Recorded answers
3,528 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 3,528
- Calf's liver and baconDeep Cut85points
- CalissonDeep Cut85points
- CallebasseDeep Cut85points
- Calville blanc d'hiverDeep Cut85points
- Cambrian Mountains lambDeep Cut85points
- Cambridge sauceDeep Cut85points
- Camembert au calvadosDeep Cut85points
- Camembert rôtiDeep Cut85points
- CamisardDeep Cut85points
- Campanile (Corsican cake)Deep Cut85points
- Canard au cidreDeep Cut85points
- Canard aux cerisesDeep Cut85points
- Canard de ChallansDeep Cut85points
- CancoillotteDeep Cut85points
- CanestruDeep Cut85points
- CanistrelliDeep Cut85points
- Cannelloni au brocciuDeep Cut85points
- CantadouDeep Cut85points
- CantalDeep Cut85points
- CanutDeep Cut85points
- Caper sauceDeep Cut85points
- Capri lézéenDeep Cut85points
- CapricciuDeep Cut85points
- Caprice des DieuxDeep Cut85points
- Car-en-sacDeep Cut85points
- CaramacDeep Cut85points
- CarambarDeep Cut85points
- Caramel au beurre saléDeep Cut85points
- Caramel digestiveDeep Cut85points
- Caramels d'IsignyDeep Cut85points
- Caraway seed cakeDeep Cut85points
- Carbonnade flamandeDeep Cut85points
- CargoladeDeep Cut85points
- CariDeep Cut85points
- Carmarthen hamDeep Cut85points
- Carotte de CréancesDeep Cut85points
- Carottes râpéesDeep Cut85points
- Carottes VichyDeep Cut85points
- Carpe farcieDeep Cut85points
- Carpe friteDeep Cut85points
- Carpetbag steakDeep Cut85points
- Carrageen puddingDeep Cut85points
- Carré d'AurillacDeep Cut85points
- Carré de BonnevilleDeep Cut85points
- Carré de BrayDeep Cut85points
- Carré de l'EstDeep Cut85points
- Carré de SalersDeep Cut85points
- Carré du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- Carré du VinageDeep Cut85points
- Carré FraisDeep 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.