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Heads up! Subway has recently NEGATIVELY changed its policy toward Celiacs. No longer can we get "breadless sandwich" ingredients served in a plastic salad bowl, NOW we have to eat out of four or five small cups and/or "cookie wrappers" in which Subway serves our meal. Always before when we asked for a $5 foot-long sub WITHOUT bread, the managers would sometimes stare blankly for a minute, but then they would proceed to serve up the foot-longs fixin's IN a plastic salad bowl without complaint. However, recently I was told that an "edict" had come down from Corporate that Subway will ONLY allow "breadless sandwiches" to be served in several small coffee/soup cups and open cookie wrappers! What a mess with a hot chicken club!

Just get a salad? Well here's the rub: the salads cost 50 cents MORE than the $5.00 foot-long subs, and the salads have only ONE piece of meat, while the foot-long's have TWO pieces of meat, a TON of lettuce, and cost LESS than salads! A gyp, right? So in exchange for DONATING our bread BACK to Subway's coffers, we Celiacs are being punished with a.) having to struggle to eat our meal in a conglomeration of tiny cups and soggy cookie wrappers or b.) paying MORE for LESS meat in a salad! Try eating THAT on your lap in the car or on a picnic, or even at one of their tables! They know this and we Celiacs are simply being punished for daring to ask for something the non-Celiacs are getting automatically! Grrrrrr. Those plastic salad bowls can't cost as much as an entire loaf of their gluten-nightmare BREAD! All we're asking is to swap the bread for the salad bowl. Easy, right?

Well, we've appealed to Subway Customer Service for months now, and have been patronizingly told that our "suggestion" would be "run by Research and Development"...Yeah right!?! R&D has nothing to do with this. This is strictly discrimination against Celiacs! They expect us to either pay MORE for a salad drowned in lettuce, or to eat our "breadless sandwich" ingredients in a bunch of tiny cups all over our laps!

We have really enjoyed Subway and this is a real shame, but we do believe all the Celiacs should be made aware of Subway's blatant unfriendliness to us, and MAKE SOME NOISE! We go to many other fast-food restaurants (including Chipotle, who is savvy enough to even change gloves for us!) and have never had such inequities against our health issues before. This is intolerable, and should be broadcast to all Celiacs out there! LOUD AND CLEAR!

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