A sandwich at Domenico's Italian Deli, a deli in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +20.
A hot chicken sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More acid than 90% of the catalog.
Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: house made chicken salad; celery; red onion; pickles; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 80th |
| acid | 2.0 | 90th |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 61st |
| umami | 1.1 | 31st |
| heat | 0.1 | 51st |
| bitter | 0.1 | 57th |
91 Balance, out of 100
The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.
What each layer brings
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| house made chicken saladscored as Chicken Salad | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft tender | +8 |
| celery | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −3 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +7 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +2 |
Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.
Pairings
- Chicken Salad + Pickle (cucumber): fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
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