A sandwich at Perry's Delicatessen, a deli in Inverness, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized pulled pork sandwich, four of six roles on the board.
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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: house-marinated slow-cooked pork; sartains bbq sauce; house-made coleslaw (house-made).
Worth a look: house-made: Coleslaw.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 58th |
| acid | 1.0 | 70th |
| fat | 1.7 | 34th |
| sweet | 1.7 | 90th |
| umami | 1.6 | 57th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
92 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 |
| house-marinated slow-cooked porkscored as Pork | protein | fat 4 umami 4 juicy chewy tender | +33 |
| sartains bbq saucescored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +24 |
| house-made coleslaw (house-made)scored as Coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | +25 |
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
- Pork + BBQ Sauce: pit law: sweet smoke sauce on rich pork
- Pork + Coleslaw: pulled pork wants slaw's cold vinegar snap
- BBQ Sauce + Coleslaw: sweet smoke sauce wants slaw's vinegar snap
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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