A sandwich at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +26.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: beef salami; lettuce; tomato; onion; russian dressing.
Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Beef Salami.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.9 | 50th |
| acid | 1.3 | 82nd |
| fat | 1.6 | 28th |
| sweet | 1.3 | 90th |
| umami | 0.9 | 26th |
| heat | 0.5 | 86th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 72nd |
90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| beef salami | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +5 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +10 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| russian dressingscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | +7 |
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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