Subway Australia has responded to the outcry sparked by the photo of an 11-inch ‘footlong’ sub that was posted on its Facebook page by teen Matt Corby.
It’s questionable.
Here’s the statement Subway Australia posted on Facebook:
Photo: Subway Australia
The post has since been taken down.
The most important part:
“With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, “SUBWAY FOOTLONG” is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length.”
But Buzzfeed’s Copyranter offers up these examples from a 2008 commercial from Subway. The ad is quite explicit about the length of a footlong – one foot:
And here’s the photo that started all of this:
Photo: Matt Corby on Facebook
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