He got it made at Subway -- and it didn't measure up.
Australian Subway customer Matt Corby took a tape measure to the sandwich chain's vaunted Footlong and complained in a post on Subway's Facebook page that it was an inch short.
Now he has an army of of sandwich sympathizers, Gawker pointed out Wednesday. The page is full of comments about the supposedly length-challenged hoagies while collecting more than 100,000 "Likes."
Several readers snickered that Subway wouldn't be the first to boast that it has a footlong when perhaps it is a jalapeno or two short.
"If I'm paying for a footlong sub that they so annoyingly advertise, then I want a footlong sub," Reggie Martinez wrote. "And to all others, yes it does matter."
Corby asked Subway for a response but the chain had yet to answer at press time. As of Wednesday evening, the Huffington Post hadn't had much luck either in getting comment at Subway's Milford, Conn., headquarters.
The New York Post noted that one popular explanation for the discrepancy is that a toasted sub shrinks while a cold one remains the same length.
Even beyond its alleged truth-in-advertising problem, Subway can't seem to catch a break these days. It can't even keep ketchup off the menu without catching flak for it. Police were called to a Orlando, Fla., outlet recently when a customer had a meltdown after being told there was no ketchup for his Philly cheesesteak.
Imagine what might have happened if he had discovered the sandwich was 11 inches.
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