(Jimmy John Liautaud famously developed his business after being given a modest loan from his father for a hot dog stand, but switched to sandwiches because he didn’t have the money for a hot dog stand. But I have to imagine a guy who was developing a sandwich shop on the tightest of margins, with a limited menu, probably thought that adding sprouts to his sandwiches was a good idea. Now, I’m not going to claim that Jimmy John’s, or any other sandwich chain, decided to get into sprouts in an effort to sell you a superfood. “For all intents and purposes, if you ate sprouts for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack, you would barely get eight hundred calories into your system (and feel full) but the equivalent of three thousand to four thousand calories of nutrition relative to other foods,” he wrote. Doug Evans, a nutritionist best known for founding the infamous startup Juicero, wrote an entire book about sprouts last year in which he made a very passionate case for them as the center of a diet. In a way, it’s kind of like you’re eating the basic elements of nutrients.Īnd that has given it a reputation as a superfood. A cup of sprouts is just 8 calories, an amount that for most people will be barely noticeable. It’s particularly useful as a crop that helps that livestock properly produce fertilizer, and it can grow during periods even when other plants are struggling.īut when acquired for the purpose of being a sandwich vegetable, alfalfa adds a little bit of crunch but not a lot of calories. When allowed to grow fully, the alfalfa sprout turns into a flowering plant, one that is particularly important for foraging-it can be used as hay, stored as animal feed, and given to livestock whenever necessary. (via PxFuel) Why sprouts used to be a really attractive ingredient for sandwich shops Today’s GIF is from a video showing how clover sprouts are grown this process is also a great way to grow bacteria. Today’s Tedium discusses how sprouts became the forbidden fruit of Jimmy John’s. As this popular sandwich chain has evolved from a college-town curiosity into a national powerhouse that made its founder a billionaire, the sprouts didn’t make the trip unscathed. It still exists, and is still basically the same … except for one very specific thing: the sprouts. A popular sandwich chain noted for its fast delivery times, this franchise came into my life when I was a midwesterner in college and its menus became ubiquitous sights in dorm room nightstands all throughout the residential halls. One example of such a thing: Jimmy John’s. Today in Tedium: As someone who just turned 40 this year, I’m of a certain old (possibly even geriatric) Millennial era where I’m old enough to have seen things but young enough that most of those things are still around.
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