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
- Carrot cakeDeep Cut85points
- Casgiu merzuDeep Cut85points
- Casse-museauDeep Cut85points
- CassissineDeep Cut85points
- CastagnicciaDeep Cut85points
- CathareDeep Cut85points
- CathelainDeep Cut85points
- Catigot d'anguillesDeep Cut85points
- CaudièreDeep Cut85points
- Cauliflower cheeseDeep Cut85points
- CaussedouDeep Cut85points
- Cavalier du LarzacDeep Cut85points
- Caviar d'AquitaineDeep Cut85points
- Caviar d'aubergineDeep Cut85points
- CawlDeep Cut85points
- CayolarDeep Cut85points
- Cazelle de Saint AffriqueDeep Cut85points
- CelebrationsDeep Cut85points
- Céleri rémouladeDeep Cut85points
- CelliniDeep Cut85points
- Celtic PromiseDeep Cut85points
- Cendré de ChampagneDeep Cut85points
- Cendré de ManonDeep Cut85points
- Cendré de NiortDeep Cut85points
- Cendré de VergyDeep Cut85points
- Cendré du VernetDeep Cut85points
- Cèpes à la bordelaiseDeep Cut85points
- CérillyDeep Cut85points
- Cerises à l'eau-de-vieDeep Cut85points
- Cerney AshDeep Cut85points
- CervelasDeep Cut85points
- Cervelas aiglonDeep Cut85points
- Cervelle au beurre noirDeep Cut85points
- Cervelle de canutDeep Cut85points
- Chabichou du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- ChabisDeep Cut85points
- ChabrolDeep Cut85points
- ChambaranDeep Cut85points
- Chambérat fermierDeep Cut85points
- Chamois d'orDeep Cut85points
- ChampDeep Cut85points
- Champignon de ParisDeep Cut85points
- Champignons à la grecqueDeep Cut85points
- ChandamourDeep Cut85points
- Chantilly creamDeep Cut85points
- ChaourceDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Chardon de LorraineDeep Cut85points
- CharlotteDeep Cut85points
- Charlotte potatoDeep 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.