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
- Cream of sorrel soupDeep Cut85points
- Cream teaDeep Cut85points
- Crème anglaiseDeep Cut85points
- Crème au beurreDeep Cut85points
- Crème au chocolatDeep Cut85points
- Crème catalaneDeep Cut85points
- Crème d'AlbertDeep Cut85points
- Crème d'amandeDeep Cut85points
- Crème d'IsignyDeep Cut85points
- Crème de BresseDeep Cut85points
- Crème de chou-fleur aux moulesDeep Cut85points
- Crème de marronsDeep Cut85points
- Crème diplomateDeep Cut85points
- Crème doubleDeep Cut85points
- Crème Du BarryDeep Cut85points
- Creme EggDeep Cut85points
- Creme Egg TwistedDeep Cut85points
- Crème fraîche fluide d'AlsaceDeep Cut85points
- Crème mousselineDeep Cut85points
- Crème NinonDeep Cut85points
- Crème pâtissièreDeep Cut85points
- Crémet d'AnjouDeep Cut85points
- Crémet du Cap Blanc NezDeep Cut85points
- Crémeux du PuyDeep Cut85points
- CrempogDeep Cut85points
- Crêpe dentelleDeep Cut85points
- CrépinetteDeep Cut85points
- CrespéouDeep Cut85points
- Crevettes grisesDeep Cut85points
- CriqueDeep Cut85points
- Crisp sandwichDeep Cut85points
- Crispy chilli beefDeep Cut85points
- Croglin cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Croissant au jambonDeep Cut85points
- Cromer crabDeep Cut85points
- CrookieDeep Cut85points
- CroquantDeep Cut85points
- Croquant de CordesDeep Cut85points
- Croquet de DonzyDeep Cut85points
- Croquette de VinsobresDeep Cut85points
- Croquettes aux crevettesDeep Cut85points
- Croquettes de camembertDeep Cut85points
- Croquignoles de ReimsDeep Cut85points
- Crottin avesnoisDeep Cut85points
- Crottin D'AmbertDeep Cut85points
- Crottin de BerryDeep Cut85points
- Crottin de ChavignolDeep Cut85points
- Crottin de chevalDeep Cut85points
- CroupetDeep Cut85points
- CroustadeDeep 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.