Subway – the chain of fast food sandwiches that still has the legal permission to call their sandwich cases “bread” an overwhelming majority of countries– found himself in a new legal swamp / PR this week, when a new lawsuit claimed that the “tuna” in his beloved tuna salad sandwiches was not. Filed in Northern California, the complaint alleges that the “tuna” flowing from your delicious tuna salad sandwich is, rather than that special species of flavored fish, a “mixture of various dishes that do not constitute tuna, but have been mixed together by to defendants to mimic the appearance of tuna ”and, more cursing, it is assumed that“ there are no fish ” according to the comments made by the applicants concerned at Washington Post.
Subway has, of course, denied that the “various dishes” in his sandwiches are anything other than cooked tuna mixed with mayonnaise, but obviously we are already quite firm on the territory of “Making the Villains Deny.” Once someone pointed out the possibility that one of your delicious drinks may not contain what you say is in it – and the general public is forced to really think could be there – the fight for hearts, minds and stomach is almost already lost.
Subway has at least one defender in its corner: Jessica Simpson, who – in a line that is not only funnier than almost any line of dialogue in a movie given by Jessica Simpson, ever, but also everything we, personally, I thought about a year ago – he referred to it own infamous difficulties in identifying the tone with a solidarity tweet for the sandwich chain.
Absolutely brutal.
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