Subway given sandwich course in measuring feet and inches 賽百味被上了一堂三明治尺寸測量課

Subway given sandwich course in measuring feet and inches 
賽百味被上了一堂三明治尺寸測量課
2013-04-05◎張沛元

The U.S. fast-food chain Subway got caught up in an online furor after an Australian teenager measured his "footlong" Subway sandwich and found that it was an inch （2.54 cm） short.
在一名澳洲青少年測量他的「呎長」賽百味三明治、並發現少了1吋（2.54公分）長後，美國速食連鎖店賽百味捲入網路怒潮。

Matt Corby’s photo of the sandwich next to a tape measure attracted hundreds of thousands of likes and hundreds more comments when he posted it on Subway’s Facebook fanpage.
麥特˙寇比的三明治旁放著捲尺的照片，吸引成千上萬人按讚；當他把這張照片貼到賽百味的臉書粉絲專頁後，還有更多人回覆。

In response, Subway Australia said the "Subway Footlong" was a registered trademark "as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length."
澳洲賽百味對此回應說，「賽百味呎長」只是一個登記商標，用來形容在賽百味餐廳所販賣的潛艇堡三明治，而非意指（三明治的）長度尺寸。

Angry sandwich fans quickly took to the Internet to knock the company’s response.
憤怒的三明治粉絲馬上上網反擊該公司的回應。

"I refuse to eat at restaurants where I need to bring a measuring tape to choose my bread," said Phil Tripp.
「我拒絕在我得自備捲尺來選麵包的餐廳吃東西，」菲力普˙崔普說。

And John Ralph made the case for the necessity of that extra inch： "An inch or two can mean a big difference ... if the Titanic had missed the iceberg by an inch or two it wouldn’t have sunk." （Reuters）
約翰˙羅夫則提出（麵包）必須多1吋的充分理由：「1吋或2吋的差別可大了…要是差個1或2吋，鐵達尼號就能避開冰山，不會沉沒了。」（路透）

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