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 turkey sandwich, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More heat 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: turkey; mayo; swiss; lettuce; avocado; horseradish.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.9 | 48th |
| acid | 0.6 | 55th |
| fat | 2.4 | 59th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 1.2 | 38th |
| heat | 0.6 | 90th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 66th |
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 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +19 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +8 |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +4 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +9 |
| horseradish | sauce | heat 4 acid 2 creamy saucy | +2 |
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
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.02 short).
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