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Chicken Salad at The Farmhand

Chicken salad, scallions, celery, parsley, creamy dijon, lettuce on costeaux bakery multigrain. Sandwich Score 49, rough. At The Farmhand, Guerneville.

A sandwich at The Farmhand, a deli in Guerneville, California.

Whole Wheat BreadLettuceParsleyCeleryScallion (green oni…Chicken SaladWhole Wheat Bread
49
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +10.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
65
Harmony
50
Contrast
73
Structure
86
Focus
100
Composition
34
Quality
100
Envelope
98

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.

costeaux bakery multigrain, served cold: chicken salad; scallions; celery; parsley; creamy dijon; lettuce.

Balance

salt0.7 · 38thacid0.3 · 38thfat1.0 · 14thsweet0.1 · 19thumami1.0 · 30thheat0.1 · 61stbitter0.5 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.738th
acid0.338th
fat1.014th
sweet0.119th
umami1.030th
heat0.161st
bitter0.590th

65 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
costeaux bakery multigrainscored as Whole Wheat Breadbreadsoftthe frame
chicken saladproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft tender+17
scallionsscored as Scallion (green onion, chives)aromaticfresh herbal crisp0
celerytexturecrunchy juicy fresh0
parsleyaromaticfresh herbal soft0
creamy dijonnot scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh0

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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