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Pecan Butter & Jam at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo)

House-made pecan butter, boysenberry jam on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 13, chaos. At Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), Berkeley.

A sandwich at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), a bakery in Berkeley, California.

Jam (jelly, preserv…Bread (generic)
13
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · chaos

Chaos, with one move worth +62.

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

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

Balance
45
Harmony
26
Contrast
55
Structure
41
Focus
84
Composition
22
Quality
100
Envelope
76

−25 condiments only

More sweet 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.

bread not stated, toasted: house-made pecan butter; boysenberry jam.

Worth a look: house-made: NEW:Pecan Butter; ingredient not in the pantry: Pecan Butter.

Balance

salt0.0acid1.3 · 81stfat0.0sweet3.2 · 90thumami0.0heat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.0n/a
acid1.381st
fat0.0n/a
sweet3.290th
umami0.0n/a
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

45 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
house-made pecan butternot scored
boysenberry jamscored as Jam (jelly, preserves)saucesweet 5 acid 2 smoothnot 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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