A sandwich at Helacio's Deli & Cafe, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
dutch crunch roll, served cold: tuna salad; lettuce; tomato; red onion; pickles; mayo; mustard.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 83rd |
| acid | 2.3 | 90th |
| fat | 1.5 | 27th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 65th |
| umami | 1.3 | 43rd |
| heat | 0.4 | 81st |
| bitter | 0.3 | 75th |
97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dutch crunch roll | bread | soft crackly crusty | the frame |
| tuna salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +22 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +6 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +2 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +6 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −1 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Pickle (cucumber): relish logic: sour crunch in rich tuna
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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