A sandwich at Waterfront Deli - Alameda, a deli in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More umami 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, toasted: tuna salad; diced tomatoes.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 64th |
| acid | 1.1 | 72nd |
| fat | 1.7 | 31st |
| sweet | 0.3 | 43rd |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
97 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 |
| tuna salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +37 |
| diced tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +35 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.03 short).
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