A sandwich at Susie Q's Pizza, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +21.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More acid 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), served cold: crispy chicken; cheese; lettuce; tomato; onions; pickles; choice of sauce (buffalo, honey garlic, bbq, mango habanero, korean bbq or mayo).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.9 | 84th |
| acid | 1.6 | 90th |
| fat | 1.4 | 21st |
| sweet | 0.5 | 63rd |
| umami | 1.6 | 57th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 54th |
97 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 |
| crispy chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +7 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | +2 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +6 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +6 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −3 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +6 |
| choice of sauce (buffalo, honey garlic, bbq, mango habanero, korean bbq or mayo) | not scored |
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 + Pickle (cucumber): fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
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