Subway Spicy Italian & Cheese Jacket Potato

The Subway Spicy Italian & Cheese Jacket Potato costs £8.69 and comes to 656 kcal. That is 158 calories more than the same filling in a six inch sub and £1.30 dearer, which buys you comfortably the most filling version of it.

A baked potato replaces the bread, and most builds in this range include cheese as standard. The filling goes over the top rather than inside a roll, with the salad rail and sauces still available. This is the saltiest filling on the menu in every format, which is what two cured meats cost.

The filling itself is big, salty and peppery, with pepperoni and salami doubled up and no ham to soften them. The potato is soft the whole way through with a firmer skin, so the texture contrast is inside the potato rather than between bread and filling. It eats with a fork, slowly, which is a different proposition from a sandwich entirely.

It suits a proper sit-down lunch and a cold day, and it is the most filling thing on the menu for the money. The catch is portability: this is an eat-in order, and it does not survive a delivery bag the way a cold sandwich does. Cheese comes as standard on most of this range, and it is a good part of why the floor sits where it does.

The obvious comparison is the Spicy Italian sub, which is the saltiest filling in the range in bread. That sub costs £7.39 against £8.69 here. The potato and its standard cheese are where the extra 158 calories come from, not the filling.

A jacket potato costs more than the same filling in bread, and it is also the most filling thing that filling can become. On this one specifically, the saltiest filling in the range is what you are actually buying, and the Jacket Potatoes menu lists every alternative with its own price and calories if you want to compare before ordering.