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Three years ago, a Left-Handed Toons comic (seen after the jump) illustrated the insanity of Subway's cheese distribution policy. The triangular cheese slices were lined up in a row with overlapping corners, and even worse, some parts of the sandwich were rendered cheeseless.

The comic kickstarted a small movement encouraging the sandwich chain to start alternating the orientation of their cheese slices, as seen in the image above, which would provide for a more equitable cheese distribution.

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Drew at Left-Handed Comics writes:
Just look at the gorgeous coverage on the sandwich on the left, and shun his broken brother on the right, for he was born wrong. He stands there overlapped, mouth agape but unable to speak. The time of his kind is over.

Now is the time for the New Procedure. You can almost picture taking every homogenous bite. It's okay now.

Everything will always forever be okay now.
Of course, this might be only a regional test, as the information was found in an internal Subway newsletter in Australia and New Zealand. Read the whole newsletter blurb at Reddit.

Lastly, join the fight. Buy a shirt!

Update: Even Ebert has put in his two cents. What's that guy doing eating Subway? Come to think of it, What's that guy doing eating?

Update 2: Some amazing commenters are popping up. My favorite:
I managed a Subway restaurant 20 years ago and we received the cheese the way you buy a block of singles in the grocery stores that isn't individually wrapped. Subway then made us cut each stack into triangles to conform to the company standards. I trained my employees to tessellate the cheese as shown in the suggestion, going against the standard for the same reason mentioned, maximum sandwich coverage.

When confronted by my Subway D.A.(Development Agent)about this, he told me we were not adhering to the strict company guidelines on how to "build" the sandwich as he had just observed one of my employees laying out the cheese "incorrectly" for one of our customers, and promptly wrote them up for it. Funny thing is he had just eaten a sandwich prepared by the same employee, he had eventually written up, and commented on how good it was. After he wrote the employee up, I explained to him he had just eaten a sandwich the way I instructed my employees to make it, tessellating the cheese, and didn't notice the infraction then when he inspected it before he ate it. He then tore up the write up, and told me to keep doing it as we were, and directed all his other stores to follow our lead.



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