Court: Subway ‘bread’ not actually bread

Subway 'bread' not bread, court rules

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 file photo, the Subway logo is seen on a soft drink cup next to a sandwich at a restaurant in Londonderry, N.H. Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread.AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

A European high court has declared that Subway’s bread is not, in fact, bread.

Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled this week that Subway’s bread doesn’t meet the country’s legal definition of bread because it has too much sugar, The Associated Press reports. Ireland legally defines bread because of a tax exemption related to its status as an “staple food.”

Irish Subway franchisee Bookfinders Ltd. brought the case, claiming Subway bread - and some of its other products - should qualify as a staple food, which would make it exempt from the country’s value-added tax and therefore save the company money, the report said.

Subway’s bread has five-times more sugar than what is allowed under Ireland’s legal definition. All varieties of Subway bread have 10% sugar content compared to the 2% allowed to call it bread, the report said. Therefore, it does not qualify as bread and is not exempt from the value-added tax, the court said in the Sept. 29 ruling.

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