First the coffee: Seattle's Best. Served from a canister. Hot, fresh, a little weak, but not bad at all. Actually, quite good.
The sandwich: I should say that the cost for a coffee and sandwich is $2.50. That's important because expectations are not high for two bucks. I chose the egg, ham, and cheese on an English muffin. It didn't taste bad, I think I may have even detected a hint of egg taste, but the smell of the sandwich was off-putting. I'm not sure if it is the reaction of the egg to the heating apparatus they use or what, but it did have an unusual non-food odor.
The second problem is the appearance of the egg. The eggs are precooked and scrambled, of course, and one has the choice of yellow or white. I assume the yellow has some yolk in it, and the white, no yolk. But the egg is cooked into a thin, crepe-like shape and has the appearance of that plastic vomit kids use to scare other kids. Sorry, that's just the best way to describe it. I would guess the egg, in volume, is about one-half of a small Waffle House type egg, if you know what I mean.
Is it worth $2.50? Well, not really. But if they could figure out the egg part, the muffin, cheese and ham were pretty tasty. And the coffee is good.
My suggestion: call it a breakfast ham and cheese and lose the egg, or whatever that yellow thing was.
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When Subway first began to offer breakfast sandwiches, I stopped in one to try it out. I haven't made that mistake twice. The bread was soggy, the egg was exactly as you described and the employee was not at all happy being in the lonely store in the morning.
Stick with what you're good at, Subway.
Thanks for the comment, Julie.
I can see why Subway wants to broaden their scope. Their business is concentrated on a three hour window, lunch. McDonald's has made a success at it and Whataburger, even Jack in the Box. I'd fire the guy who decided on the egg format. Wow, was that bad.
So, no Subway breakfast sandwich for Ms. Ravelled; duly noted.
On the other hand, I had dinner tonight with my friend Trainman at M&O burger, and it was every good thing you said about it, and more.
Lynn -- it's just my opinion, I would be curious hear yours. If they are open for breakfast 6 months from now I will be shocked.
I am glad you liked M&O. Good people and good food.
Thanks, as always for the comments.
For that money you can get something a lot better at Sonic.
I got a breakfast sandwich at Dunkin Donuts a couple months ago and the review of that sandwich would match the overall impression of this review.
Doo. -- Never been to Sonic, I'll try it. Thanks.
Sonic has the best bang-for-the-buck for breakfast burritos (including one for just one buck on the value menu). They also have a breakfast croissant that my wife gets without the meat (she's a vegetarian, though not a vegan...she'll eat eggs & cheese). The best part about Sonic is they really do cook their food fresh.
Doohickie -- I like the fresh part. Thanks, I'll try it.
Would you believe that White Castle makes a better breakfast sandwich than Subway. I like the bacon, egg and cheese on the bun, yes, the same little slider bun. However, they fry up the egg upon order and with the bacon, it just fits the bill for a quick small breakfast - $1.49. Subway breakfast smelled nauseating. I think it was the muffin.
Why bother spending all that TIME and FUSS at home poaching a real egg, toasting a real English muffin just the way you like it, and piling on a slice of real ham and real cheese when you can peel off to a Subway en route to work, get out of the car, walk in, order, watch the Sandwich Artist slip on a plastic glove, slap that industrial egg patty food product on top an industrial English muffin food product...
Just so you can have breakfast made at home that tastes way better at one third the cost??? What are you, a Republican???
Dominique -- Good point. Good rhetorical question. And yes, I am a Republican.
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