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Hot Link at Perry's Delicatessen

Spicy sausage, caramelized onions, creole mustard on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 40, rough. At Perry's Delicatessen, Inverness.

A hot dog at Perry's Delicatessen, a deli in Inverness, California.

Hot Dog BunCaramelized OnionHot Dog Bun
40
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +25.

Uncharted, no roles on the board yet.

Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
95
Harmony
26
Contrast
60
Structure
39
Focus
63
Composition
22
Quality
100
Envelope
83

More sweet 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.

hot dog bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: spicy sausage; caramelized onions; creole mustard.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Perry's Delicatessen's typical score.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Creole Mustard.

Balance

salt1.0 · 53rdacid0.5 · 50thfat1.5 · 27thsweet3.1 · 90thumami1.6 · 57thheat0.0bitter0.5 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.053rd
acid0.550th
fat1.527th
sweet3.190th
umami1.657th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.590th

95 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
hot dog bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
spicy sausagenot scored
caramelized onionsscored as Caramelized Onionbulksweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silkynot scored
creole mustardnot 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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