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Linguisa at New Jersey's Restaurant

Linguisa on french roll. Sandwich Score 40, rough. At New Jersey's Restaurant, Campbell.

A hot dog at New Jersey's Restaurant, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.

Hoagie RollHot DogHoagie Roll
40
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +17.

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
67
Harmony
26
Contrast
48
Structure
62
Focus
84
Composition
23
Quality
100
Envelope
95

More salt 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.

french roll, toasted: linguisa; hot dog.

In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of New Jersey's Restaurant's typical score.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Linguiça.

Balance

salt2.7 · 90thacid0.0fat2.7 · 70thsweet0.7 · 77thumami2.0 · 74thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.790th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.770th
sweet0.777th
umami2.074th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

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
french rollscored as Hoagie Rollbreadsoft crustythe frame
linguisanot scored
hot dogproteinsalt 4 fat 4 umami 3 springy juicy tendernot scored

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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