A sandwich at Pop's Deli & Grill, a deli in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +34.
Reads as a fully realized chicken bacon melt, four of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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), toasted: charbroiled chicken breast; bacon; ranch (low tier); cheddar.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.4 | 44th |
| fat | 3.1 | 82nd |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
77 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 |
| charbroiled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +5 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −2 |
| ranch (low tier)scored as Ranch Dressing | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | 0 |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | −3 |
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 + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Ranch Dressing: chicken bacon ranch, the american fold
- Bacon + Ranch Dressing: bacon ranch, the american fold
- Bacon + Cheddar Cheese: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Ranch Dressing + Cheddar Cheese: ranch and cheddar, the loaded-potato pair
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