Subway not selling regular Pepsi

Brae100

I visited my local Subway and ordered two subs, went to order the drinks and ordered and Pepsi Max and a regular Pepsi and was told that they no longer offer any non-diet drinks. Asked if I could get a Pepsi from the machine, but was told that the machine was also diet-friendly and saw that the regular Pepsi button had been replaced with a second Pepsi Max.

F%ck you Subway. If I want a drink with sugar in it, I will make that decision for myself.

verycool

My cats breath smells like cat food.

Cee-Jay-Cee

It’s probably part of the reason Subway is in decline all over the world. They think they know what people want but they haven’t a fücking breeze. I hate diet drinks with a passion, I’m not on a diet so why the fcuk would I want to drink one?

AllForIt

verycool wrote: »

My cats breath smells like cat food.

If you cooked a cat would it smell like cat food?

EPAndlee

Pepsi is just sad coke

bazz26

Those pesky people of Subway with their healthy soft drinks. :pac:

gandalf

They don't serve real bread either. I honestly don't see the attraction eating in subway the taste and texture of their "food" is rank and the smell of it makes me gag whenever I walk past one.

Brae100

What sort of business meeting went on where the consensus was, let's reduce the choice of product to the customer?

I hate the taste of diet drinks. I don't want to drink them, ever. This is a business turning away customers because it won't sell them a product that the customer wants.

McMurphy

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

It’s probably part of the reason Subway is in decline all over the world. They think they know what people want but they haven’t a fücking breeze. I hate diet drinks with a passion, I’m not on a diet so why the fcuk would I want to drink one?

Is it really?

Seems like there's a new one opening up in every street corner tbh.

Imo, all the other delis and what not try to emulate them, badly.

Hard to beat a good subway, meatballs, cheese few pickles and olives and the absolute icing on the cake, jalapenos.

Don't scrimp on the southwest sauce either yo. :cool:

As for the diet drinks, give me coke zero over ordinary coke all day every day.

Odhinn

Brae100 wrote: »

F%ck you Subway. If I want a drink with sugar in it, I will make that decision for myself.

Not under Sharia law you won't

testicles

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givyjoe

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Is it really?

Seems like there's a new one opening up in every street corner tbh.

Imo, all the other delis and what not try to emulate them, badly.

Hard to beat a good subway, meatballs, cheese few pickles and olives and the absolute icing on the cake, jalapenos.

Don't scrimp on the southwest sauce either yo. :cool:

As for the diet drinks, give me coke zero over ordinary coke all day every day.

Subway Def on the decline, I'm starting to see them close down rather than open up. Even the one in Liffey valley went tits up. Cant beat a burrito, that and chopped (which you can beat) are seemingly still the two massive growth foot joints.

jaxxx

testicles wrote: »

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Ah the good old sugar tax.... Politicians claiming in their infinite wisdom that it's being brought in to try and tackle obesity, when in reality they don't actually give a f*ck about obesity and it's just another form of income. F*cking b*st*rds, hate them, because Lucozade now tastes like donkey pi$$!

Grab All Association

testicles wrote: »

Sugar tax is the reason. They just couldn't be bothered having different prices for different drinks

Yep that’s why. Tbh the sugar free drinks taste way better imho.

Think of this. You’d have to drink 139 x 330ml cans of zero sugar Coca Cola to match the calories in 1 330ml can of regular Coca Cola and that’s excluding the 29g of sugar.

Type 2 diabetes (reversible condition btw) is bankrupting the HSE. Sugar tax didn’t go far enough imho. Chocolate and fast food should be taxed too.

givyjoe

Grab All Association wrote: »

Yep that’s why. Tbh the sugar free drinks taste way better imho.

Think of this. You’d have to drink 139 x 330ml cans of zero sugar Coca Cola to match the calories in 1 330ml can of regular Coca Cola and that’s excluding the 29g of sugar.

Sugar tastes good, ergo, ipso fatso, you're wrong.

Brae100

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Is it really?

Seems like there's a new one opening up in every street corner tbh.

Imo, all the other delis and what not try to emulate them, badly.

Hard to beat a good subway, meatballs, cheese few pickles and olives and the absolute icing on the cake, jalapenos.

Don't scrimp on the southwest sauce either yo. :cool:

As for the diet drinks, give me coke zero over ordinary coke all day every day.

Subway is declining hugely. After my non-diet drink trauma I did a bit of reading and discovered that the Subway franchise is in huge decline. This nonsense about not offering non-diet drinks is apparently part of their new mission. Load of old bollocks.

https://nypost.com/2017/10/22/subway-scrambles-to-understand-plunge-in-sales/

I didn't know we had a sugar tax
Pepsi max is nicer anyway, never liked full sugar drinks

bazz26

#pepsitoo.

anewme

givyjoe wrote: »

. Cant beat a burrito, that and chopped (which you can beat) are seemingly still the two massive growth foot joints.

No idea what a growth foot joint is?

Chopped seems to be opening up in place of Subway in a lot of spots but offering the same poor quality food with no providence. .

EPAndlee

Grab All Association wrote: »

Yep that’s why. Tbh the sugar free drinks taste way better imho.

Think of this. You’d have to drink 139 x 330ml cans of zero sugar Coca Cola to match the calories in 1 330ml can of regular Coca Cola and that’s excluding the 29g of sugar.

Type 2 diabetes (reversible condition btw) is bankrupting the HSE. Sugar tax didn’t go far enough imho. Chocolate and fast food should be taxed too.

People need to take responsibility for their own diets

JCX BXC

Won't be having subway again!

Diet drinks are rancid, you can taste the artificial from miles away.

Brae100

bluewolf wrote: »

I didn't know we had a sugar tax
Pepsi max is nicer anyway, never liked full sugar drinks

Yes, it will be active from the first of May. A previous poster said that the Subway decision was probably based on avoiding the hassle of pricing their drinks differently. Subway have always had a single price for every drink. Will be interesting to see how McD and BK address this.

Professor Moriarty

jaxxx wrote: »

Ah the good old sugar tax.... Politicians claiming in their infinite wisdom that it's being brought in to try and tackle obesity, when in reality they don't actually give a f*ck about obesity and it's just another form of income. F*cking b*st*rds, hate them, because Lucozade now tastes like donkey pi$$!

You drank donkey piss? I doff my hat to you.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Grab All Association wrote: »

Type 2 diabetes (reversible condition btw).

Been there, reversed that and agree with you 100%.

JCX BXC

Brae100 wrote: »

Yes, it will be active from the first of May. A previous poster said that the Subway decision was probably based on avoiding the hassle of pricing their drinks differently. Subway have always had a single price for every drink. Will be interesting to see how McD and BK address this.

To be honest it's not an extreme fee, it's 10c for 330ml and 15c for 500ml. I'd imagine the smart firms who have standardized prices for drinks will simply raise the price of the meal by say 10c to cater for the cost. In essence this just probably damages the diet (****e) drinks, as people will think of the full sugar alternative as more expensive and hence desireable and want that.

They could say +15c for sugar drinks but to be honest I don't see McD or BK as particularly health concious.

beefburrito

I knew a guy once his name was Pepsi....
A bit of an intriguing geezer..

Always looked like he used talcum powder like snuff or something

I wonder how Pepsi is now.....

givyjoe

anewme wrote: »

No idea what a growth foot joint is?

Chopped seems to be opening up in place of Subway in a lot of spots but offering the same poor quality food with no providence. .

What I mean is, kind of, an industry or rather specific niches of one in this case growing rapidly.. two of which being burrito places (still) and healthy food options, i.e chopped. Both being food joints.

Edit: I just realised I type foot joint. Valium is kicking in

givyjoe

EPAndlee wrote: »

People need to take responsibility for their own diets

1000% agree. I'm infuriated by the idea of having to pay more for tasty **** because of people who lack self control In their diet.

I say infuriated, mildly irked probably.

EPAndlee

Everyone is paying for the fact Carol from finglas can't keep the wispas out of her mouth

Brae100

JCX BXC wrote: »

To be honest it's not an extreme fee, it's 10c for 330ml and 15c for 500ml. I'd imagine the smart firms who have standardized prices for drinks will simply raise the price of the meal by say 10c to cater for the cost. In essence this just probably damages the diet (****e) drinks, as people will think of the full sugar alternative as more expensive and hence desireable and want that.

They could say +15c for sugar drinks but to be honest I don't see McD or BK as particularly health concious.

Ok. If the sugar tax is no real issue, why have Subway stopped offering non-diet drinks? What's the thinking behind it? I'm an adult and am capable of making dietary decisions for myself. What sort of nonsensical food seller has decided what they will or will not sell their product to me? I can no longer buy a Subway meal with a drink. You can have this sandwich as part of a meal, but only if you choose a drink with artificial sweetener.

FanadMan

Johnny Dogs wrote:

Hard to beat a good subway, meatballs, cheese few pickles and olives and the absolute icing on the cake, jalapenos.

Used to live beside a Subway and was a regular customer. Went in one day and was chatting to the server and mentioned that I had a sore tum.......she refused to add jalapeños But guess that's just the joy of small town life lol

JCX BXC

Brae100 wrote: »

Ok. If the sugar tax is no real issue, why have Subway stopped offering non-diet drinks? What's the thinking behind it? I'm an adult and am capable of making dietary decisions for myself. What sort of nonsensical food seller has decided what they will or will not sell their product to me? I can no longer buy a Subway meal with a drink. You can have this sandwich as part of a meal, but only if you choose a drink with artificial sweetener.

I never said it wasn't an issue, it just won't have the desired affect. It's certainly an issue for businesses, especially those with standardized pricing on soft drinks.

Why did subway do it? God knows, seems like a truly stupid business decision to be honest.

Mr.H

Diet drinks are worse for you! Idiots

dhaughton99

Aspartame causes cancer.

Mr.H

Well to be fair it "causes cancer" rather than causing cancer. It's not proven or disproven.

But its still not god for you. I like subway but won't he going back there now. I'll tell them on social media first so they realise the impact of their decision.

Too many fad diets rulling sentiment these days

ceadaoin.

Pizza hut and some wetherspoons in the UK are doing the same apparently.

Artificial sweeteners taste disgusting and the long term health effects aren't known although evidence suggests they contribute to obesity and not the opposite. I won't be drinking them.

Luckily though I live in the good ol US of A where I can never see chains like subway doing this. I enjoy them once in a while, I'm not overweight and don't have any health problems, the same as most people who consume these drinks in moderation. Let people make their own choice

Mr.H

ceadaoin. wrote:

Luckily though I live in the good ol US of A where I can never see chains like subway doing this. I enjoy them once in a while, I'm not overweight and don't have any health problems, the same as most people who consume these drinks in moderation. Let people make their own choice

Exactly. I consume fast food regularly but I am just under 12 stone and 5ft 8. Technically that is "overweight" but I don't look fat in any way.

Like anything, moderation is important and a personal responsibility

Outlaw Pete

Main reason is cost..............

Here's a graph on the price of sugar in comparison to artificial sweeteners.

ted1

Brae100 wrote: »

What sort of business meeting went on where the consensus was, let's reduce the choice of product to the customer?

I hate the taste of diet drinks. I don't want to drink them, ever. This is a business turning away customers because it won't sell them a product that the customer wants.

The one where they include free drinks with meals and it’d cost them extra money to pay the sugar tax on Pepsi. Anyway only culchies drink Pepsi. It’s coke all the way

jacksie66

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Summer In the City

dhaughton99 wrote: »

Aspartame causes cancer.

Complete myth. Aspartame is harmless.

Yer Da sells Avon

Reminds me of the time I asked for Diet Coke and got Pepsi Max instead. Dunno why I didn't just end it all there and then, tbh.

Canis Lupus

Summer In the City wrote: »

Complete myth. Aspartame is harmless.

But I saw it on a captioned picture on facebook. IT HAS TO BE TRUE!

humberklog

No butter to be had in Subway either. Which for a sambo shop is a bit odd.

Grab All Association

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Pizza hut and some wetherspoons in the UK are doing the same apparently.

Artificial sweeteners taste disgusting and the long term health effects aren't known although evidence suggests they contribute to obesity and not the opposite. I won't be drinking them.

Luckily though I live in the good ol US of A where I can never see chains like subway doing this. I enjoy them once in a while, I'm not overweight and don't have any health problems, the same as most people who consume these drinks in moderation. Let people make their own choice

Diet drinks don’t contribute to obesity. I can attest to that. From 65kg, 32w to 5ft.8, 50kg (underweight) and these pants I’m wearing were bought in the children’s section of Dunnes Stores and I’ve still to use a belt.

ceadaoin.

Grab All Association wrote: »

Diet drinks don’t contribute to obesity. I can attest to that. From 65kg, 32w to 5ft.8, 50kg (underweight) and these pants I’m wearing were bought in the children’s section of Dunnes Stores and I’ve still to use a belt.

Well the studies suggest that overall, they do. you can research it.

Consumption of artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and sucralose, is widespread and increasing. Emerging data indicate that artificial, or nonnutritive, sweeteners may have negative effects on metabolism, gut bacteria and appetite, although the evidence is conflicting.

The trials did not show a consistent effect of artificial sweeteners on weight loss, and the longer observational studies showed a link between consumption of artificial sweeteners and relatively higher risks of weight gain and obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and other health issues.

Caution is warranted until the long-term health effects of artificial sweeteners are fully characterized," said lead author Dr. Meghan Azad, Assistant Professor, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. Her team at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba is undertaking a new study to understand how artificial sweetener consumption by pregnant women may influence weight gain, metabolism and gut bacteria in their infants.

pleas advice

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Main reason is cost..............

Here's a graph on the price of sugar in comparison to artificial sweeteners.

Irish Guitarist

Go somewhere normal that isn't an overpriced American chain and buy a sandwich roll.

If for some reason you're intent on wasting money on a roll and you can't live without normal Pepsi, buy one can of Pepsi Max and keep the can. Whenever you're planning on going into Subway buy a Pepsi in a shop and pour the contents into the Pepsi Max can before entering Subway. Hide the can in a bag until you've ordered and no one is looking at you.

corner of hells

All this diet drink problem is easily solved by bringing your own bag of sugar with you when you out to eat

Alternatively you can you use the restaurants own little sachets.

TerrorFirmer

Brae100 wrote: »

Subway is declining hugely. After my non-diet drink trauma I did a bit of reading and discovered that the Subway franchise is in huge decline.

https://nypost.com/2017/10/22/subway-scrambles-to-understand-plunge-in-sales/

It must not have been that link you were reading because it says sales are down, but does not mention 'huge decline' whatsoever.

In fact the article says Subway still controls 75% of the sandwhich market.

Sales being down does not equal huge decline. Subway is perfectly healthy as a company/franchise.

sbsquarepants

I can't see the appeal of subway - that smell is stomach churning, I hold my breath walking past their shops, it's worse than sewerage:mad::mad: