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
- Délice du crémierDeep Cut85points
- Demi-glaceDeep Cut85points
- Demi-sel cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Denbigh plumDeep Cut85points
- Dent du chatDeep Cut85points
- Derby cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Derbyshire oatcakeDeep Cut85points
- Deux-ChèvresDeep Cut85points
- Devilled kidneysDeep Cut85points
- Devils on horsebackDeep Cut85points
- Devizes pieDeep Cut85points
- Devon BlueDeep Cut85points
- Devon OkeDeep Cut85points
- Devonshire apple cakeDeep Cut85points
- DiotDeep Cut85points
- Diots au vin blancDeep Cut85points
- Dip DabDeep Cut85points
- Diplomat puddingDeep Cut85points
- DiscosDeep Cut85points
- Discovery appleDeep Cut85points
- DivorcéDeep Cut85points
- Dock puddingDeep Cut85points
- Dolly mixturesDeep Cut85points
- DominetteDeep Cut85points
- Dorset apple cakeDeep Cut85points
- Dorset Blue VinneyDeep Cut85points
- Dorset DrumDeep Cut85points
- Dorset knobDeep Cut85points
- DorstoneDeep Cut85points
- Double creamDeep Cut85points
- Double DeckerDeep Cut85points
- Double GloucesterDeep Cut85points
- Double LolliesDeep Cut85points
- DouceletteDeep Cut85points
- Doux chêneDeep Cut85points
- Doux de MontagneDeep Cut85points
- DovedaleDeep Cut85points
- Dover soleDeep Cut85points
- Doyenné du ComiceDeep Cut85points
- DragéeDeep Cut85points
- DragibusDeep Cut85points
- DrepeeDeep Cut85points
- Dressed crabDeep Cut85points
- DrifterDeep Cut85points
- Driftwood cheeseDeep Cut85points
- DrippingDeep Cut85points
- Dripping cakeDeep Cut85points
- Drop sconeDeep Cut85points
- Drumstick lollyDeep Cut85points
- Duchess potatoesDeep 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.