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Originally Posted by nik-
I've eaten there several times. Hearing that a specialty, high end sandwich place is better than a fast food franchise isn't exactly earth shattering.
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Is it as earth-shattering as you letting us know that Subway lets you pick the toppings, as I was originally commenting on? If you're going to get all het up about my laughing at the idea of people carefully picking out the least crappy of the ingredients to make a sub, at least mention the condescension and arrogance instead of harping on some "master of the obvious" schtick that you yourself were first to employ.
Anyway, if people were aware that quality isn't found at fast food franchises, how would Timmys dominate the market? People DON'T generally perceive the difference, or else mass marketed mediocrity wouldn't win out over small businesses that cost a little more for a much better product. Marketing works, people are lazy thinkers and just go with what they know and assume it must be good because it's popular, and how would it get to be popular if it wasn't good?
Personally, I am cool with the idea that my favourite franchise eating place, Wendy's, objectively has burgers that are nowhere near as good as somewhere like Burger Inn or Boogies. If someone tells me that a Baconator is really a crappy mass of salt, grease, and bread, I'd fully agree and munch away anyway, not bothering to try and argue that it's the food that keeps bringing me back there. It's habit, marketing, and giant doses of sugar and fat shocking my reptile brain with positive messages despite myself.
I laugh at Subway connoisseurs, you can laugh at my incipient heart attack, everyone gets to laugh and all is good..