A sandwich at Cozzy Market & Deli, a deli in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +12.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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 (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: fresh-sliced turkey; goat cheese; avocado; pesto; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 3.2 | 85th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 1.5 | 48th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.2 | 60th |
94 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 (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| fresh-sliced turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +5 |
| goat cheesescored as Goat Cheese (chèvre) | protein | fat 4 acid 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | +7 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +8 |
| pesto | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy | −1 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | 0 |
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
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
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