I’ve eaten Subway for decades. Today’s offering is a joyless abomination of its former glory

‘What other fun features will Subway gradually strip away from its dining experience?’ Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

I’ve been eating Subway sandwiches for a quarter of a century. Mainly out of habit.

2001 Subway was something else: booth seating, ceiling fans with gold trim, leafy green house plants, faux brick and black-and-white New York cityscape wallpaper with a repeating Empire State Building frieze. Ahh.