Here’s the Smokehouse BBQ Chicken blueprint: shredded white-meat chicken sopping with barbecue sauce, lettuce, tomatoes and red onions on your choice of Subway’s bread. May I suggest a plain white loaf?

Total calories: 380. Fat grams: 6. Sodium: 950 mg. Dietary fiber: 5 g. Carbs: 57 g. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: $4.

First off … off with those toppings. The Smokehouse BBQ Chicken looks, tastes and feels like a North Carolina pulled pork sandwich, and no self-respecting pulled pork sandwich has lettuce, tomato and red onions on it.

Subway doesn’t offer the proper topping — cole slaw — so play it safe and order it plain. All right, OK, get pickles for their crunch. I won’t quibble. In fact, ask your “sandwich artist” for extra pickles. This sandwich needs something more than just chicken and sauce.

Cole slaw isn’t the only thing missing here — where’s the soul? This sandwich doesn’t have the heartbeat and tradition of a classic North Carolina pulled pork sandwich. So just grab a bag of baked chips and a soda, and pay at the cashier. The line is backing up.

The footlong Smokehouse BBQ Chicken is $6, a nifty bargain, so that’s the smart play. You’ll wind up eating the whole thing anyway.

Like with all Subway sandwiches, there’s not a lot of wiggle room in building the Smokehouse BBQ Chicken sub. Everything is done according to the rule book, and the chicken is cooked and pre-portioned off-campus.

The shredded chicken is real, not McNugget goop, and it’s free of extra fat and cartilage. The chicken for this sandwich is slow-cooked and definitely more tender than the rubbery breast pieces used in other Subway subs.

The sauce does have a measure of Carolina-style vinegary snap, with an extra dose of sweetness. You might find there’s too much sauce and not enough chicken. Hello, you’re at Subway.

The Smokehouse BBQ Chicken sub weighs in at only 6 grams of fat, so it’s part of Subway’s Fresh Fit Menu of skinny sandwiches.

Your “sandwich artist” will ask if you want this sandwich toasted. Absolutely, yes. I asked to have mine run twice though the blast furnace.

The trouble with Subway: There’s not a lot of artistry going on here. Certain sandwiches, mostly the ones with sauce, don’t look like the picture on the back wall. This is one of those.