A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +13.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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: fresh tuna salad; lettuce; tomato; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 1.2 | 79th |
| fat | 2.5 | 64th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 1.9 | 70th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 48th |
98 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 |
| fresh tuna saladscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +8 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +15 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +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
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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