Your Jaw Will Drop When You Hear What Subway Just Announced About Their Tuna Sandwiches–WHAT Is Happening?!

Subway is doubling down on its claims that the tuna salad on its menu comes from 100% tuna–despite a New York Times lab testing that found “no amplifiable tuna DNA” in the stuff. Forget the chicken sandwich wars, the tuna sandwich wars are heating up!

ICYMI, Subway is in a bitter legal battle to defend their seafood name in California. Two plaintiffs in a class-action case, Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin, claim that they have “been deceived and suffered economic injury” because the tuna on the sandwich chain’s menu *does not* contain tuna sourced from fisheries “with non-threatened stock levels,” such as skipjack and yellowfin tuna, like its website claims. The lawsuit alleges that it actually is made up of a “mixture of various concoctions.” (Editor’s note: what does that even mean?!)

Flash forward to last week, when the NYT published a piece called “The Big Tuna Sandwich Mystery,” in which they conducted a lab test of 60 inches of Subway tuna sandwiches purchased at three Los Angeles restaurant locations. The paper claims that the lab was unable to identify any five tuna species it tested for. Eep!

Now, before you start jumping to conclusions (and getting your tuna salad elsewhere, or even better, going vegan), the paper had one big caveat with the results: tuna DNA may not even be something you can test for. Twist!