Subway BBQ Pulled Pork

The Subway BBQ Pulled Pork costs £7.79 and comes to 346 kcal in a six inch, which makes it the lightest thing in the Signature range by a clear margin and one of the better protein figures on it too. Slow cooked pork in barbecue sauce, and unusually for this part of the menu, the rest is up to you.

It is the only Signature listing that says create your own rather than naming a fixed build, so the pork arrives already sauced and everything after it is a counter decision: bread, cheese, the free salad rail, and any additional sauce. That makes it the most flexible sub on the Signature board and the one most worth thinking about at the counter.

The taste is sweet and smoky with the tang barbecue sauce brings, and the texture is soft strands rather than slices, so it packs into the bread and eats evenly. It is rich without being heavy, which the calorie figure backs up. Toasted, the sauce caramelises slightly against the bread and it improves noticeably.

It suits anyone who wants the flavour of an indulgent sub without the numbers of one, which is a narrow and useful niche. The catch is sweetness: this is the sweetest savoury sub on the menu, so red onion and something sharp are genuinely worth adding rather than optional garnish.

Its closest relative on the Sandwiches menu is the Honey Mustard BBQ, which takes a similar sweet and smoky idea and layers chicken and bacon into a fixed build for more money and more calories. The plain Rotisserie-Style Chicken is the lighter, plainer alternative if the sweetness is not what you are after.

The value case is strong: a Signature sub at close to classic prices, the lightest of its range, and enough protein to hold up as a proper lunch. If you have written off the Signature board as the indulgent end of the menu, this is the sub that argues otherwise.