Subway

"Five...five dollar foot longs." You've probably had Subway's catchy little ditty stuck in your head--ALL DAY--at least once by now.

Granted, it's not as nagging as Chili's "I want my baby back, baby back, back," but its pretty hard to shake, which might be a good thing.

Turns out, $5 is the latest win-win in fast food gimmicks. Subway raked in $3.8 billion with it, and now other restaurants are giving it a try too.

There are plenty of reasons to call the police: home invasion, armed robbery, kidnapping, heck, even locking your keys in the car is a great excuse to call the cops, but calling them because a fast-food restaurant messed up your order is NOT one of them!

And yet, it still happens. Reginald Peterson, a 42-year old construction worker and former felon, dialed 911 TWICE because a neighborhood Subway forgot to add sauce to his spicy Italian sandwich.

John Agnesini bit into a foot-long Subway and discovered a little extra: a 7 inch serrated knife. It appeared to be baked into the bread.

Mover over Jared and the Subway diet, there is a newcomer to the fast food weight loss arena and his name is Justin Hall.

Over three months, Justin has lost 40 pounds by eating a Chipotle burrito every day, but compared to the Subway diet, Justin’s new “Chipotle Diet” is pretty extreme since Justin’s daily burrito has a whopping 1330 calories!

Researchers Brian Wansink and Pierre Chandon have shown that people routinely underestimate the amount of calories consumed when eating at Subway.

They call it the "Biasing Health Halos of Fast Food Restaurant Health Claims".

It seems we believe the low-calorie hype, and end up adjusting our eating habits because of it.

UK lobby group CASH has compared the level of salt in sandwiches with potato chips (or crisps as they are called in the UK).

Their discoveries may surprise you.

Subway is about to roll-out personal-sized pizza in it's 13,000 outlets. This is a strange move given all the hype about Subway's "healthier options".

Recently I compared Subway and McDonald's and felt that Subway did offer the better options.

Now I'm not so sure.

Subway have taken aim at McDonald's with their new "Fresh Fit" meals. The combo meals are compared side-by-side against a Big Mac meal. Subway's meal comes out at 265 calories, while the Big Mac meal hits a gluttonous 1230 calories.

But there's more to it than that...

McDonald's New Zealand are embarking on a new 'feel-good' campaign. During two lunchtimes a McDonald's outlet will set up cameras in its kitchen and broadcast the video to onlookers outside. "We have nothing to hide and we're happy to invite people to have a look at our practices..." said the Managing Director.