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Super Turkey at Blazin Bagelz

Double turkey, cranberry sauce, tomato, sprouts on bagel of your choice. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Blazin Bagelz, Gilroy.

A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.

White BreadSproutsTomatoCranberry SauceTurkeyWhite Bread
54
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +25.

Reads as a turkey sandwich, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
63
Harmony
90
Contrast
68
Structure
86
Focus
79
Composition
52
Quality
100
Envelope
91

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: double turkey; cranberry sauce; tomato; sprouts.

Balance

salt0.4 · 19thacid1.2 · 78thfat0.3 · 4thsweet1.4 · 90thumami1.0 · 28thheat0.0bitter0.4 · 85th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.419th
acid1.278th
fat0.34th
sweet1.490th
umami1.028th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.485th

63 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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one)breadsoftthe frame
double turkeyscored as Turkeyproteinumami 2 soft juicy tender+15
cranberry saucesaucesweet 4 acid 3 saucy soft+4
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+1
sproutstexturecrunchy juicy fresh+6

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

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