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
- Chevrotin de Peisey-NancroixDeep Cut85points
- Chevrotin des AravisDeep Cut85points
- Chevrotin du Mont-CenisDeep Cut85points
- Chevrotin du VernetDeep Cut85points
- ChevruDeep Cut85points
- ChewetteDeep Cut85points
- ChewitsDeep Cut85points
- Chiboust creamDeep Cut85points
- Chichi frégiDeep Cut85points
- ChichoumeilleDeep Cut85points
- Chicken à la KingDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and grape sandwichDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and ham pieDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and leek pieDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and mushroom pieDeep Cut85points
- Chicken au poivreDeep Cut85points
- Chicken bakeDeep Cut85points
- Chicken ballsDeep Cut85points
- Chicken in a basketDeep Cut85points
- Chicken KievDeep Cut85points
- Chicken MarengoDeep Cut85points
- Chicken MarylandDeep Cut85points
- Chicken paillardDeep Cut85points
- Chicons au gratinDeep Cut85points
- Chilli vinegarDeep Cut85points
- China chiloDeep Cut85points
- ChinoisDeep Cut85points
- Chip spiceDeep Cut85points
- Chipirons à la luzienneDeep Cut85points
- ChipolataDeep Cut85points
- Chippy sauceDeep Cut85points
- Chips, cheese and gravyDeep Cut85points
- ChipsticksDeep Cut85points
- Chique de BavayDeep Cut85points
- ChitterlingsDeep Cut85points
- Choc iceDeep Cut85points
- Chocolat de BayonneDeep Cut85points
- Chocolat liégeoisDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate biscuit cakeDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate brazilsDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate concreteDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate digestiveDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate limesDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate miceDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate OliverDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate spongeDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate truffleDeep Cut85points
- Chomp barDeep Cut85points
- Chorley cakeDeep Cut85points
- Chou farciDeep 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.