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But I don't know if they advertise or not, but we do stories about everything here.

Nine menu items subway workers tell you not to eat.

Meatball subs is one.

See, that was the original for me.

Yeah, that sucks.

Yeah.

Well, here's the reason now.

I love this.

This is a great band name, by the way.

Current and former subway employees reveal that meatball protocols may very widely from different locations.

I guess they're not really, you know.

I don't necessarily have to contain meat.

Well, no, there's a blender.

There's a blend of beef and pork, drenched in marinera sauce, Parmesan cheese.

What makes them great.

I think I've had no one of those before.

And it basically said our meatballs only have a four-hour lifespan in the hot well.

So if our meatballs are never thrown away,

they last 12 hours in the hot well.

So yeah, so yeah, maybe this their meatball protocol is a key word of that.

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