A sandwich at Perry's Delicatessen, a deli in Inverness, California.
out of 100 · legendary
Legendary. Every gate clear, the board clean.
A club with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
More salt 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.
toasted wheat bread, toasted: bacon; lettuce; tomato; pickles; house-made chicken salad (house-made).
Worth a look: house-made: Chicken Salad.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.7 | 33rd |
| sweet | 0.4 | 49th |
| umami | 1.7 | 60th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.2 | 63rd |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted wheat breadscored as Whole Wheat Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +23 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +16 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +5 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +4 |
| house-made chicken salad (house-made)scored as Chicken Salad | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft tender | +8 |
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
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Chicken Salad: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Pickle (cucumber) + Chicken Salad: fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
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