Not all bread has eggs in the recipe. In fact, most bread does not include eggs as an essential ingredient. "Real" French bread (baguette); most Italian and...well, a lot of bread does not use eggs. However, "real" mayo does include egg yolks (not whites). It also includes oil, most often olive oil if homemade, but also canola and other oils. Some of my vegan friends don't want canola or other oils for whatever reason. You have to know your foods if you chose a particular diet.

Seems to me, unless you're a vegan because you're highly allergic to animal products, then the gloves wouldn't matter anyway. I choose not to eat brussel sprouts but I won't not eat something else because it touched a brussel sprout. That's just saying "look at me, I'm special". I thought most chose to be vegans to protect the animals or because they believe the production of the animal products are an issue, so the gloves are irrelevant. If you're that highly against, you wouldn't even support a business that serves meat.

Also, unless you have allergies to meat(does that even exist) it doesn't hurt in the slightest to come into contact with it. Especially if it's through 3 different sources like that.

I know mayo has egg yolks, because I am allergic to eggs and can't eat it. When people like myself are allergic to eggs it's usually the yolks, also most bread does not have egg in it, so I can eat most of it. If it's a new bread or type I haven't heard of, I double check the ingredients to be certain. I do ask them to change their gloves when they make my food because eggs is not the only food allergy I have, if they have been in contact with something I'm allergic to, it's enough to send me out in an ambulance.

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Though this has been mentioned already, just a short insight into baking - egg is a possible but not common ingredient in bread actually. Basic bread is just flour and water(and salt and spices if necessary) really, plus yeast/sourdough(sourdough in its essence also is just water and flour). Eggs are more common to add into pastries, I believe they kind of make the dough more "puffy"(like...light?) and alter taste a tad bit which is nice for those sweet pies, but they also make the resulting dough go stale much faster.

Bread CAN have egg in it but at its most basic form it’s flour, water, salt, a little sugar and yeast. BUT... the thing about that is: yeast is a living organism. It leavens bread by consuming the sugar and producing carbon dioxide as a byproduct which “inflates” the dough. When baked to set the structure, the yeast dies.

You don't use eggs in bread.

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Cesi, I believe you were unecessarily rude. That's not what a decent person would say, regardless on the situation. Shame on you. Sarah, you're good, and you're right. I live in Brazil and we have at least 5 different breads, and I know it changes from country to country. Thanks for you research!

Subway is not the vegan's nightmare - Vegans are everyone else's nightmare...pompous, ignorant, self-entitled and self-indulgent weasels that they are.

Exactly! No one understand NOT to touch the veggies before the meat >< The mixing is the reason my vegetarian parents no longer eat in restaurants that also cook/serve meat.

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@Sarah No most of the breads at Subway are not vegan. Simply not true.There’s only the flatbread and 3 others. And I said it is a nightmare there because there is a lot of cross contamination between meat and veggies. They use the same gloves for both. Duh! You not only can’t write, you can’t read very well either.

You missed the point:the kid told. Her egg whites.