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# Popeye at Bay Area Bagels
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels-popeye/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:17:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:17:46.000Z
- Description: Egg whites, spinach, mushrooms, swiss cheese on Bagel. Sandwich Score 50, solid. 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.

BagelSwiss CheeseMushroomSpinachBagel

**50**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +18.

Leans toward a veggie panini, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

69

Harmony

77

Contrast

38

Structure

86

Focus

96

Composition

35

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: egg whites; spinach; mushrooms; swiss cheese.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Egg White.

## Balance

salt1.0 · 52ndacid0.0fat1.1 · 16thsweet0.0umami1.6 · 53rdheat0.0bitter0.2 · 67th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.0   | 52nd               |
| acid   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| fat    | 1.1   | 16th               |
| sweet  | 0.0   | n/a                |
| umami  | 1.6   | 53rd               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.2   | 67th               |

**69** 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  |
| egg whites                                 |         |                                 | not scored |
| spinach                                    | bulk    | soft fresh leafy                | **+10**    |
| mushroomsscored as Mushroom                | bulk    | umami 2 soft springy juicy      | **+7**     |
| swiss cheese                               | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | **+17**    |

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

- **Mushroom + Swiss Cheese**: melted alpine over browned mushroom

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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.