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# Chickencado at Pop's Deli & Grill
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/hayward-pop-s-deli-and-grill-chickencado/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:23:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:23:58.000Z
- Description: Chicken, avocado, sweet red onion, sprouts, tomato on french roll. Sandwich Score 64, very good. At Pop's Deli & Grill, Hayward.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Pop's Deli & Grill](https://onesandwich.com/hayward-pop-s-deli-and-grill/), a deli in Hayward, California.

Hoagie RollTomatoSproutsOnionAvocadoChickenHoagie Roll

**64**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +24.

Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

71

Harmony

84

Contrast

96

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

51

Quality

100

Envelope

100

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.

**french roll**, toasted: chicken; avocado; sweet red onion; sprouts; tomato.

## Balance

salt0.4 · 17thacid0.4 · 39thfat1.8 · 35thsweet0.4 · 45thumami1.5 · 52ndheat0.1 · 53rdbitter0.2 · 60th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 0.4   | 17th               |
| acid   | 0.4   | 39th               |
| fat    | 1.8   | 35th               |
| sweet  | 0.4   | 45th               |
| umami  | 1.5   | 52nd               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 53rd               |
| bitter | 0.2   | 60th               |

**71** 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    |
| -------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| french rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread   | soft crusty                             | the frame |
| chicken                          | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender        | **+9**    |
| avocado                          | fat     | fat 4 creamy soft fresh                 | **+8**    |
| sweet red onionscored as Onion   | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **−1**    |
| sprouts                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+3**    |
| tomato                           | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+9**    |

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 + Avocado**: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- **Avocado + Sprouts**: california crunch on green fat

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Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.