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
- Flûte (bread)Deep Cut85points
- Flying saucerDeep Cut85points
- FlyteDeep Cut85points
- Foam shrimpsDeep Cut85points
- Foie de veau à la lyonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- Fol ÉpiDeep Cut85points
- Fond de veauDeep Cut85points
- Fondant au chocolatDeep Cut85points
- Fondant bauloisDeep Cut85points
- Fondant fancyDeep Cut85points
- Fondu creusoisDeep Cut85points
- Fondue bourguignonneDeep Cut85points
- Fondue comtoiseDeep Cut85points
- Fondue normandeDeep Cut85points
- Fondue vigneronneDeep Cut85points
- FontainebleauDeep Cut85points
- ForestineDeep Cut85points
- Forfar bridieDeep Cut85points
- Fort de BéthuneDeep Cut85points
- FouaceDeep Cut85points
- Fouace nantaiseDeep Cut85points
- Fouchtra de chèvreDeep Cut85points
- FoudjouDeep Cut85points
- FouéeDeep Cut85points
- FougasseDeep Cut85points
- FougerusDeep Cut85points
- FourmagéeDeep Cut85points
- Fourme d'AmbertDeep Cut85points
- Fourme d'AscoDeep Cut85points
- Fourme d'YssingeauxDeep Cut85points
- Fourme de MontbrisonDeep Cut85points
- Fourme de RochefortDeep Cut85points
- Fourme du MézencDeep Cut85points
- Fox's Crunch CreamsDeep Cut85points
- Fox's Glacier MintsDeep Cut85points
- Fox's VienneseDeep Cut85points
- Foxwhelp appleDeep Cut85points
- Fraise de PlougastelDeep Cut85points
- Fraise de veauDeep Cut85points
- Fraise TagadaDeep Cut85points
- FraisierDeep Cut85points
- FramboisierDeep Cut85points
- FrangipaneDeep Cut85points
- Fray Bentos pieDeep Cut85points
- FrazzlesDeep Cut85points
- FreddoDeep Cut85points
- FreginatDeep Cut85points
- French tacosDeep Cut85points
- FrescatiDeep Cut85points
- FressureDeep 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.