Today I decided to order my lunch online so I went to GimmeGrub.com and started clicking away. Much to my delight, one of the “extra” items on the menu from Togos Sandwiches was bacon. I assembled a minimal turkey & swiss on honey wheat bread, adding only lettuce and pickles – no condiments.

“Too dry” some might say. Maybe, but if I really wanted to evaluate the quality of bacon at Togos, I didn’t want to mask the taste with extra flavors.

At first glance the bacon quantity, quality, and distribution were not that impressive. The shredded lettuce made redistributing the bacon a futile effort, but it also gave me an idea. Remove the bacon from half of the sandwich and test its quality without the other tastes getting in the way.

A total of three strips of bacon were on the sandwich. With the haphazard distribution I basically had 1.5 strips of thin, listless bacon once I removed them from one half of the sandwich.

The bacon itself was too salty, cold, and overcooked for my taste. In fact, I still have the salty aftertaste as I’m writing this review. I’d have to give the bacon from Togos a Smaste™ rating of 19.375. Edible and fun once in a while but definitely not something to have on a regular basis.

–Corey James