Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:25:48 -0800, Golden California Girls wrote:
>
>> On 12/1/10 1:32 PM, Retirednoguilt wrote:
>>> On 12/1/2010 9:49 AM, Golden California Girls wrote:
>>>> On 11/30/10 8:30 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>> Does anybody else cringe when they walk or drive by a Subway
>>>>> sandwich shop?
>>>>>
>>>>> The bread does NOT smell appetizing at all. It doesn't even smell
>>>>> like real bread. And I don't know what else they got going on in
>>>>> there during various hot sandwich promotions but it doesn't mix
>>>>> well with whatever else they got going on in there.
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't eaten at Subway since Channingway Court in Columbus,
>>>>> Ohio in 1997 and the stench coming from these places guarantees I
>>>>> won't be eating there anytime again soon.
>>>>
>>>> Of course it stinks outside. Required pollution control equipment
>>>> on the ovens to reduce greenhouse gasses.
>>> You've got me curious. According to what you say, the pollution
>>> control equipment must be converting the flue exhaust to other
>>> chemicals (that smell foul to some people) rather than absorbing
>>> the pollutants in the flue exhaust (in which case there would be no
>>> odor). So, what chemicals are coming out of the pollution control
>>> equipment that smell foul but are not polluting?
>>
>> Pollution is what the government requires smokestack tests for.
>> Ususally things like oxides of nitrogen, ozone, unburned
>> hydrocarbons, or visible carbon (soot). Since Subway now does eggs,
>> there is a ready source of sulfur. A incorrectly designed or
>> operated after burner (pollution control equipment) could easily
>> pump out oxides of sulfur or hydrogen sulfide. Not the best smells
>> in the world. Of course this may have nothing to do with his nose.
>> Perhaps he has a reaction to some cleaning substance they use.
>
> Are you talking about my nose?
>
> No, I just think they food they cook in there smells nasty. It's
> the ingredients they use,not any sort of scrubbers or cleaning
> agents. It's the store that stinks, not the exhaust.
>
> Bread baking is not supposed to smell like that.


I agree. They have them inside Radiant / Marathon gas station / convenience
stores here sometimes. I wince when I walk into one.
I remember walking into one such store a long time ago and asking the girl
behind the non-Subway counter WTF that nasty smell was. She told me it was
the bread and she could hardly stand to work there since they put the Subway
in,.

For a killer sub here*, Publix can't be beat. Just a few dollars more for a
footlong, and the bread is toothy and natural tasting. No stench in or
around their stores either, and they bake a lot more bread daily than a
Subway.

*Tampa area, Florida
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