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Avocado at Bay Area Bagels

Cream cheese, avocado on Bagel. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At Bay Area Bagels, Burlingame.

A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.

BagelAvocadoCream CheeseBagel
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +16.

Uncharted, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
54
Harmony
80
Contrast
30
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
31
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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.

Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich), served cold: cream cheese; avocado.

Balance

salt0.4 · 18thacid0.4 · 42ndfat3.2 · 85thsweet0.0umami0.8 · 23rdheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.418th
acid0.442nd
fat3.285th
sweet0.0n/a
umami0.823rd
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

58 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsoft chewythe frame
cream cheesefatfat 4 creamy silky smooth+9
avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh−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.

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