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Hot Turkey at Holder's Country Inn Cupertino

Hot turkey, mashed potatoes, fresh veggies on open-faced sourdough. Sandwich Score 41, rough. At Holder's Country Inn Cupertino, Cupertino.

A sandwich at Holder's Country Inn Cupertino, a restaurant in Cupertino, California.

TurkeySourdough
41
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +19.

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

Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
67
Harmony
38
Contrast
63
Structure
49
Focus
67
Composition
22
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.

open-faced sourdough, toasted: hot turkey; mashed potatoes; fresh veggies.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Holder's Country Inn Cupertino's typical score.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Mashed Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables.

Balance

salt0.7 · 36thacid0.3 · 38thfat0.7 · 8thsweet0.0umami1.3 · 43rdheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.736th
acid0.338th
fat0.78th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.343rd
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

67 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
open-faced sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
hot turkeyscored as Turkeyproteinumami 2 soft juicy tendernot scored
mashed potatoesnot scored
fresh veggiesnot scored

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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