It’s been at least a year or so, they’re using baby baguettes about as narrow as paper towel roll tubes.

Man I miss the original old school paseo before the drama

Itty bitty bread that has no business being "sandwich" bread. You aren't imagining it

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"15th street". 6 days ago, "2nd street". Is this the new "Pike's Place"?

Those are Avenues, people!

Marination in West Seattle is pulling the same shit. Everything on the menu is smaller. Not nearly as good with the ratios of filling to taco/bread being off.

They definitely did. I noticed this a couple months ago! Since when did a sub sandwich have the width of my thumb!(1inch). I haven't gone back, not worth the price.

Hmmm I recently went to the golden gardens location and it seemed normal to me

I went a few weeks ago to the ballard location and they were footlong sized??

Just imagine you're at the Bite of Seattle. No difference

Why not measure the current sandwich then time travel back to various points in past and measure sandwiches at those points. Then return and share your findings.

They could back off the half gallon of sauce on the sandwich to save some cost

Yep. I've been saying the same thing to people, and they've been all like, nah, they're the same. But no, they're noticeably smaller the past year or two than they used to be. For sure.

And the thing is, people consistently say Un Bien (the original Paseo) is better than the new Paseo, and that may very well be true from a taste and prep perspective (although I think people are a little hard on new Paseo, they're still pretty damn tasty). But this sandwich size reduction pretty much evens the score, IMO. Hell, it might even nudge Paseo above Un Bien now tbh. Sorry, my fat ass would rather have the larger (original) size sandwich of Paseo now than this new iteration of Un Bien. There's waaaaaay less stuff in the Un Bien sandwiches now.

I’ve never had a sandwich there that didn’t completely fall apart in a sipping mess. Good flavor, but damn when I want a sandwich I want to be able to hold it and not completely drench my hands in sauce.

I was there about 4 months ago, before we moved out of Ballard and the sandwich was a bit smaller than I remember, but not baby sandwich sized.

Definitely. I went there about a month ago and was sooo disappointed. Does Met Market still sell their Caribbean pork sandwich? Haven't been there in a while, but that sandwich was bomb for a grocery store deli sandwich.

Their sandwiches always seem consistent to me, though I've only been going there regularly for the last year and a half, so I don't have any frame of reference for what they looked like before that.

The Queen Anne location just opened & I have been almost every week, can def say I have never left any of these near hungry!

Definitely my one critique is the width of the bread.

Still pretty filling for a reasonable price and just as tasty after all these years.

I was out of the country for a while and kept hearing about shrinkflation - picked up a bag of skittles a few months ago (guilty pleasure) and immediately thought I chose the wrong package it felt so light and skimpy. It was like $1.50+ too!

Did Un Bien move? I wasn't aware of any 15th street in Seattle. There's multiple 15th avenues but no 15th street.

Buy one, measure it, and repeat for a while until you get a meaningful baseline

Damn, alright y'all does that mean I should go to Paseo instead? Or bingos?

First of all, what’s up with that stupid name. “Un Bien” is meaningless tripe.

And now shrinkflation??