A sandwich at Lola's Chicken Shack, a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +25.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
More bitter 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.
choice of bread, served cold: signature tenders; blue cheese; buffalo sauce; red onion; lettuce; tomato; jalapeño.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 59th |
| acid | 0.4 | 42nd |
| fat | 1.6 | 30th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 42nd |
| umami | 1.9 | 70th |
| heat | 0.4 | 81st |
| bitter | 0.8 | 90th |
88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| choice of bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| signature tendersscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | −2 |
| blue cheesescored as Blue Cheese (gorgonzola) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 bitter 2 creamy soft melty | +4 |
| buffalo sauce | not scored | ||
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
| jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | +3 |
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 + Jalapeño: green heat wakes mild chicken
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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