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# Ham or Turkey at Bay Area Bagels
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels-ham-or-turkey/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:17:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:17:38.000Z
- Description: Ham, turkey, cheese, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, mustard on Bagel. Sandwich Score 78, excellent. At Bay Area Bagels, Burlingame.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Bay Area Bagels](https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels/), a bakery in Burlingame, California.

BagelMustardMayonnaiseOnionTomatoLettuceCucumberCheese (generic)TurkeyHamBagel

**78**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

A turkey sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

98

Harmony

95

Contrast

100

Structure

95

Focus

92

Composition

77

Quality

100

Envelope

100

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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: ham; turkey; cheese; cucumber; lettuce; tomato; onion; mayo; mustard.

## Balance

salt1.6 · 76thacid1.0 · 69thfat1.8 · 37thsweet0.3 · 42ndumami1.8 · 63rdheat0.3 · 75thbitter0.2 · 67th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.6   | 76th               |
| acid   | 1.0   | 69th               |
| fat    | 1.8   | 37th               |
| sweet  | 0.3   | 42nd               |
| umami  | 1.8   | 63rd               |
| heat   | 0.3   | 75th               |
| bitter | 0.2   | 67th               |

**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    |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread   | soft chewy                              | the frame |
| ham                                        | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender  | **+4**    |
| turkey                                     | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender               | **−6**    |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic)           | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey  | **−4**    |
| cucumber                                   | bulk    | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+2**    |
| lettuce                                    | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+13**   |
| tomato                                     | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+17**   |
| onion                                      | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **−6**    |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise                   | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **+10**   |
| mustard                                    | sauce   | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth       | **+4**    |

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

- **Ham + Mustard**: deli constant: hot mustard on cured pork
- **Turkey + Tomato**: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- **Turkey + Mayonnaise**: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- **Tomato + Mayonnaise**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.03 short).

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Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.