How to get unlimited bacon

I’ve worked at Subway® for almost a year now and I have realized a loophole that could give consumers unlimited meat for cheap!

According to Subway®’s website, the sandwich with the most meat is the Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt, clocking in at 277 grams per 6–inch sub.

Source: http://www.subway.com/en-us/menunutrition/nutrition

Double meat at a Subway® for a footlong is a measly $3.00.

Knowing math… Double meat grows exponentially as it compounds. So in Big-O notation, the price grows linearly…

Source: http://www.101computing.net/big-o-notation/

Whereas the amount of meat grows exponentially…

Source: http://www.101computing.net/big-o-notation/

Let’s say you start with a footlong Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt, which contains 554 grams of meat. The amount of meat a consumer can buy as a function of the amount of double meat purchases can be expressed as the mathematical function:

y_m = 0.554 * 2^n

Where y_m is the amount of meat a consumer gets in kilograms, and n is the amount of double meat purchases.

Since a footlong Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt costs $9.59, and double meat costs $3.00 as mentioned earlier, the amount a consumer pays, can be expressed as the function:

y_d = 9.59 + 3*n

This loophole can be exploited to buy all the chicken and bacon on planet Earth!

According to Our World in Data, our planet produced 112.33 million tons of pig meat and 109.02 million tons of poultry in 2013. Let us assume that all of poultry production was chicken meat, and all of pig meat production was used for bacon…

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consumption

First, to calculate the amount of double meats needed to deplete the Earth of its chicken and pork meat production capacity, assuming roughly the same amount of pork and chicken is used in a Subway® sandwich, we can substitute y_m with 221.35 * 10⁹ (kg), which is the total amount of chicken and pork produced in 2013, and solve for n.

221.35 * 10⁹ = 0.554 * 2^n

2^n = 399.55 * 10⁹

n = log(399.55 * 10⁹) / log(2)

n = 38.5

Since we’re so rich, we could round that up to 39 double meat purchases.

Source: https://giphy.com/gifs/make-it-rain-money-nkdiORALQQtOM

Finally, we can calculate the total cost of the Earth’s pork and chicken production capacity in 2013.

y_d = 9.59 + 3 * 39 = $126.59

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX DOLLARS.

So next time a politician claims to not have enough money to feed the poor, call out their bullshit and ask: “Have you tried Subway®?”