Defend the Indefensible: Jared of Subway

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Never in my wildest dreams did I think he would have lasted this long as a t.v. entity. Subway: please cease and desist.

Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Nor Jared Harris, then?

It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean NOT. D'oh.

It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

But he's a thin inspiration. A THINSPIRATION!

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

oh god, there is nothing nice to say about this man

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.eurekareporter.com/NewFiles/Jared_04012005_web.jpg

I would hate to be him. Imagine eating THAT much subway, and still have to be around it all the time! And probably eat it too! ICK!

Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I like that face he makes in the new commercial when FRIED chicken is mentioned. I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE WOULD FRY CHICKEN.

laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

(Defense, commence):

Come on, he's a human being. He's trying to help people be healthier any way that they can. If that means eating the same thing every day because they have no idea what foods won't make them weigh 500 pounds, he's helping people. And helping uncreative people who haven't been properly taught how to feed themselves isn't indefensible, right?

That said, I wish he would disappear pronto.

The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder if subway's marketing team is crap b/c jared isn't that marketable. does anyone sympathize with him? feel inspired by him? like him?
plus, it's been a LONG time since his initial weight loss ads were around .. .. .. do we have generations of young'uns that don't even know who he is?!

kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

the subway account is a bit of a joke in the adworld -- they are renowned for steadfastly clinging to jared as their spokesperson. any slight deviations they've made from him in the past have resulted in analagous sales dips, so there's something to their conservatism.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT

STOP SAYING THAT (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

hasn't it been revealed that jared fogle isn't his original name? he went through some "see the light" experience where he dropped weight and changed his name, there was some website about the creepiness

mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

He's less annoying when he's telling his own story than when he's acting in those MMM-I-LOVE-EATING-SUBWAY-SANDWICHES-SO-MUCH commercials. however, that's not really saying much...

lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Why would you change your name to "Jared Fogle"?

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe he lost a bet.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.subway.co.jp/jared/image/img11.gif

I'M HI, JARED FOGLE (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i still think it was totally brave of him to testify in front of those senate sandwich hearings they way he did... took some real guts.

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

But he has no guts! Because of the:

SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT
SIX INCH CHICKEN TERIYAKI
SIX INCH VEGGIE DELIGHT

David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I will take dancing rats with superimposed lips shilling for sandwiches over this Steve Bartman wannabe fat fuck.

Oh, defend him? I guess the fact that I'm still free to roam the streets because I haven't flattened his face with a shovel yet is a good thing.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

His teeth in that poster reminds me of the Alien monster's teeth...

Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

He is a great American success story! He lost weight by eating fast food and became a famous television personality as a result! It could happen to you!

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

He looks like someone tried to teach him how to smile, and taught him badly.

The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

He's easier to ignore than a lot of other in-your-face annoying TV personalities.

alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I for one, would love to get a good paying job like that. You can't blame him. He went from being a tub of goo, to being reasonably fit, and now he gets paid to say he likes a product. God, milk that for all it's worth Jared...

Draw Tipsy to see if you give a shit about art (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Milkmaid utterly OTM. Jared OTM about why fried chicken is "bad." My main problem with Subway is that they don't state clearly enough that if you want Jared-like success, you need to hold the cheese, mayo, oil and soybean oil based sauces.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

If Jared manages to convince those Senators he's testifying in front of to outlaw fried chicken then I will destroy him.

laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I kind of feel sorry for him, annoying as he is. Imagine having to eat as much Subway as he must, it's a soul destroying business.

Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

J'agree the smile is hideous.

Now, is it my imagination or is he hiding a bit of a belly in the latest round of ads? Those tuna subs have over a thousand calories you know.

everything, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

he has the grossest lips of any living human

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

He did look a little bit heavier in the latest commercials.

Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

HE'S JUST A MAN WHO LOVES FAME, SANDWICHES AND MONEY - WTF IS WRONG WITH THAT?! - THAT IS THE AMERICAN DREAM

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

d'ream

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Subway is deceitful in the grams of fat: "Addition of cheese or condiments may alter fat content..." Who doesn't add some kind of condiment?

Yeah, and Jared needs a stiff kick in the groin.

andy -, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

hilarious Achewood strip about Subway using Jared in their advertisements:

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=01172003

Uncledoj, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"hilarious Achewood strip"

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

apparently the american dream has been amended to "fame, money, sandwiches and shit-tons of babysitting work"

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Subway is deceitful in the grams of fat: "Addition of cheese or condiments may alter fat content..." Who doesn't add some kind of condiment?

Well, you could have mustard. Also, many condiments/sauces (ketchup, BBQ, salsa) are fat-free (but not calorie free).

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

What's great about that photo in the ad is that you know that was the best shot they got out of that session. The rest of the pictures made children cry.

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

In Jared's defense: on that Triumph the Insult Comic Dog live DVD thing, Jared takes his zings like a man, while the "Dell Dude" douchebag tries very, very unsuccessfully to retort Triumph, which, might I remind you, is a puppet with a man's hand up it's ass.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

He can buy and sell you several times over.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

if him and the Verizon weezer guy are crossing the street in front of my whilst I drive and I'm forced to run over one of them, it ain't gonna be Jared.

gear (gear), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I love though how, though he's lost all the weight, Jared's mouth remains ginormous enough that he might eat several bags of dicks in one bite, were he so inclined.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for the visual, nickalish.

kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Just a moment! Quality of Subway aside, I like Jared, because he has a quality much ignored and passed over, esp. in the world of advertising - mildness. He can't even muster anger at the Chicken Selects. Imagine if every fucking EXTREME commercial were replaced by something mild, like Jared or the Motel 6 guy.

G. Litwack, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

At least they haven't resorted to talking action figures/lawn gnomes

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

or a guy in a rubber king suit that says "Meeeeheeeatnormous, CHEEEESEnormOUS"

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I just wouldn't want to hear Jared say that I mean.

the BK is awesome

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

the bitties! the begging, the scrounging!

mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

First of all, Subway sucks. You can start with their corrugated cardboard bread, if you like.

Second of all, if I hear anyone compare this fuckhead Jared with TOM BODET, MOTHERFUCKER EXTREME again, it'll be too soon.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

In the Sodexo cafeteria in my building, there is a standee of a smiling woman with the nearly-illegible signature 'Ellie' scrawled on it. She'd be a good fit for the job, I think.

how's life, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link

I've talked to my people, Whiney is a lock for the new spokesperson

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link

can't go wrong with an ellie

she just likes healthy sandwiches

j., Friday, 21 August 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-470153.html

ran across this following something from a Gawker leak - I understand coping mechanisms but it's amazing how many people are convinced their husband/kid/brother is doing 5-10 because "some guy" sent him kiddie porn and it's a goddamn witch hunt/etc..

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 21 August 2015 06:59 (eight years ago) link

FB feed now full of the pic of him with GWB, like this implicates GWB as a pedalo or something.

suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 21 August 2015 08:49 (eight years ago) link

Well, you do remember when a first lady killed a bunch of dudes and buried them under the White House.

http://i.imgur.com/sCLPS5E.jpg

pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link

Funny enough, GWB's wife only first lady to have actually killed a dude.

pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link

that we know about, at least - roslynn carter looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets to me

bizarro gazzara, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

What's great about that photo in the ad is that you know that was the best shot they got out of that session. The rest of the pictures made children cry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, July 27, 2005 5:45 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Leophoenix post of the thread

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 26 September 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

ten years ago, if someone had told me that in ten years I would read the news headline 'Jared Fogle beaten in prison brawl,' I would've lol'd in disbelief

today, I lol in belief

del griffith, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link

Think he's gotten any prison ink yet?

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link

crowing over the mistreatment of a prisoner, no matter what he or she has done, is a bad look, fellas.

wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link

most fucked up part of the story i read about was an allusion to the apparently evil stepmother of the guy who beat him up:

Nigg, who is serving time for a gun conviction tied to a decades-old Arizona crime spree, walked away from fracas unscathed, save for a cut-up hand, but was punished with solitary confinement, the site reported.

Nigg is slated for a 2024 release from federal custody while Fogle will have to wait out an additional five years to wrap up his sentence for charges related to possessing child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes.

Nigg initially served time from 1976 to 1990 when he and an accomplice robbed a Maricopa County motel clerk, two convenience stores and a gas station. He moved to Wausau, Wis., where his father had lived, married a woman and began working at a consignment shop.

When his father died, Nigg’s string of good luck ran out, according to his appeal in the Seventh Circuit court.

“In a somewhat cruel twist of fate, the estate included over 120 firearms,” according to court documents.

Through his shop, he sold two guns to a private investigator hired by his stepmother. The sale led to his arrest and an eventual guilty plea.

nomar, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link

Well it sure will be wild when Jared gets released and his great-uncle dies, bequeathing to him a huge pile of C.P.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link

And that stepmother? Mrs. Ethel Fogle, the birth mother of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle. And that's the rest of the story. Good day!

Horse Throat (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link

lol

I kinda miss Paul Harvey

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link

crowing over the mistreatment of a prisoner, no matter what he or she has done, is a bad look, fellas.

Word.

bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2016 04:39 (eight years ago) link

interpol predicted this years ago

― polyphonic, Wednesday, August 19, 2015

just saw this.

scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link

I am still confused by how long the investigation went on before the FBI actually arrested him. I feel like the conversations that woman recorded would have been enough to justify a search warrant.

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 06:13 (eight years ago) link

I guess they were "building a case" so they could seriously nail him with manor charges. Still seems odd to leav someone like that at large for so long when we're locking up drug offenders.

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 06:17 (eight years ago) link

lol i read that and went "what did fred durst do?"

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 March 2016 06:37 (eight years ago) link

how soon we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGI9NbH-mk

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 06:38 (eight years ago) link

just this week i have had long conversations w both a prison guard and a parolee (for a sexual offense), and pretty much everything you've heard about prison violence is true, or worse

jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link

Is that Tool video accurate, that's what I want to know.

pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link

haven't a clue

what i did hear is that in the first few weeks of imprisonment, in the diagnostic unit where long-term housing determinations are made, prisoners didn't typically know that their fellow inmates had been convicted of. unless, that is, they were sex offenders, in which case the guards would pin up newspaper clippings to the bulletin board

jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link

just wanna clear my good name here and say that I'm not advocating prison violence, no sir, not my style. I'm just saying that regardless of circumstance, everything the personality Jared Fogle ever does, whether that includes being beaten in a prison brawl or just sitting there peacefully in a comfy chair with his hands folded and his big ol Jared Fogle face all over his face, it will be funny

del griffith, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link

i can think of a few things he's done that aren't, and never can be, funny

jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link

Prison violence is a disgrace no matter who the target is.

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link

prison violence is actually extremely lit

extremely online (Lamp), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link

I had been avoiding this story and am boggling that Jared got beat up by someone named Nigg (who I really, really hope is not black)

i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link

he is not (afaik)

There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link

Is he Vietnamese?

pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link

Violence is bad no matter who gets beaten, the race of the assailant, the name of the assailant, whether the violence occurred inside or outside of a prison, or whether or not the victim likes sandwiches or child pornography or child prostitution, that's my opinion on the issue

del griffith, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

cosigned

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link

i don't feel bad for him exactly but man jared fogle has got to be #1 on the "least suited for a prison fight" list

nomar, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

I am against the death penalty and do not advocate this in any way but does anyone really think he's going to survive in prison for 5 years cuz I don't

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link

i'm not sure but i think he's more likely to die of a heart attack than a shiv

nomar, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

also he's in there til 2029 at the minimum, he'd be released when he's in his early fifties.

nomar, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

he's going to starve without sweet onion teriyaki sauce

There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

Treeship kool-aid mans into thread with "guys, have some empathy for the child-fucking sandwich man"

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link

i'm opposed to the horrific conditions in america's prisons, what can i say

btw i'm glad i caught you. the other day when i came home my roommate tried to put glasses on his pitbull to take a photo of it. the dog was already wearing one of other friend's plaid shirts. this hipster puppies trend has really lasted

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link

second part was not a burn. anyone who knows me knows i love dogs and pictures of dogs.

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link

Yeahhh, I guess I'm just the kind of person who thinks that good things are good and bad things are bad. I suppose I'm a lot like Jesus Christ in that way? What can I say...

del griffith, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link

i don't understand the controversy here

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link

i won't begrudge anyone a bit of schadenfreude about terrible things happening to terrible people, it just shouldn't be institutionalized

jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link

yeah, that's fair

Treeship, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link

right, prison abuse is awful for many of the same reasons that capital punishment is awful. the state shouldn't be in the business of institutionalizing retribution.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 18 March 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link


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