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Cracked Pepper Turkey at Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont

Black pepper turkey, house sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mustard, cheese on sourdough roll. Sandwich Score 60, solid. At Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont, Fremont.

A sandwich at Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont, a sandwich shop in Fremont, California.

SourdoughCheese (generic)MustardOnionTomatoLettuceSourdough
60
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +28.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
99
Harmony
69
Contrast
100
Structure
98
Focus
100
Composition
41
Quality
100
Envelope
98

More acid than 90% of 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.

sourdough roll, served cold: black pepper turkey; house sauce (high tier); lettuce; tomatoes; onions; mustard; cheese.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont's typical score.

Balance

salt1.5 · 74thacid1.6 · 90thfat1.2 · 18thsweet0.4 · 46thumami1.5 · 52ndheat0.6 · 90thbitter0.5 · 89th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.574th
acid1.690th
fat1.218th
sweet0.446th
umami1.552nd
heat0.690th
bitter0.589th

99 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
sourdough rollscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
black pepper turkeynot scored
house sauce (high tier)not scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+1
tomatoesscored as Tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+2
onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+1
mustardsauceacid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth−1
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+11

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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