This 1990s Subway Menu Has Us Nostalgic for Those Little Round Sandwiches

I recently saw an old 1996 menu for a Connecticut Subway restaurant that immediately brought me back to a time when the sandwich chain was our neighbor here at our Fairhaven studios.

Although I’ve only been a full-time employee at WBSM and Fun 107 for a little over eight years, I’ve been on the radio here for a long time – going back to The Locker Room sports talk show back in 2002.

I’m not exactly sure when the former TCBY frozen yogurt shop that was once next door became a Subway, but I do know that we had over a decade of coming to work every day to the scent of fresh-baked bread wafting through our offices.

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Subway moved out of Sconticut Plaza a few years ago and relocated next to Staples not too far from us. It’s a bigger, brighter spot with more tables and multiple entrances; while it’s certainly more welcoming and efficient, it is a little sad to no longer have it right next door.

This Subway menu posted on the Greasy News Facebook page had me nostalgic for an even earlier time: way back in the 1990s, when this plaza still had occupants like Strawberries Records & Tapes and the Pockets pool hall.

Just take a look at some of those prices. These days, we long for when Subway ran the $5 footlong promotion; back in 1996, it didn’t even cost $5 to get one. The most expensive sandwich on the menu is footlong seafood and lobster sub at $5.49. Lobster! I can’t say I ever remember getting lobster at a Subway, much less for under six bucks.

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This was also back in the days when the “sandwich artists” would cut the little “v” into your bread, fill the sandwich with whatever you chose, and then place that little elongated bread pyramid back onto the sandwich. It was especially great on the tuna sandwich, which I would eat while looking at those old photos of subway trains on the shop’s wallpaper.

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However, the real nostalgia here is in those little four-inch round sandwiches Subway used to offer. While the ones listed on this menu cost between 99 cents and $1.99, check out this 1992 commercial in which Subway was offering them for 79 CENTS. I paid more than that to have a postage stamp put on an envelope at the UPS Store (which was Subway's neighbor two doors down) just two days ago.

While Subway will likely never go back to these prices ever again, it’s nice to take a trip down memory lane by taking a look at the menu and remembering how good we once had it, and we didn’t even know it.

Now if I only I could go have a bunch of froyo samples at the Kool Moose Café to help me feel better...