Subway not selling regular Pepsi

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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:

Absolutely love subway, go every week without fail for my footlong BMT packed to the hilt with all the salads and lashings of honey mustard! Can't beat the 6 euro deal!

I always get Pepsi max anyway so this won't bother me but that being said as of last Friday they were still selling normal Pepsi in the subway I go to.

Pelvis

EPAndlee wrote: »

Pepsi is just sad coke

Hi John.

Squatter

anewme wrote: »

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.

Provenance? (predictive text strikes again!)

silverharp

there is something about the place that reeks of failure, not a fan

DubDani

IKEA also did that in 2016 or 2017, replacing all the regular soft drinks they were offering with low/no sugar Versions.

Hande hoche!

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. .

Chopped is crap. Even more of a deluded health halo than Subway. Avoid like the plague.

Red_Wake

Hande hoche! wrote: »

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. .

Chopped is crap. Even more of a deluded health halo than Subway. Avoid like the plague.

Always see fat people eating at Chopped. There's no helping some people.

coffee_cake

beefburrito wrote: »

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.....

I thought this was going to turn into a limerick

Ush1

I think diet drinks taste sweeter than non-diet. That horrible artificial, foamy taste. Give me sugar any day, very rare I drinks fizzy drinks though anyway.

pickarooney

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. .

Unlike the Middle Eastern health-food chain, Inshallad?