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The Purist at Drewish Deli - Healdsburg Bagel

House made corned beef or pastrami (choice), cole slaw, deli mustard on house made rye. Sandwich Score 48, rough. At Drewish Deli - Healdsburg Bagel, Healdsburg.

A sandwich at Drewish Deli - Healdsburg Bagel, a deli in Healdsburg, California.

Rye BreadMustardColeslawRye Bread
48
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +41.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
76
Harmony
63
Contrast
86
Structure
56
Focus
75
Composition
26
Quality
100
Envelope
74

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.

house made rye, served cold: house made corned beef or pastrami (choice); cole slaw; deli mustard.

Worth a look: house-made: NEW:Choice of Meat.

Balance

salt1.2 · 61stacid2.0 · 90thfat0.6 · 7thsweet0.3 · 39thumami0.5 · 10thheat0.9 · 90thbitter0.9 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.261st
acid2.090th
fat0.67th
sweet0.339th
umami0.510th
heat0.990th
bitter0.990th

76 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
house made ryescored as Rye Breadbreadbitter 2 soft crustythe frame
house made corned beef or pastrami (choice)not scored
cole slawscored as Coleslawbulkacid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed+30
deli mustardscored as Mustardsauceacid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth+7

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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