A sandwich at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More bitter 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.
rye, served cold: line-caught albacore tuna salad; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 57th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 1.4 | 23rd |
| sweet | 0.3 | 37th |
| umami | 2.3 | 86th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.6 | 90th |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ryescored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| line-caught albacore tuna saladscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +37 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +4 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
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
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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