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Chicken Salad at Sprankles Deli

Homemade chicken salad (baked chicken, celery, carrots, red onion, cranberries, almonds, mayo) on choice of bread. Sandwich Score 39, rough. At Sprankles Deli, Benicia.

Chicken Salad at Sprankles Deli: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Sprankles Deli, a deli in Benicia, California.

Bread (generic)Chicken SaladBread (generic)
39
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +21.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
83
Harmony
38
Contrast
15
Structure
60
Focus
84
Composition
21
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.

choice of bread, served cold: homemade chicken salad (baked chicken, celery, carrots, red onion, cranberries, almonds, mayo) (house-made).

Worth a look: house-made: Chicken Salad.

Balance

salt1.3 · 66thacid0.7 · 56thfat2.0 · 44thsweet0.0umami2.0 · 74thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.366th
acid0.756th
fat2.044th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.074th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

83 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
choice of breadbreadsoftthe frame
homemade chicken salad (baked chicken, celery, carrots, red onion, cranberries, almonds, mayo) (house-made)scored as Chicken Saladproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft tendernot scored

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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