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Royal Lunch at Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe

Roast beef, salmon, liver pâté on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 40, rough. At Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe, Burlingame.

A sandwich at Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Burlingame, California.

Pâté (pork liver)SalmonBeefWhite Bread
40
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +25.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
59
Harmony
43
Contrast
25
Structure
88
Focus
81
Composition
21
Quality
100
Envelope
98

More umami 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.

white bread (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: roast beef; salmon; liver pâté.

Balance

salt1.4 · 70thacid0.0fat3.1 · 83rdsweet0.0umami2.9 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.3 · 75th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.470th
acid0.0n/a
fat3.183rd
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.990th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.375th

67 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
white bread (inferred from the kind of place)breadsoftthe frame
roast beefscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender−1
salmonproteinfat 3 umami 3 soft flaky tender−1
liver pâtéscored as Pâté (pork liver)proteinfat 5 umami 4 salt 3 creamy silky0

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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