A wrap at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +14.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
flour tortilla, toasted: grilled chicken; signature spicy bbq sauce; cheddar jack cheese; lettuce; tomatoes; tortilla strips (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 0.9 | 64th |
| fat | 1.6 | 29th |
| sweet | 1.0 | 90th |
| umami | 1.8 | 65th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 40th |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| flour tortillascored as Tortilla | bread | soft | the frame |
| grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +8 |
| signature spicy bbq saucescored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +13 |
| cheddar jack cheesescored as Cheddar Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +15 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +7 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +12 |
| tortilla strips (low tier)scored as Potato Chips | texture | salt 4 fat 3 crunchy crispy | −9 |
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 + BBQ Sauce: bbq chicken: sweet smoke glaze on a mild bird
- BBQ Sauce + Cheddar Cheese: sharp cheddar stands up to sweet bbq
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.06 short).
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