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Beef & Lamb Gyro Snack at D'Yar

Lamb gyro, creamy sauce, onion, pickles on Pita. Sandwich Score 43, rough. At D'Yar, Berkeley.

A wrap at D'Yar, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

PitaPickle (cucumber)OnionPita
43
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +36.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
53
Harmony
42
Contrast
81
Structure
72
Focus
75
Composition
26
Quality
100
Envelope
79

More acid 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.

Pita (bread not stated on the menu), served cold: lamb gyro; creamy sauce; onion; pickles.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Gyro Meat, Creamy Sauce.

Balance

salt2.2 · 90thacid2.9 · 90thfat0.0sweet0.9 · 87thumami0.2 · 4thheat0.2 · 64thbitter0.2 · 59th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.290th
acid2.990th
fat0.0n/a
sweet0.987th
umami0.24th
heat0.264th
bitter0.259th

53 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
Pitabreadsoft chewythe frame
lamb gyronot scored
creamy saucenot scored
oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+5
picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber)acidacid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled+4

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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