A sandwich at The Sandwich Spot Menlo College, a sandwich shop in Atherton, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +16.
Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
−12 sauce overload
More salt 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: salami; bacon; ham; cream cheese; honey mustard (low tier); kassi sauce; bomb sauce; chronic caesar sauce (low tier); mayo; mustard; secret sauce; lettuce; tomato; pickles; onions; peppers.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Bomb Sauce, Secret Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 1.5 | 88th |
| fat | 2.4 | 59th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 68th |
| umami | 1.7 | 62nd |
| heat | 0.4 | 82nd |
| bitter | 0.2 | 58th |
100 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 |
| salami | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 chewy silky | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +1 |
| cream cheese | fat | fat 4 creamy silky smooth | 0 |
| honey mustard (low tier) | sauce | sweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth | 0 |
| kassi saucescored as Garlic Sauce | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | −14 |
| bomb sauce | not scored | ||
| chronic caesar sauce (low tier)scored as Caesar Dressing | sauce | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 acid 2 creamy saucy | −14 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −16 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | 0 |
| secret sauce | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −2 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| peppersscored as Pepper (bell/hot) | texture | heat 3 crunchy juicy | 0 |
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
- Salami + Ham: salami and ham, the deli's double cure
- Salami + Honey Mustard: hot mustard against fatty salami
- Bacon + Honey Mustard: sweet mustard against smoke
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Ham + Honey Mustard: deli constant: hot mustard on cured pork
- Ham + Pickle (cucumber): the cubano lesson: brine cuts cured pork
- Cream Cheese + Pickle (cucumber): tea sandwich core: cool on cool
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
- Onion + Pepper (bell/hot): peppers and onions, the griddle pair
How to raise it
- Clear the board: sauce overload (-12).
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