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Artichoke Turkey at Bitter + Sweet

Turkey, artichoke dip, tomatoes on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 50, solid. At Bitter + Sweet, Cupertino.

A sandwich at Bitter + Sweet, a cafe in Cupertino, California.

White BreadTomatoTurkeyWhite Bread
50
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +22.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
77
Harmony
65
Contrast
78
Structure
82
Focus
79
Composition
28
Quality
100
Envelope
99

Less fat than almost everything in 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.

white bread (inferred from the kind of place), pressed: turkey; artichoke dip; tomatoes.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Artichoke Dip.

Balance

salt0.7 · 41stacid0.5 · 48thfat0.6 · 7thsweet0.3 · 43rdumami1.6 · 56thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.741st
acid0.548th
fat0.67th
sweet0.343rd
umami1.656th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

77 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 (inferred from the kind of place)breadsoftthe frame
turkeyproteinumami 2 soft juicy tender+11
artichoke dipnot scored
tomatoesscored as Tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+10

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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