footlong sub – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:01:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 footlong sub – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Is the six-foot long Subway Sub coming to Japan? https://soranews24.com/2021/02/19/is-the-six-foot-long-subway-sub-coming-to-japan/ https://soranews24.com/2021/02/19/is-the-six-foot-long-subway-sub-coming-to-japan/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:00:43 +0000 https://soranews24.com/?p=532734 
All signs point to yes!!!
It’s only been a couple of weeks since we took up the challenge of eating a special Subway sub for the Setsubun holiday in Japan. That sandwich weighed in at just over 300 grams (2/3 of a pound) and measured in at 30 centimetres (11.8 inches) but as it turns out, this footlong was a mere baby compared to what was to come, because Subway is now teasing us with the promise of a sub as tall as a human.
The news first surfaced on 16 February, when Subway Japan sent out this message on their official Twitter account.
イギリスで183cmのこんな大きいサンドがあるみたい…ちょっとこれ…やばくないか…日本でも作ろうかしら…興味ある人RTしてください…反応よかったら作ります… pic.twitter.com/Ir6tGFtzpr
— サブウェイ (@subwayjp) February 16, 2021
The tweet above reads:
“In England, it looks like they have a sandwich as big as this, 183 centimetres. Whoah, this…OMG…I wonder if we can make it in Japan…If you’re interested, please retweet…If the reaction’s good, we’ll make it…”
Well, we’re happy to report the reaction was beyond good–in fact, the idea has become such a hit with people in Japan the tweet now has close to 110,000 likes and over 50,000 retweets as of this writing.
Though supersized party subs like these have appeared overseas in the past, this would be the first time for Subway to introduce such a monster to the Japanese market.
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People in Japan are hungry to try the six-foot sub, with likes and retweets on the tweet growing by the hour, and thousands of excited comments, including:
“Wow! I want to eat this! No, I need to eat this!!!”
“I want to know how it feels to carry something like this around in public.”
“I can’t wait to see people’s faces when I take this on the train during rush hour.”
“All the YouTubers in Japan would be salivating for this.”
“I don’t care how much it is, I’d definitely buy it!”
While there’s been no mention of price or sales date, over in the U.K.–where the six-foot sub was released in 2018 to celebrate the summer solstice, the longest day of the year–it was priced at 116 Pounds (US$160). While that might sound like a high price to pay, the giant sub was big enough to feed up to 25 people, which made it work out to a reasonable six bucks each.
Given the overwhelming response to Subway Japan’s surprise tweet, it looks likely that Japanese customers will soon be able to purchase the giant sub. We’re definitely looking forward to getting our teeth into it, especially after trying other ridiculously long monstrosities like the Devil’s sushi roll and the 161-centimetre-long can of giant Pringles!
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Jared out, luck in!
The Japanese holiday of Setsubun is upon us again! This year it takes place one day earlier than usual which just means we can get our hands on some fully loaded ehomaki sushi rolls even sooner.
For those unfamiliar with Setsubun, it’s a sort of early spring holiday with numerous customs depending on the region but an overarching theme of driving out bad luck and starting anew with good luck.
Stemming from the Kansai region is the custom of eating large sushi rolls called ehomaki which loosely translates to “lucky direction rolls.” This is because custom dictates that they should be eaten while jutting out of the mouth in a certain lucky direction.
It was basically a PR stunt by merchants for Osaka and the surrounding area to help sell their sushi full of “lucky ingredients” during this auspicious time. It wasn’t until fairly recently that the concept spread outside of Kansai, to the point that older Japanese people in the father reaches of the country may have no experience with it.
▼ Our writer from Kansai (left) feeding an ehomaki to an unsuspecting writer from Tokyo (right).
However, being the great business gimmick it is, it’s been catching on really quickly. Now some non-sushi restaurant have even tried to get in on the action with eho-roll-cakes and eho-pizza, which is just a regular pizza folded in two.
Normally such blatant co-opting of a holiday tradition might seem a little gauche, but since the whole point of ehomaki was a marketing ploy to begin with, it’s actually pretty much in tune with the true spirit of the custom.
So it’s also great that Subway has decided to join in on the fun with their eho-subs. These are actually just regular footlong BLT and roast chicken subs, but with a different name and a little cheaper!
They’re only available from 29 January to 3 February, so our writer Saya Togashi hurried down on the first day to try one out for 650 yen (US$6.20). At her local Subway, there were some pre-made eho-subs all wrapped and ready to go, but it’s also okay to have one custom made in true Subway fashion.
In Japan, six-inch subs are by far the standard, so Saya was rather alarmed by the size of this footlong. As tradition dictates, the sushi roll — or submarine sandwich in this case — must be eaten in its entirety while pointing in the lucky direction without cutting or breaking and without uttering a word.
This was beginning to look like a daunting task for our writer who decided to measure and weigh the sandwich for posterity.
The sandwich weighed in at just over 300 grams (2/3 of a pound) and was buckling under its own weight. This made it a little unwieldy to consume in proper Setsubun fashion, but she got ready to give it her best.
Fortunately, the package had this year’s lucky direction of south by southeast printed on it, and because of the ongoing state of emergency she was home alone which made it easy to do so without speaking.
There isn’t much to report on the taste, since this is after all just a regular Subway BLT. The bread was nice and fresh with salty, crispy bacon and firm, spicy ham. Since much of the BLT’s fillings were vegetables, the sandwich wasn’t too heavy on her stomach, and she could just manage to polish it all off.
With her eho-sub out of the way, there was still plenty of time to take on a sushi roll wrapped in gold or maybe even a Devil’s Ehomaki.
Also, for anyone who can’t make it to a Japanese Subway during this period, it’s easy to recreate the magic of Setsubun by ordering a regular footlong. All you’d really be missing is the discount and instructional wrapper.
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