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
- Duchesse d'AngoulêmeDeep Cut85points
- Duchesse de LorraineDeep Cut85points
- DuddleswellDeep Cut85points
- Dufflin appleDeep Cut85points
- Duke of Devonshire appleDeep Cut85points
- DulseDeep Cut85points
- Dumelow's Seedling appleDeep Cut85points
- Dundee cakeDeep Cut85points
- Dundee marmaladeDeep Cut85points
- Dunlop cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Dunsyre BlueDeep Cut85points
- DuxellesDeep Cut85points
- Easter biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Ecclefechan tartDeep Cut85points
- Échalote d'AnjouDeep Cut85points
- ÉchaudéDeep Cut85points
- Échiré butterDeep Cut85points
- ÉcladeDeep Cut85points
- Écorce de sapinDeep Cut85points
- Écume de WimereuxDeep Cut85points
- Édel de CléronDeep Cut85points
- Edinburgh rockDeep Cut85points
- Egg and chipsDeep Cut85points
- Egg and cress sandwichDeep Cut85points
- Egg mayonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- Egg sauceDeep Cut85points
- Egremont Russet appleDeep Cut85points
- Ellis Bitter appleDeep Cut85points
- Ellison's Orange appleDeep Cut85points
- ElversDeep Cut85points
- EmmentalDeep Cut85points
- Emmental de SavoieDeep Cut85points
- Emmental français est-centralDeep Cut85points
- Empire biscuitDeep Cut85points
- EnchaudDeep Cut85points
- Encornets farcisDeep Cut85points
- Endives braiséesDeep Cut85points
- English mustardDeep Cut85points
- EntrammesDeep Cut85points
- Entrecôte bordelaiseDeep Cut85points
- EpenouseDeep Cut85points
- Épi baguetteDeep Cut85points
- ÉpoissesDeep Cut85points
- EsbareichDeep Cut85points
- Escalope à la crèmeDeep Cut85points
- Escalope normandeDeep Cut85points
- EscaoudounDeep Cut85points
- Escargots à l'alsacienneDeep Cut85points
- Escargots à la bordelaiseDeep Cut85points
- Escargots à la franc-comtoiseDeep 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.