A sandwich at Orange Bowl, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +13.
A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: tuna salad; iceberg lettuce (low tier); tomato; cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 0.9 | 67th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 2.5 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| tuna salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +5 |
| iceberg lettuce (low tier)scored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +16 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | −7 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.14 short).
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