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Tuna Melt at Drewish Deli - Healdsburg Bagel

House-made tuna salad, arugula, sliced tomato, swiss cheese, dijon on choice of bread. Sandwich Score 64, very good. At Drewish Deli - Healdsburg Bagel, Healdsburg.

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

Swiss CheeseTomatoArugulaTuna SaladWhite Bread
64
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +15.

A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; four of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
91
Harmony
64
Contrast
95
Structure
96
Focus
100
Composition
54
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.

white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: house-made tuna salad (house-made); arugula; sliced tomato; swiss cheese; dijon.

Worth a look: house-made: Tuna Salad.

Balance

salt1.3 · 63rdacid0.6 · 51stfat1.8 · 35thsweet0.2 · 25thumami2.3 · 86thheat0.0bitter0.4 · 81st
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.363rd
acid0.651st
fat1.835th
sweet0.225th
umami2.386th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.481st

91 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
white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one)breadsoftthe frame
house-made tuna salad (house-made)scored as Tuna Saladproteinumami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft+9
arugulabulkbitter 2 fresh leafy tender−15
sliced tomatoscored as Tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+13
swiss cheeseproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty+5
dijonnot 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.

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