I knee-jerk reacted to Quiznos’ marketing campaign showing their steak sandwich being approximately 900 times bigger than Subway’s.  I drove across town to verify and was shocked to see that the Quiznos had moved out.  I never stepped foot in that location in the short time it was there, that should say something right there.  There are a couple  other “rumored” Q locations in town, but neither were worth exploring.  I was tipped off by old Five-Head Tagooch to go try Arby’s meatball sandwich and was denied the pleasantry because this location had not gotten them yet.  So this mission was a flop, as it should have been.

I started with that story because I believe that it may have cost me a relationship that I took for granted for years.  I remember to this day the first experience I ever had with a Subway.  I walked in (not knowing it was a chain at all) and tried to order a sandwich that was half meatball and half steak & cheese.  I remember now the dude trying to explain to my  lil’ guy self how I could get a 6″ of one and a 6″ of the other.  My thing was that I only wanted one sandwich.  That man hooked it up, so props to him for that.  It was probably 15 or more years ago when this happened.  From that day on those two sandwiches became my bread and butter.  Then one day I decide to test the waters for a better steak & cheese.  It was not the harmless “eating that because I am here anyway,”  I was on the prowl.

The next time I went to Subway, Steak & Cheese was nowhere to be found.  I did not do anything wrong, I did not cheat…but the intention was there and Steak & Cheese must have known it.  I asked the lady for the old faithful and she reached for what appeared to be a Steak & Cheese at first glance.  I look back over and it saw some chunks of meet with a bunch of peppers and such.  I asked and she told me Steak & Cheese is gone as I knew it.  Subway knee-jerk reacted to Quiznos too and launched a line of “Premium” sandwiches.  Jon Lovitz commercials contributed to the demise of a sandwich I have partnered up with well over 100 times.

Maybe I deserved this?  Maybe I caused this?  Maybe it really was time to move on?  Either way I am off to try and find a different Subway that will give me one last roll in the hay with my boo.