A sandwich at Dolores Deluxe, a corner store in San Francisco, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
Acme green onion slab, served cold: rotisserie chicken breast; homemade toum (house-made, high tier); Lebanese pickles; crispy potatoes; parsley; sumac (high tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 73rd |
| acid | 1.5 | 88th |
| fat | 1.3 | 19th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 28th |
| umami | 0.8 | 23rd |
| heat | 0.2 | 66th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 59th |
89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acme green onion slab (high tier)scored as Focaccia | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| rotisserie chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +7 |
| homemade toum (house-made, high tier)scored as Garlic Sauce | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | +8 |
| Lebanese picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +5 |
| crispy potatoesscored as Potato | bulk | soft | −3 |
| parsley | aromatic | fresh herbal soft | +2 |
| sumac (high tier) | aromatic | acid 3 powdery | +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
- Chicken + Pickle (cucumber): fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
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