A sandwich at Glen Ellen Village Market, a corner store in Glen Ellen, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +11.
Reads as a fully realized turkey sandwich, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
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 (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: turkey; bacon; avocado; sprouts; jack cheese; mayo; mustard; lettuce; tomato; pickle; onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 73rd |
| acid | 1.3 | 80th |
| fat | 1.9 | 41st |
| sweet | 0.3 | 34th |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.2 | 71st |
| bitter | 0.2 | 65th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | −6 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −7 |
| sprouts | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −8 |
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −8 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −10 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −7 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −8 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | −1 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −11 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −4 |
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 + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Avocado + Sprouts: california crunch on green fat
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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