Recorded answers
3,514 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from the ordinary to the exceptional. Begin by listing the obvious dishes anyone would shout first, then deliberately discard them, because the recorded list is built almost entirely from entries that a normal shopper would never think of. Switch to the registers that generate thousands of names: protected regional products, farmhouse cheeses, cured meats, biscuits, fruit varieties, preserves, sweets and drinks. For each one, ask whether it has a documented local identity and a name longer than one word. If a candidate feels like something you would find in a village shop or on a monastery table rather than a supermarket, write it down. Quantity matters here, so keep producing variations of the same theme instead of hunting for one perfect answer, and prefer the spelling used by the producer.
Get a hint
Start from the widest map of what the two cuisines actually produce, from everyday staples and farmhouse dairy to festival baking and preserved fruit, then notice how many carry a place in their name.
A little more
Narrow the field to certified regional products, artisan dairy and cured meats, small-batch preserves and old bakery specialities whose fame never travelled beyond their own district.
One step further
Finally think of single-variety produce and monastic or farmhouse cheeses with an appellation, plus the sort of sweet that exists in one village only; the more precise the name, the better it fares.
Reveal answers 3,514
- Bedfordshire clangerOne in a Krillion100points
- 5 StarDeep Cut85points
- 99 FlakeDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye de BellocDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye de CîteauxDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-VireDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye de TamiéDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye de TimadeucDeep Cut85points
- Abbaye la Joie Notre-DameDeep Cut85points
- Abbey CrunchDeep Cut85points
- Aberdeen Angus beefDeep Cut85points
- Aberdeen butteryDeep Cut85points
- Aberffraw cakeDeep Cut85points
- Abernethy biscuitDeep Cut85points
- AbondanceDeep Cut85points
- Aboukir cakeDeep Cut85points
- Abricot des BaronniesDeep Cut85points
- Abricot rouge du RoussillonDeep Cut85points
- Accras de morueDeep Cut85points
- AchardsDeep Cut85points
- Acorn cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Adams PearmainDeep Cut85points
- AeroDeep Cut85points
- AffidéliceDeep Cut85points
- After EightDeep Cut85points
- Afternoon teaDeep Cut85points
- Agneau de PauillacDeep Cut85points
- Agneau de pré-saléDeep Cut85points
- Agneau de SisteronDeep Cut85points
- Agneau du QuercyDeep Cut85points
- AgoulouDeep Cut85points
- AgriadeDeep Cut85points
- Aigo boulidoDeep Cut85points
- Aiguille d'OrcièresDeep Cut85points
- Ail blanc de LomagneDeep Cut85points
- Ail de la DrômeDeep Cut85points
- Ail fumé d'ArleuxDeep Cut85points
- Ail rose de LautrecDeep Cut85points
- Ail violet de CadoursDeep Cut85points
- Aillet soupDeep Cut85points
- Ailsa Craig tomatoDeep Cut85points
- Aïoli garniDeep Cut85points
- AisyDeep Cut85points
- Aisy cendréDeep Cut85points
- Albert sauceDeep Cut85points
- Albufera sauceDeep Cut85points
- Alfriston appleDeep Cut85points
- AlicotDeep Cut85points
- Allemande sauceDeep Cut85points
- AllerdaleDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The shape of the reveal says almost everything. Out of 3,495 recorded answers, 3,430 reached sixty points or better, and 2,728 of those landed on the same eighty-five-point shelf. That enormous middle band is where the game lives: any candidate specific enough to be verifiable and obscure enough to feel like local knowledge scored well, whether it was Bedfordshire clanger (100), Abbaye de Belloc (85) or Aberdeen buttery (85). The single hundred-point outlier shows the ceiling is reserved for the pick that almost nobody else found. At the other end, 701 answers stopped at sixty points, and those are the safe, obvious shouts that thousands of players produce at once. Rarity, not fame, drives the score here. A named farmhouse cheese, a village bake or a protected fruit variety outranks a dish everyone learned at school, because the scoring rewards the answer the crowd missed. Aim for precision and specificity, and accept that a long, half-forgotten name usually beats the famous one.