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Western Grilled Chicken Sandwich at Lumpy's Diner

Grilled chicken breast, crisp bacon, swiss cheese, ranch dressing on grilled sourdough. Sandwich Score 60, solid. At Lumpy's Diner, Antioch.

Western Grilled Chicken Sandwich at Lumpy's Diner: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.

SourdoughRanch DressingSwiss CheeseBaconChickenSourdough
60
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +31.

Reads as a fully realized chicken bacon melt, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better

Balance
50
Harmony
80
Contrast
60
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
79
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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.

grilled sourdough, toasted: grilled chicken breast; crisp bacon; swiss cheese; ranch dressing (low tier).

Balance

salt1.8 · 81stacid0.3 · 37thfat2.9 · 76thsweet0.0umami2.3 · 84thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.881st
acid0.337th
fat2.976th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.384th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

77 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
grilled sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
grilled chicken breastscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+11
crisp baconscored as Baconproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy+4
swiss cheeseproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty0
ranch dressing (low tier)saucefat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy+5

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.

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