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
- Ficelle picardeDeep Cut85points
- FicelloDeep Cut85points
- Fidget pieDeep Cut85points
- Fiesta appleDeep Cut85points
- FifteensDeep Cut85points
- Fig rollDeep Cut85points
- FigatelluDeep Cut85points
- Figgy obbinDeep Cut85points
- FigouDeep Cut85points
- Figue cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Figue de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Figue de SollièsDeep Cut85points
- Figuette du TarnDeep Cut85points
- Filets de percheDeep Cut85points
- Filets de sole BercyDeep Cut85points
- Fillet of Beef Prince AlbertDeep Cut85points
- Fin de siècleDeep Cut85points
- Fin gras du MézencDeep Cut85points
- FinancierDeep Cut85points
- Findus Crispy PancakesDeep Cut85points
- Fine Fettle YorkshireDeep Cut85points
- Fines herbesDeep Cut85points
- Finger bunDeep Cut85points
- Finn cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Finnan haddieDeep Cut85points
- FionDeep Cut85points
- Fish finger sandwichDeep Cut85points
- Fish pasteDeep Cut85points
- Fisherman's FriendDeep Cut85points
- Fium'OrboDeep Cut85points
- FizzersDeep Cut85points
- FlageoletDeep Cut85points
- Flamenco appleDeep Cut85points
- FlamicheDeep Cut85points
- FlamusseDeep Cut85points
- Flan à la farine de châtaigneDeep Cut85points
- Flan maraîchinDeep Cut85points
- Flan pâtissierDeep Cut85points
- FlanbyDeep Cut85points
- FlaugnardeDeep Cut85points
- FlauneDeep Cut85points
- FleischschnackaDeep Cut85points
- Fleur bleueDeep Cut85points
- Fleur de selDeep Cut85points
- Flocon d'AriègeDeep Cut85points
- FlorentineDeep Cut85points
- Flower MarieDeep Cut85points
- Flower of Kent appleDeep Cut85points
- FlummeryDeep Cut85points
- FlumpsDeep 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.