A sandwich at Diablo Foods, a corner store in Lafayette, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +19.
A turkey sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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.
whole wheat roll, served cold: diablo's own roast turkey; cream cheese; cranberry; avocado; sprouts; walnut bits; lettuce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.4 | 17th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 1.9 | 41st |
| sweet | 0.7 | 81st |
| umami | 0.8 | 23rd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| whole wheat rollscored as Whole Wheat Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| diablo's own roast turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +4 |
| cream cheese | fat | fat 4 creamy silky smooth | −5 |
| cranberryscored as Cranberry Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 acid 3 saucy soft | +13 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +6 |
| sprouts | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| walnut bitsscored as Walnuts | texture | fat 4 bitter 2 crunchy | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
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
- Turkey + Cranberry Sauce: thanksgiving logic: tart fruit on lean bird
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Avocado + Sprouts: california crunch on green fat
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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