A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +29.
Reads as a club, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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), toasted: fajitas style chicken; mississippi honey bbq sauce; crispy bacon; mayo; lettuce; swiss cheese.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Honey BBQ Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 71st |
| acid | 0.4 | 41st |
| fat | 2.9 | 76th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 39th |
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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| fajitas style chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +6 |
| mississippi honey bbq sauce | not scored | ||
| crispy baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −8 |
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
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
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