Save us from ourselves, NLPC
The National Legal and Policy Center has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission because of a new ad campaign from Subway that compares the fat content in a single Big Mac from McDonalds to three of Subway's own foot-long Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki subs. Thank God we've got the NLPC to save us from ourselves, otherwise I'd be polishing off a half-dozen of these teriyaki bad-boys every day, let me tell you.
The crux of the NLPC's complaint is that the Subway ad disregards the overall caloric, cholesterol, sugar, carb and sodium content in their subs to emphasize the fat content as compared to the Big Mac.
They call the spots "clearly misleading to weight-conscious consumers." Consumers who are, as far as the NLPC is concerned, too stupid to actually check the nutritional information that fast food chains like Subway post in plain sight for "weight-conscious" customers to review before making an informed choice about what they're going to eat.
Anyone who thinks they're getting health food at a Subway or any other fast food joint needs a swift kick in the ass, because they're frigging idiots. But the fact stands that eating a Big Mac has about the same nutritional value as eating a large sponge that's been soaked overnight in rendered fat. You don't need Jared to tell you that, though he makes a good point when he hauls out three feet of submarine sandwich to illustrate the difference.