A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized turkey sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
More acid 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.
croissant, served cold: turkey; swiss cheese; mayo; mustard; lettuce; tomatoes; pickles; onions.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.6 | 29th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 65th |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.3 | 77th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 70th |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| croissant | bread | fat 3 sweet 2 flaky crispy | the frame |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +12 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +1 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +1 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −5 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −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.
Pairings
- Croissant + Turkey: turkey on a buttery croissant, the cafe standard
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a focused, restrained build (0.05 short).
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