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Crab Seafood at Domenico's Italian Deli

Imitation crab meat, celery, mayo on choice of bread. Sandwich Score 56, solid. At Domenico's Italian Deli, Alameda.

Crab Seafood at Domenico's Italian Deli: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Domenico's Italian Deli, a deli in Alameda, California.

Hoagie RollMayonnaiseCeleryCrabHoagie Roll
56
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +10.

Uncharted, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
81
Harmony
71
Contrast
84
Structure
78
Focus
100
Composition
39
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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: imitation crab meat; celery; mayo.

Balance

salt1.1 · 56thacid0.7 · 56thfat2.0 · 45thsweet0.5 · 61stumami1.4 · 48thheat0.0bitter0.1 · 51st
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.156th
acid0.756th
fat2.045th
sweet0.561st
umami1.448th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.151st

81 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one)breadsoft crustythe frame
imitation crab meatscored as Crabproteinumami 3 salt 2 juicy tender+7
celerytexturecrunchy juicy fresh+7
mayoscored as Mayonnaisesaucefat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy+12

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.

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