A sandwich at La Bodeguita Panino, a sandwich shop in Guerneville, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized chicken pesto sandwich, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
−4 pressed the fresh layers flat
More bitter 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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), pressed: grilled chicken breast; homemade pesto sauce (house-made); tomatoes; arugula; provolone cheese.
Worth a look: house-made: Pesto.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 60th |
| acid | 0.2 | 31st |
| fat | 2.0 | 44th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 22nd |
| umami | 2.0 | 75th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
79 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 |
| grilled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +19 |
| homemade pesto sauce (house-made)scored as Pesto | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy | +19 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
| arugula | bulk | bitter 2 fresh leafy tender | −5 |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +17 |
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 + Pesto: pesto gives mild chicken a green engine
How to raise it
- Clear the board: pressed the fresh layers flat (-4).
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.01 short).
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