Is Subway's toppings and offerings would be considered the most typical?

Hi, food nerd here. Honestly sandwiches are too broad of a category for any one store to really have them all.

What Subway mostly sells are what we call cold cut or deli meat sandwiches. Think sliced deli meats, sometimes cheese, some veggies, on horizontally cut bread. That's most of it.

There's several national/large chains that do this as well. Jersey Mikes and Jimmy Johns are just a couple.

Now as for the bigger sandwich conversation, there's burgers, which are their own subset of sandwiches, and stuff that doesn't always neatly fit into definitions. The patty melt, for example, existed before the burger bun did by a couple of decades. So it is a proto-burger that's served on sliced bread.

There's also hot sandwiches, which are sandwiches served with cooked components that are typically made at the time of ordering. Philly cheesesteak, club sandwich, chopped cheese, and so on.

Then there's loose meat sandwiches like the sloppy joe and Maid rite.

This still is lacking as I've not discussed open faced sandwiches, American sandwich staples like PB&J, Mayo mixture sandwiches like egg or tuna salad, and the weirder, often forgotten sandwiches that aren't made anymore.

On that note, one of the coolest channels to show just how insanely huge this topic is would be Sandwiches of History.

https://www.youtube.com/@SandwichesofHistory

There are thousands of sandwiches. Thousands.

If I'm getting a cold cut sandwich I tend to like roast beef with horseradish and cheddar and topped with onions, pickles and tomatoes.