Comments on: Love your body, except when we need you to hate it in order to sell you stuff

By: other orange

other orange — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:31:24 +0000

That commercial made me want a cheeseburger.

Seriously. Because I like cheeseburgers. I don’t like Subway, and now I have the additional baggage of knowing that Subway hates fat women like me. So hell, it’s cheeseburger o’clock ! I know my own life and my own mind, and for them to suggest otherwise is insulting.

By: AB

AB — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:54:17 +0000

Sorry – my larger point being, Jared can certainly decide to live his life thinner by subsisting on Subway. I’d rather eat all the fabulous foods just blocks away, and keep my fat ass!

By: AB

AB — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:52:13 +0000

I’m sitting here at work literally two blocks from “Jared”‘s Subway, right here in the heartland. Our little college town has dozens of fine delis, ethnic restaurants, pizza joints stocked with whole wheat crust and plenty of veggie toppings, etc., etc. Why, the Siam House down the street has a super-cheap, packed with tofu Thai lunch buffet! I don’t know how Jared ate at that hellhole Subway twice a day, because I can tell you from experience it sucks ass just like the rest of the chain.

Even if you’re feeling lazy, you can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by your own damn self. It’s cheaper, packed with beneficial fats, and available in less time than it takes to get the attention of the guy behind the Subway counter. And it doesn’t come with a side of mysogyny and fat hatred!

By: Sniper

Sniper — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:55:19 +0000

I can’t even think of Subway Jared without adding the phrase “cock-punch-needing”. Thanks, The Onion!

By: kate

kate — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:30:32 +0000

This all reminds me I need to get a stew going in the crock pot for this week’s lunch portions. I usually make a soup or stew, put it in the fridge in a sealed container and scoop out what I need into a thermos, after I’ve heated it good in the microwave.

Since I don’t have access to a micro at work (I take lunch in my car), the thermos keeps the meal at least palatably warm and by the time lunch comes around I’m famished so I don’t care too much anyway.

Buying your lunch everyday can add up to quite a lot of money and nutrional loss to boot. I gained a boatload of weight one year going to a diner every lunch time with a co-worker. Even if you think you’re ordering conservative you still could do better making your own lunches.

And yeah, Subway bread always smells weird and i second Hector’s comment about the cold cuts, they are far from ‘fresh’ and also nutritionally no good, loaded as they are with salt, nitrates and tons of fat.

By: tinfoil hattie

tinfoil hattie — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:29:56 +0000

Plus, the guys selling the food are not exactly “jareds” themselves, now, are they?

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:13:52 +0000

‘Only eight grams of fat?’ Jesus, that’s a lot of fat for a sammich.

One tablespoon of mayonnaise has 12 grams of fat. Sammiches’ll get you if you don’t watch the person making them carefully.

By: Hector B.

Hector B. — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:39:06 +0000

I don’t understand how a sandwich made with sodium-infused lunchmeat can be described as “fresh”. Hot dogs would be equally fresh.

By: mipa

mipa — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:52:24 +0000

Terrible commercial, but I do enjoy Subway sandwiches. There aren’t really delis where I live so I don’t have much choice. Pitas are a much healthier option though, and there are a couple of pita places. And yes Jill, everything that is wrong with your life (and mine) is law school’s fault. Seriously.

By: zuzu

zuzu — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:52:42 +0000

Also re: Jared: If you eat the same damn thing every day for months on end, you’re shortchanging yourself nutritionally. You may very well lose weight because you’re consuming fewer calories, but you’ll end up malnourished.

Especially when it’s something awful like Subway.

As for cooking, I do it on weekends, make big batches, and portion and freeze the extras. Many workplaces have microwaves, and even if they don’t, you can make stuff that doesn’t need to be reheated. I just need to take stuff out of the freezer far enough in advance so it will thaw, but it winds up being grab-and-go.

I save myself a ton of money that way, too.