A sandwich at Louies Lasagna, a restaurant in Gilroy, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a fully realized meatball sub, four of six roles on the board.
More umami 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.
garlic roll, toasted: 3 big meatballs; mozzarella; parmesan; red sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.6 | 54th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 51st |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| garlic rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| 3 big meatballsscored as Meatball | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 soft juicy tender | +7 |
| mozzarella | protein | fat 3 soft springy melty | +2 |
| parmesan | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 powdery melty | 0 |
| red saucescored as Marinara | sauce | acid 3 umami 3 salt 2 sweet 2 soft saucy wet | +26 |
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
- Meatball + Mozzarella: mozzarella melted over the meatball sub
- Meatball + Marinara: marinara is the meatball's native sauce
- Mozzarella + Parmesan: milky stretch under salty parmesan
- Parmesan + Marinara: parmesan salts the marinara's sweetness
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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