A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +13.
A turkey sandwich with layers outside the form; six 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: turkey; pesto; garlic; peperoncini; tomatoes; avocado; provolone.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 59th |
| acid | 0.8 | 62nd |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 19th |
| umami | 1.5 | 50th |
| heat | 0.2 | 69th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
96 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 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +4 |
| pesto | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy | +3 |
| garlic | aromatic | soft | −3 |
| peperonciniscored as Pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | 0 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +3 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +3 |
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 + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
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