A sandwich at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +24.
Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: choice of pastrami, corned beef, turkey or roast beef; swiss; coleslaw; russian dressing.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 71st |
| acid | 1.0 | 70th |
| fat | 2.6 | 67th |
| sweet | 0.8 | 84th |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.3 | 74th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
92 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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| choice of pastrami, corned beef, turkey or roast beef | not scored | ||
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +10 |
| coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | +3 |
| russian dressingscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | +8 |
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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