The Subway Effect

How life gets better without anyone noticing

Image adapted from photo by Matheus Bardemaker on Unsplash

For a good portion of my childhood, Subway was my favorite fast food restaurant. And I wasn’t alone.

The chain exploded in popularity sometime in the late 90’s or early 2000’s.

You could get $5 footlongs. Jared Fogle was blowing everyone’s mind with how much weight he lost eating nothing but fast food. The…