Is 11 inches enough to satisfy you?

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Subway customers are whipping out their measuring tapes after Internet postings that claim a short-shrifting of the worldwide chain's famous footlong sub, putting the Milford, Conn.-based company in the hot seat.

The controversy began Tuesday in Australia, when a very precise customer, identified as Matt Corby of Perth, ordered a footlong sub and then pulled out a tape measure. Corby found the sub measured only 11 inches long and took his outrage to Facebook, where he posted a photo of his sub alongside the tape measure on the company's page with the caption, "subway pls respond."

The page with Corby's photo appears to be no longer available on Facebook. Screengrabs taken of his image and reposted online show the photo quickly received more than 131,000 likes and thousands of comments.

The photo also sparked an abundance of photos on Facebook of subs being measured and countless comments on Subway's page, ranging from "I think they [Subway] owe us some," to "there are way more thing in life to worry about then 1 inch of sub."

The New York Post followed up on Corby's complaint with a New York City-based investigation of its own and found Corby's experience to be more the rule than the exception.

According to the Post, four out of seven "Five-dollar Footlongs" purchased at Subways in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, measured only 11 or 11.5 inches. A local franchise owner told the paper the chain has cut the portions of their cold-cut meats by 25 percent recently and raised the cost of food to individual store owners.

Subway attributes the discrepancy in sub length to the fact that the bread is baked fresh daily in each of their 38,000 restaurants. They do say, however, they are looking into the matter.

"We are committed to providing a consistent product delivering the same amount of bread to the customer with every order. The length however may vary slightly when not baked to our exact specifications. We are reinforcing our policies and procedures in an effort to ensure our offerings are always consistent no matter which Subway restaurant you visit," the company said in a statement provided to ABCNews.com today.

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[Deleted member 87369]

I have a friend who measured his before and he told me it was about 11'. Guess he was right. He told me his sub was 11' too

 

[jdi23]

11 or 12 inches you still getting hella bread.

 

[knowledgebones72]

I have that same problem.

 

[651akathepaul]

@ the thread title.

 

[jfmartimcdandruff]

i'm more mad at the amount of meat put inside nowadays

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[oinker34]

@ the thread title.

Was thinking the same thing :x

 

[thadocta]

i hate subway

they are way too overpriced

i got a tuna footlong a veggie footlong and chips for 15 bucks

and they skimp on vegetables.

thinking of ordering a big party sub and not picking it up to really stick it to em

 

[guzzy]

i'm more mad at the amount of meat put inside nowadays

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TRUUUU

F the bread.

Better put some more ham on that b.

 

[jquadz34]

Di Bella's is the best!!!

 

[deleted]

thinking of ordering a big party sub and not picking it up to really stick it to em

Atta boy...show em who's boss!

 

[dathbgboy]

They already short you on what goes on/in the sub, why would they stop there? 1/2 slice of cheese = 1 slice = Subway math.

 

[ryda421]

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[lavert24]

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[jayhood23]

Subway is gross anyway

 

[trilluminated]

now everybody's gonna be in subway with that construction worker swag..

 

[coldcity]

@ that title

 

[dominikid]

Ayooooo

 

[b20 eg8]

Which wich >

 

[weekz]

We should be entitled to a free meal if the food doesn't measure up to standard.

Ayo title though

 

[jjs]

The size doesn't matter.

It's how you make it

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I'm talking about sandwich

 

[whyhellothere]

that extra inch really means that much?
can you just be satisfied with what you receive ?

 

[antonlavey]

I rather have 6 inches with more girth.

 

[balloonoboy]

I highly doubt everyone eats all of the bread anyway.

That chicken teriyaki though...I don't leave a crumb, b.

 

[jjs]

I highly doubt everyone eats all of the bread anyway.

it's not about eating everything or not.

It's false advertising if you always get 11 inches.

Anyway, you're right on that teriyaki