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
- Galaxy CountersDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy RippleDeep Cut85points
- Galet de BigorreDeep Cut85points
- Galet de la LoireDeep Cut85points
- Galet solognotDeep Cut85points
- Galette aux pommes de terreDeep Cut85points
- Galette bressaneDeep Cut85points
- Galette comtoiseDeep Cut85points
- Galette de Pont-AvenDeep Cut85points
- Galette pérougienneDeep Cut85points
- Galette-saucisseDeep Cut85points
- Galettes Saint-MichelDeep Cut85points
- GalipettesDeep Cut85points
- Galloway CheddarDeep Cut85points
- GalopinDeep Cut85points
- Game chipsDeep Cut85points
- Game pieDeep Cut85points
- GammonDeep Cut85points
- Gammon and pineappleDeep Cut85points
- GanacheDeep Cut85points
- GandeuillotDeep Cut85points
- GansesDeep Cut85points
- GanzeltopfDeep Cut85points
- GaperonDeep Cut85points
- GarbureDeep Cut85points
- Gardian cheeseDeep Cut85points
- GardianeDeep Cut85points
- Garibaldi biscuitDeep Cut85points
- GariguetteDeep Cut85points
- Garlic butterDeep Cut85points
- Garlic confitDeep Cut85points
- Gascoyne's ScarletDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau à la brocheDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau à la châtaigneDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau au yaourtDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau aux noixDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau BasqueDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau battuDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau bretonDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau ConcordeDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau creusoisDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau de crêpesDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau de foies de volailleDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau de plombDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau de rizDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau de SavoieDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau des roisDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau fouettéDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau magiqueDeep Cut85points
- Gâteau maniocDeep 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.