Subway pounded on Facebook for serving 11-inch foot-longs
A viral Facebook post reveals that a Subway foot-long sandwich was, in fact, a mere 11 inches. The company called it an isolated incident.
Subway, for example, prides itself on affordable foot-long sandwiches. Who can forget its earworm of a jingle: “five dollar, five dollar foot longs”?
So, when a customer in Australia on Wednesday measured his sub sandwich and learned—gasp—it’s only 11 inches, he posted a picture of the stunted sandwich to the company’s Facebook page with the comment: “subway pls respond.”
The company waited a day to respond, as the post garnered more than a hundred thousand “likes” in a matter of hours. Soon other jilted customers began sharing similar pics.
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