private schools. ?I?ll have a foot-long vegetarian patty with cheese and ranch sauce,? she said.

Sounds like another satisfied customer.

I've had it twice and it was pretty much inedible. All I could taste were salt, fat and grossness.

full quote:

"As I left the store, a teenager walked in wearing her sports kit, from one of the local private schools. ?I?ll have a foot-long vegetarian patty with cheese and ranch sauce,? she said.
In other words, 900 calories, 25g of fat and 4.4g of salt in edible Plasticine form.
I wanted to drag her out by her hair and yell at her that if she really cared about keeping fit, she should get down to McDonald?s instead."

I can't enter a Subway. The intense smell of dried oregano being pumped out onto the pavement outside is enough to repel me.

Their 'tub o meatballs'(probably NOT what's it's called on the menu' with a cheesy toastie thing is perfect for a bad hangover. But not for your arteries.

I think the correct description of the 'tub o meatballs' is a meatball marinara.
I haven't tried one of those yet, but with a name like that, I feel I am missing out!

why don't they just NOT let students off site during school hours?

Seems the easier option.

Fwiw I adore Subway and would have eaten them if they were avaliable at my secondary school.

'INGREDIENTS
An original. A comforting, splodgilicious Sub with tasty meatballs. It's certainly saucy.

Filling Allergens: Cow's milk, egg, soya, wheat, and gluten
For bread and sauce allergens see the Nutritional Information section.'

I won't go near it, because it contains soya. Unlike the Daily Mail reporter, I don't care about salt, it's soya that I steer well clear of.

Christ they are revolting. Really horrible stuff. They are marketed as a healthy choice but they are anything but.

And they stink.

No the tub o' meatballs is just that. A tub with some meatballs, sauce & cheese. No bread.

Sorry, pressed send too soon. They taste rather good but not healthy. And if you don't touch soya then they're definitely not for you.

I prefer making my own, but not on the rare occasions when I'm feeling pants.