Lawsuit over alleged fish fraud: Subway tuna sandwiches appear to contain no tuna
A lawsuit filed against a well-known fast-food sandwich chain is causing quite a stir. Two customers who are suing the company had an investigation carried out, in which laboratory tests showed that Subway’s tuna salad sandwiches, from a chain with locations all over the world, contained exactly this much tuna: 0.0.
These consumers say they thought that by choosing fish, they had been making a somewhat healthy choice all this time, and they also paid more for it than they would have for, say, a cold-cut sandwich…
What it is remains unclear
The lawsuit further states that several independent lab tests showed that the main ingredient in this tuna salad sandwich consists of everything except tuna. According to a lawyer for the plaintiffs, it is not tuna, not even fish, and people are being seriously misled as a result.
Dispute
Subway itself is emphatically defending its position and says that its locations do indeed serve ‘pure’ tuna, which they mix with mayonnaise and serve on freshly made bread. The company will not be pleased, especially after it was recently banned in Ireland from calling its ‘bread’ bread because of its high sugar content. It therefore plans to file its own lawsuit in the tuna case, alleging defamation. The last word has clearly not yet been spoken!
You can make it better yourself
In any case, I would not buy a tuna salad sandwich from a fast-food chain… It is better not to eat too much tuna anyway, and if you do eat it, you can easily make the tastiest tuna salad at home (with a little mayo, capers and spring onion rings). And while you are at it: put cheese on top and slide it under the grill for a fantastic tuna melt!
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Source: The Washington Post
