A sandwich at Roadees Cafe, a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +9.
Uncharted, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More acid 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: cucumber; tomato; lettuce; red onions; pickles; pepperoncinis; hummus; avocado; choice of cheese.
Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Roadees Cafe's typical score.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 72nd |
| acid | 1.6 | 90th |
| fat | 1.6 | 27th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 41st |
| umami | 0.9 | 26th |
| heat | 0.2 | 66th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 44th |
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 (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| cucumber | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +4 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +4 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +1 |
| pepperoncinisscored as Pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | −5 |
| hummus | sauce | fat 3 creamy | +5 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −1 |
| choice of cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | +1 |
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
- Cucumber + Hummus: cool crunch over nutty hummus
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