Brilliant!  I wondered where that thing came from. 

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi David–

I just saw that ‘fourth-meal’ ad a couple of days ago during a football game.  I couldn’t believe it.  Not only are they encouraging us to eat more, they are encouraging us to eat more often.

Cheers–

MRE 

Personally I think the Jack in the Box big white head is creepy yet funny. I liked the one where his kid gives a report about being vegetarian.

Hi Connie–

I’ve never seen the one about the vegetarian kid.  Sounds bizarre.

Cheers–

MRE 

…As I said, that’s what I used to think.

Unfortunately, the last 2 or 3 times I’ve tried to eat at Quiznos, the salad has become progressively worse.

First, they try to push their flatbread salad on me, even though I specifically request the Roman Craveable Salad (which is essentially nothing more than a chicken Caesar salad). So I have to explain to them repeatedly that the flatbread salad is not what I want, and not what I asked for, leaving me wondering why they even bother to keep the Roman salad on the menu if no one seems to know what it is any more.

Apparently as a result of the fact that no one seems to know what the Roman salad is any more, they’re usually out of the blend of greens that they normally use for the Roman salad. I can live with that, even if it’s annoying.

The last time I was there though, not only did I have to go through this rigamarole of practically telling them exactly what was on the Roman Salad and telling them how to make it, they didn’t even have any of the peppercorn caesar dressing! So I settled for their italian dressing instead, hoping it wouldn’t taste like a bowl of sugar. It did, unfortunately. Luckily, I’d decided to taste it before pouring it all over my salad.

The piece de resistance was when I started to eat the salad – The greens were absolutely inedible, they were so old, brown and limp.

I was so disgusted with my “meal” by that point that if I hadn’t already been extremely foggy headed from low blood sugar (I’d been driving for hours), I’d have taken it back to the brain trust at the counter and demanded that they give me my money back. Besides, in the small town where I stopped, there really wasn’t any other choice of a place to get any kind of meal that I felt would be a bit better.

Instead, I ate the chicken and tossed the rest of it in the trash, planning to never darken their doors again.

Side note: I strongly suspect that their flatbreads are no longer low carb – they look very different from what they used to use, and they don’t promote their flatbread salads as being low carb, and don’t even have the flatbread wraps on the menu any more.

Hi Calianna–

Thanks for the heads up.  We haven’t been in a Quiznos for at least six months, but next time we do, I’ll be on alert.

Cheers–

MRE 

My vote for the most creepy? Hands down, it’s the Burger King. Good gravy, who’d want to have that guy peering through your window?

Hi Esther–

How about Jared Fogel peering through your window…

I’ve got a post in me about how Subway used Jared so brilliantly to sell a ton of their products.

Cheers–

MRE 

We used to have lots of drinking glasses from McD’s when I was a kid. Most of them had Grimace on them. Gave me nightmares.

Hi Paul–

It’s easy to see why McDonald’s would want to distance themselves from the roly poly Grimace today, what with all the real and threatened lawsuits against them for promoting obesity.

Best–

MRE 

The winner will be announced tomorrow.

Hi Angelyne–

Nope, it was a legitimate (if that word can be used to describe this ad) ad that ran in 2004. See Chris’s comment for the link to the history.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Elizabeth–

Yeah, Quiznos tried to ride the wave alright, but I guess they got swamped.  Looks like they jerked the thing fairly quickly.  One wonders who with good sense would have approved it in the first place.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Chris–

Thanks for the link.  Thanks to you and other readers, I’m learning much more about the Spongemonkeys than I ever wanted to. 

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi Amelia–

I hit the link, listened to the song in its entirety, and found it unimaginable dreadful.  If this is what the youth of America is all about, then I am truly becoming an old fud I fear.

Cheers–

MRE