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
- Croustade aux pommesDeep Cut85points
- Croustade avignonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- CroustillonsDeep Cut85points
- Croûte au fromageDeep Cut85points
- Croûte aux morillesDeep Cut85points
- CrowdieDeep Cut85points
- CrozifletteDeep Cut85points
- CrunchieDeep Cut85points
- Crunchy Nut cornflakesDeep Cut85points
- Cucumber sauceDeep Cut85points
- Cul de veau à l'angevineDeep Cut85points
- Cullen skinkDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland hamDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland pieDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland rum nickyDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland sauceDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland sausageDeep Cut85points
- Curé nantaisDeep Cut85points
- Curly WurlyDeep Cut85points
- Curry pieDeep Cut85points
- Curry powderDeep Cut85points
- Custard creamDeep Cut85points
- Custard sliceDeep Cut85points
- DacquoiseDeep Cut85points
- Daddies sauceDeep Cut85points
- Dairy Milk Fruit & NutDeep Cut85points
- DairyleaDeep Cut85points
- Dame blancheDeep Cut85points
- DampfnudelDeep Cut85points
- Damson cheeseDeep Cut85points
- DanetteDeep Cut85points
- DarioleDeep Cut85points
- Date and walnut loafDeep Cut85points
- DaubeDeep Cut85points
- Daube avignonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- Daube de sanglierDeep Cut85points
- Daube niçoiseDeep Cut85points
- Dauphin cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Deep-fried pizzaDeep Cut85points
- DéfardeDeep Cut85points
- Délice à la rose (aliases délice à la violette, délice à la rose cheese)Deep Cut85points
- Délice d'ArgentalDeep Cut85points
- Délice d'étéDeep Cut85points
- Délice de BourgogneDeep Cut85points
- Délice de ChartreuseDeep Cut85points
- Délice de PommardDeep Cut85points
- Délice de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Délice de Saint-CyrDeep Cut85points
- Délice des boisDeep Cut85points
- Délice du CalvadosDeep 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.