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Popeye at Diablo Foods

Arostica chicken, swiss cheese, sauteed spinach, light mayo on toasted sliced sourdough. Sandwich Score 53, solid. At Diablo Foods, Lafayette.

A sandwich at Diablo Foods, a corner store in Lafayette, California.

SourdoughMayonnaiseSpinachSwiss CheeseSourdough
53
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +28.

Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
87
Harmony
51
Contrast
88
Structure
78
Focus
96
Composition
37
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.

toasted sliced sourdough, toasted: arostica chicken; swiss cheese; sauteed spinach; light mayo.

Balance

salt1.0 · 52ndacid0.8 · 61stfat2.5 · 64thsweet0.0umami1.3 · 41stheat0.0bitter0.2 · 64th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.052nd
acid0.861st
fat2.564th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.341st
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.264th

87 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
toasted sliced sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
arostica chickennot scored
swiss cheeseproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty+6
sauteed spinachscored as Spinachbulksoft fresh leafy+5
light mayoscored as Mayonnaisesaucefat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy+5

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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