Baking bread produces nauseating odors? WTF?

Our Subway smells like vomit.

Damnit. Now I'm hungry.
Is it lunchtime yet?

Baking stale bread's still ok, right?

Subway bread smells nothing like real bread. I dunno what that stuff is, but I like it.

Ant: Baking bread produces nauseating odors? WTF?

Maybe it's a condo full of celiac's sufferers.

So I'm not the only one who can't go within 50 feet of a Subway. That stench turns my stomach ar first whiff.

Why is this asinine? Have you smelled a Subway's supposed "fresh bread" smell?

It smells like the worst car deorderizer ever.

Seriously, have your mom bake some bread. MM. smell that. Then smell a subway baking. Ask yourself why it smells nothing like your mom.
ha. your mom.

Im sure it still smells better than the urine

nutmilk: Then smell a subway baking.

Your mom smells the same way. I told her to wash next time.

Ah, so they still serve fine whine on the Upper East side, no surprise there

Maybe it's just their breath blowing back in their faces. They are New Yorkers after all.

Simply change the name to "Allah's Bakery". Problem solved, no mo complaints.

You know, because the rest of New York smells like roses..

They must be doing something wrong, because fresh baking bread is one of the best smells in the world.

I'm guessing that their bread's got some sort of preservative in it that stinks to high heaven when its heated.

Whatever. There's another sub place not far from my local Subway that piles on at least double the ingredients for the same price.

I agree. I stopped getting my car fueled up at the local Sunoco with the Subway counter inside because it smelled so bad. That smell got in my clothes. Their "bread" baking does not smell anything like real bread. It is just nauseating. I would never eat at Subway, yuch. You know what I am talking about, JT?
What do you mean "asinine"? You must either like to or have to eat really crappy, smelly food. That is NOT fresh bread.

We stopped going to Subway in our office cuz the smell would stick to your clothes and fill up the whole office.

The hell with that place. It's all about Quiznos

The yeast cultures that Subway uses to make their bread rise makes a distinctive funky odor, not the baking itself. Basically, the place smells like ass.

Here's the plan:
1) Fart (silent but deadly kind preferrable)
2) Wait for it to seep into the air
3) Sniff a little bit and say, "Wow, is someone baking bread?"
4) Friends take a big whiff of the air and subsequently pass out.

Best plan ever.

The last time I "baked bread" in a subway, it smelled so bad the bums went to the next car.

Subway bread smells like a burning dead hobo mixed with ammonia. However, poetic justice would be for the condo board to shut down the Subway, only to have it replaced with a Starbucks (that smells like burning Folgers and solvent) ...with far more powerful lawyers.

I've never noticed any bread smell from Subway. Probably cos it's not bread, but whatever, I like it.

They're expensive, though. I think it's like $4.00 for a sandwich made of not-bread and not that much filling.

As one who lived above a bagel bakery for years I can attest to the fact that that 'sweet aroma' you enjoy while momentarily walking past on the street becomes a mixed-ingredient stank STINK when accumulated in one spot for a while.

ESPECIALLY anything with ONIONS!

DRTA

Why would subway care what a CONDO board has to say?

theorellior: nutmilk: Then smell a subway baking.

Your mom smells the same way. I told her to wash next time.

That's just a yeast infection...

/boo's and hisses self

yes, the smell of subway baking bread is nothing close to the traditional grandma baking bread in her kitchen smell. the yeast alone is retched.

which brings me to my peeve about subway. IMO, a business should only do one thing well. if they take on too many simultaneous tasks, they end up doing nothing well. Baking bread and making sandwiches hasnt proven successful for them.

one of the local chains in my area, Thundercloud Subs in Austin, TX they get their french bread for an honest to god bakery whose only job is to bake bread, and these guys make the sandwiches. and damn, they are good sandwiches.

it doesnt matter what you put in a sandwich if the bread sucks.

pendy575: Why would subway care what a CONDO board has to say?

Well, in NYC, condo and co-ops have control of what stores are using their street-level spaces.

Condo boards:
oftentimes genuine nazi wannabes

/one of the worst aspects of condo living
/still living in house but likes certain aspects of condos

Yes...Subway food sucks so bad they went out of business in the first year.

I wonder if the CONDO board has ever heard of a contract? Will be pretty hard for them to break the contract that Subway has. Ummm...yes....ummm...I guess we didn't realize at the time we this contract was signed that a food establishment would you know uuummmm actually be making food on the premisies.

There's something odd about that "subway bread baking" smell. I seriously, SERIOUSLY, love it. It makes me drool, as well as others I know. Yet I've known a few people, and seen even more of it here, that it sickens. I dated a girl that couldn't set foot in a subway restaurant without getting seriously nauseous.

I agree with the condo people saying "get rid of the smell", but not the lawsuit. Especially after the owner of the restaurant tried his damndest to make everything better: new ventilation, offering to pay for dry-cleaning. He sounds like a genuinely decent person, and certainly doesn't deserve a lawsuit over this silliness.

It's all about Quiznos

I've heard Quiznos is really good, but after the marketing campaign with the mutant mouse thingy:

it left me with no desire to ever vist a Quiznos. Kind of scared me in fact. Rodents aren't a great idea for advertising if you are a restaurant. Unless you're Chuck E. Cheese.

I'm no law-talking guy, but if the condo board can prove it, I bet it turns out they're completely in the right.

We have a closet sized restaurant counter in my building at work. They were doing commercial cooking and I guess missed the instructions to change the oil. They also spaced on the law stating they can't cook that way w/out a permit.

Like a noisome ninja, the smell crept up the elevator shaft to the 12th floor. If it were to take a more solid form, it would be one of the creatures from Ghostbusters.

They since ceased to cook with oil.

I work at subway so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Seriously though, I used to work at one. The bread comes in frozen sticks that you put into a humidifier to rise them then you bake it. What you are smelling is it rising not baking. That smell is VERY strong and doesn't smell all that terrific.

This is the problem with many NYC residents. They move into a city, spend millions on a 2 bedroom fixer upper, and then complain and sue everyone in sight for reminding them that they live in a city. Hear your neighbors? Sue 'em. Traffic noise? Sue and make your neighborhood a no-honking zone. Restaurant smells? Sue. It is absurd.

I work at the University of Missouri and the subway that we have in our commons area frequently throws their bread into our cardboard compactor.

You wouldn't believe just how much they toss. I'm talking 4 or 5 trash bags a week. Full loaves. Probably would feed the whole of Africa.

Baking Subway "bread" smells like ass. That being said, the smell of "real" bread baking is heavenly! However, there are some sad folks who dislike the smell of freshly baked bread. A few years ago, some of the locals were biatching & moaning about the baking bread odors coming from the Williams Bakery. If you move into a house that's just a few blocks from a bakery, wouldn't you expect to smell baking once in awhile?

The only good sandwich chains are jimmy johns and potbellys.

Oh yea...Quiznoes is sooooo much better than Subway! That is like saying the Denny's across town near the movie theater is somehow better than the one by the mall.

They all serve watery 'myster meat' sandwiches that only have taste if you slather them with mayo and salt. It is like eating a sponge, whether that sponge is called Quiznoes or Subway or Blimpie.

Mmmmm....mass produced gruel...gotta love it!

chaddsfarkprefect: Like a noisome ninja, the smell crept up the elevator shaft to the 12th floor.

That was a lovely turn of phrase. I award you one (1) Internet.

I've noticed something similar about Starbucks... Recently almost every supermarket has a Starbucks INSIDE the store... Not connected to the store, or in a corner behind a counter, but in the middle of the store (i.e., you can walk entirely around the outside of it) there is a mini Starbucks shop. And while supermarkets used to be places that strived to be devoid of odor, they now often smell like mouldy piss. Sometimes I have to turn right around and walk out of a supermarket if the Starbucks exhaust stench is particularly strong. I don't want to be gagging and wretching and possibly vomiting when all I want to do is buy somoe groceries...

Luckily I can find most of my groceries at a couple of independent specialty grocers in my area...

It only takes a second for that smell to get into your clothes and hair, too. So nasty. I don't understand why anyone goes to Subway when there are at least five national sandwich chains that are better (not even considering local delis).

I'll answer my own question: Because Subway is always closest, and people are lazy.

Subway is the worst place in the world. The sandwiches have as little filling as they can get away with and the bread is always crushed and wet.

I think Subway uses that Jared guy's liposuctioned fat instead of shortening.

No trans-fats... safe for New Yorker consumption.

If you can't stand the smell of fresh baking bread, then you need to be shot. Nothing more can be said.