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
- Armagh black butterDeep Cut85points
- Armagh Bramley appleDeep Cut85points
- Army & Navy sweetsDeep Cut85points
- ArnéguiDeep Cut85points
- Arôme au vin blancDeep Cut85points
- Arôme de Gêne de MarcDeep Cut85points
- ArrignyDeep Cut85points
- Arrowroot biscuitDeep Cut85points
- ArthonDeep Cut85points
- Artichaut camus de BretagneDeep Cut85points
- Artichaut du RoussillonDeep Cut85points
- Artichauts vinaigretteDeep Cut85points
- ArtisonsDeep Cut85points
- Ashbourne gingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- Ashdown ForestersDeep Cut85points
- Ashmead's KernelDeep Cut85points
- Asperge d'ArgenteuilDeep Cut85points
- Asperges des LandesDeep Cut85points
- Asperges sauce mousselineDeep Cut85points
- Assiette lorraineDeep Cut85points
- AstrosDeep Cut85points
- AtoraDeep Cut85points
- AtriauxDeep Cut85points
- Aubergines à la bonifacienneDeep Cut85points
- Aulnay-de-SaintongeDeep Cut85points
- AunisDeep Cut85points
- Autumn puddingDeep Cut85points
- Autun cheeseDeep Cut85points
- AvalinDeep Cut85points
- AxoaDeep Cut85points
- Aylesbury duckDeep Cut85points
- Ayrshire baconDeep Cut85points
- Ayrshire new potatoesDeep Cut85points
- AziminuDeep Cut85points
- Aztec barDeep Cut85points
- Baba au rhumDeep Cut85points
- BabelutteDeep Cut85points
- BabybelDeep Cut85points
- Bacon and cabbageDeep Cut85points
- Bacon and egg pieDeep Cut85points
- Bacon FriesDeep Cut85points
- Baconique mealDeep Cut85points
- BaeckeoffeDeep Cut85points
- Baguette laonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- BajanaDeep Cut85points
- Baked appleDeep Cut85points
- Bakewell puddingDeep Cut85points
- Bakewell tartDeep Cut85points
- BallottineDeep Cut85points
- Ballyfatten appleDeep 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.