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
- GriottineDeep Cut85points
- Gris du PérigordDeep Cut85points
- Grisette de MontpellierDeep Cut85points
- Groaty puddingDeep Cut85points
- Gros laitDeep Cut85points
- Gros lorrainDeep Cut85points
- Gros souperDeep Cut85points
- Gruth DhuDeep Cut85points
- GuerbignyDeep Cut85points
- Guernsey GâcheDeep Cut85points
- GugaDeep Cut85points
- GuimauveDeep Cut85points
- Gull eggDeep Cut85points
- Gurty puddingDeep Cut85points
- Gypsy creamsDeep Cut85points
- Gypsy tartDeep Cut85points
- Hachis ParmentierDeep Cut85points
- HafodDeep Cut85points
- Haggis pakoraDeep Cut85points
- Ham, egg and chipsDeep Cut85points
- Happy FacesDeep Cut85points
- Harbourne BlueDeep Cut85points
- Harengs marinésDeep Cut85points
- Harengs pommes à l'huileDeep Cut85points
- Haricot de CastelnaudaryDeep Cut85points
- Haricot de SoissonsDeep Cut85points
- Haricot tarbaisDeep Cut85points
- Haricots verts à la françaiseDeep Cut85points
- HarlechDeep Cut85points
- Harrogate BlueDeep Cut85points
- Harvey's SauceDeep Cut85points
- HasletDeep Cut85points
- Hasty puddingDeep Cut85points
- Hatted kitDeep Cut85points
- Hawick ballsDeep Cut85points
- Hawthornden appleDeep Cut85points
- Heather honeyDeep Cut85points
- Heavy cakeDeep Cut85points
- Hebridean BlueDeep Cut85points
- Henderson's RelishDeep Cut85points
- Herbes de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- HerbilletteDeep Cut85points
- Herdwick lambDeep Cut85points
- Hereford HopDeep Cut85points
- High teaDeep Cut85points
- Highland ToffeeDeep Cut85points
- Hindle WakesDeep Cut85points
- HochepotDeep Cut85points
- Hog's puddingDeep Cut85points
- HogganDeep 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.