Right now, I’m chillin’ like a villain who gave every superhero an ass whippin’ because I just ate what I consider to be one of the best Subway sandwiches I’ve ever had — their Western Egg & Cheese.
I don’t understand how a sandwich so simple could stimulate my taste buds in a way I haven’t experienced in a long time with a Subway sandwich. The Western Egg & Cheese consists of only ham, cheese, eggs, red onions, and green bell peppers in between a flatbread.
I’m surprised it didn’t come with some kind of barbecue sauce, because if eating fast food has taught me anything besides eating fast food is bad for me, it’s that any fast food item with “western” in its name must have barbecue sauce, like the Burger King Western BBQ Cheeseburger and Hardee’s Western Bacon Thickburger. But, again, it doesn’t have any, nor does Subway offer barbecue sauce, so it appears they’re breaking one of the cardinal rules of fast food.
Since there’s no barbecue sauce, I wondered why Subway called it the Western Egg & Cheese. To find out, I put on my cowboy hat and leather chaps, which were probably unnecessary because finding out didn’t involve riding a horse, or even going outside. It just involved me, a computer, and Google.
It turns out there’s a dish called the Western omelet, which is filled with ham, onions, and green bell peppers. I didn’t know about it because I know it as the Denver omelet. If I was a foodie, I probably would’ve known that Western and Denver omelets are the same. Also, if I was a foodie, I probably wouldn’t eat a Subway Western Egg & Cheese, instead I would turn up my nose at Subway and head to a weird part of town where there’s a quaint, hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop that has many five star reviews on Yelp, crappy parking, and for some reason is closed on Tuesdays.
I’ve eaten enough Subway sandwiches to span across the length of several football fields, and with most of them they need mayo, mustard, or some kind of sauce to make them palatable. But with the Western Egg & Cheese no liquid condiment is necessary. The red onions and bell peppers do a wonderful job of giving the sandwich flavor, but not overpowering the cheese, ham, and egg. The flatbread is tasty, warm, and soft, but doesn’t fall apart easily like other flatbreads.
Sure, the eggs patties they use look unnatural and look like they came from a giant egg from the Flintstones, and a Western Egg & Cheese footlong has over 2,400 milligrams of sodium, but even with those faults, I still think it’s a really good Subway sandwich.
Item: Subway Western Egg & Cheese
Price: $6.00
Size: Footlong
Purchased at: Subway
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 6″ with egg whites – 350 calories, 80 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 1,200 milligrams of sodium, 46 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and 24 grams of protein
I can personally attest to the quality of this sandwhich, I like the egg white version and I usually add tomatoes and black pepper to finish
I picked egg whites because I wanted to try to make this sandwich healthy. While there’s a whole lot less cholesterol, the egg whites give the sandwich more sodium.
Which baffles the crap outta me, considering egg whites don’t have salt…(or at least they’re not supposed to)
I’d still like tobasco sauce on mine.
I’mma keep it pure and avoid any condiment. it’s like an angel sandwich.
My go-to Subway breakfast order is steak, egg white, red onion, pepper and cheese…so your sandwich with a meat swap. Oh, and I add SW sauce…because it is delicious.
I stopped going to Subway for breakfast by myself because the one by my house keeps getting robbed. True story.
Subway actually should have barbecue sauce. They used to adverstise a sandwich with sweet bbq sauce (not the pulled pork, some other sandwich). I can’t remember what it was, but the stores around me still have the sauce.
How is there so much sodium?
The cheese? The eggs?
Thats more than a whopper holy hell.
It’s in the ham.
This looks very good, but I think I keep thinking that big blob of egg white is actually a giant wad of cheese.
If it’s from Denver, doesn’t that make it an eastern omelet.
Or do you go the long way around?
Denver is west of anywhere that matters. 😉
Hmmm, the 24 grams of protein makes this a good post-workout investment.
Lol, love the thought that anything with western in the name must have barbecue sauce. Considering that subway has more food product than food, the thing does not sound that bad.
$6?
I had one of these today ($5 footlong version on one of their rolls). Not too bad–didn’t go with raw onions, just peppers and jalapenos. They definitely have barbecue sauce, but I went with the chipotle stuff. The egg tasted better than it looked, which was kinda weird, being a big round floppy white disk.