A sandwich at Lola's Chicken Shack, a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, six of six roles on the board.
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
More sweet 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.
bread not stated, served cold: classic tenders; bacon; cheddar; red onion; lettuce; tomato; syrup.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 68th |
| acid | 0.4 | 43rd |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 1.9 | 69th |
| heat | 0.1 | 48th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| classic tendersscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | −3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +20 |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +1 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +14 |
| syrupscored as Maple Syrup | sauce | sweet 5 silky saucy wet | −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 + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Cheddar Cheese: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Maple Syrup: sugar shack law: maple glazes smoke
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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