A sandwich at Pop's Deli & Grill, a deli in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +25.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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: roast beef; melted jack cheese; mild green chilis; lettuce; sliced tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 0.3 | 36th |
| fat | 1.9 | 41st |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
84 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 |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | −5 |
| melted jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −11 |
| mild green chilis | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +6 |
| sliced tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
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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