Topeka ? A trip to a Subway sandwich store in Oregon left one Kansas resident with a case of indigestion.

It wasn’t the food, it was the sign Joe Davis, of Topeka, saw on Oct. 2 when he was paying for his order at the Subway in Reedsport, Ore.

The sign, which was promoting a new salmon sandwich, included the line “Another reason you’re lucky not to live in Kansas.”

“I was a little offended,” Davis said.

The sign appeared to be professionally produced and carried the Subway logo, Davis said.

After returning to Topeka, he e-mailed Subway to ask for an explanation.

“I asked them simple questions, like, ‘Do you have more than one reason that people are lucky not to live in Kansas?’ That opened a Pandora’s box for me,” he said.

“I said, ‘Why did you separate us out? And why would you do that when you have several of your restaurants in our state?”‘

Davis said he never got a response from Subway.

Subway spokesman Kevin Kane said the sign apparently wasn’t produced by the corporation’s national advertising firm but may have been created by a regional company. Subway offered the salmon sandwich for a limited time in Midwest and Northwest states, but not Kansas, he said.

“We’re going to look into it,” he said. “Sometimes, when you put something like that together, you try to get clever, but nothing we do should be offensive. If it offended anybody, I apologize.”

It’s the second time this year a national chain has drawn fire from Topeka.

In September, a birthday card produced by Hallmark upset Topeka officials. The cartoon-style card was labeled “CSI: Topeka” and showed a crime scene investigator suggesting that a corpse had been “bored to death.”

In response, Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten said the card probably had been drawn by “somebody from West Virginia who hasn’t been here.”

That remark prompted 125 angry e-mails to Bunten, most of them from West Virginians who accused him of disparaging their state.