A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +12.
Reads as a fully realized club, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
3 slices toasted white bread, toasted: ham; turkey; crisp bacon; swiss cheese; american cheese (low tier); mayo; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 89th |
| acid | 0.4 | 41st |
| fat | 2.8 | 74th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 47th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | 36th |
82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 slices toasted white bread (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +4 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +2 |
| crisp baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −7 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −4 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | −12 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −3 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +4 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
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
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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