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Tuna Melt at Digger's Diner

Grilled tuna salad, american cheese on choice of bread. Sandwich Score 42, rough. At Digger's Diner, Concord.

A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.

White BreadAmerican CheeseTuna SaladWhite Bread
42
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +35.

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
76
Harmony
30
Contrast
55
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
25
Quality
75
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.

white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: grilled tuna salad; american cheese (low tier).

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.8 · 74thsweet0.4 · 50thumami2.4 · 87thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.442nd
fat2.874th
sweet0.450th
umami2.487th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

76 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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one)breadsoftthe frame
grilled tuna saladscored as Tuna Saladproteinumami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft+1
american cheese (low tier)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty+1

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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