Sandwiches

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at America’s obsession with sandwiches. Why is Subway the United State’s biggest fast food chain, leaving Starbuck and McDonalds in its wake? To get answers, David heads to Philly to investigate one of America’s greatest inventions: The Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich. There he discovers two sandwich stores locked in a decades-long rivalry. What’s the beef between Geno’s and Pat’s? And what of the man who supplies both stores with their tasty sodas? David also meets the man behind popular Instagram account @SandwichesOfHistory, Barry, who recreates sandwiches of yore. Why were ancient sandwiches so disgusting? Why would someone combine peanut butter with tomatoes in a sandwich? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander who accidentally got stuck in America, and I want to find
0:06.0	out what makes this country tick.
0:08.3	Now many moons ago, something American came to New Zealand.
0:11.8	It was 1995, and it involved a man named Jarrett.
0:15.7	This oven roasted chicken breast sandwich at subway restaurants. It has five grams of
0:19.0	fat. This is real chicken with fresh veggies and freshly baked bread.
0:23.0	Subway, eat fresh.
0:25.0	Jared Fogle was Subway's secret sauce, a man who allegedly plummeted in size after changing
0:31.0	his diet to the subway sandwich.
0:33.7	In 1995 there was one subway in New Zealand.
0:37.0	By 2008, there were 200 subways in New Zealand.
0:42.0	And back in America, by 2016,
0:44.4	subway had a peak of having over 27,000 locations.
0:48.8	Of course, Subway started declining in popularity around the time Jared Fogle,
0:53.8	Subway's public face, went down for possessing child porn.
0:57.9	It was a PR disaster that Subways never fully recovered from,
1:01.9	in slow decline ever since.
1:04.3	Still, it remains America's biggest fast food chain,
1:07.7	followed by Starbucks and then McDonald's.
1:10.6	Why am I talking about Subway?
1:12.3	Well, I'm talking about subway because it sells submarine
1:15.3	sandwiches.
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