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
- Hollygog puddingDeep Cut85points
- Homard à l'armoricaineDeep Cut85points
- Homard bleuDeep Cut85points
- Homity pieDeep Cut85points
- Honey roast hamDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb toffeeDeep Cut85points
- Horseradish sauceDeep Cut85points
- Hot cross bunDeep Cut85points
- Hot water crust pastryDeep Cut85points
- Hotch potchDeep Cut85points
- HovisDeep Cut85points
- Hovis biscuitDeep Cut85points
- HowtowdieDeep Cut85points
- Huff pasteDeep Cut85points
- HuffkinDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive d'Aix-en-ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de CorseDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de Haute-ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de la vallée des Baux-de-ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de NiceDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de NîmesDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de NyonsDeep Cut85points
- Huile d'olive de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Huile de noixDeep Cut85points
- Huîtres chaudes au champagneDeep Cut85points
- Huîtres d'ArcachonDeep Cut85points
- Huîtres de BouziguesDeep Cut85points
- Huîtres de CancaleDeep Cut85points
- Huîtres de Marennes-OléronDeep Cut85points
- Hula HoopsDeep Cut85points
- Humble pieDeep Cut85points
- HumbugDeep Cut85points
- Hunter's chickenDeep Cut85points
- HuntsmanDeep Cut85points
- Ice cream oysterDeep Cut85points
- Ice cream sliderDeep Cut85points
- Iced bunDeep Cut85points
- Iced gemsDeep Cut85points
- Idéal mâconnaisDeep Cut85points
- Île d'YeuDeep Cut85points
- Ile flottanteDeep Cut85points
- ImbrucciataDeep Cut85points
- Infinity chiliDeep Cut85points
- Innes BrickDeep Cut85points
- Instant WhipDeep Cut85points
- InuliataDeep Cut85points
- Inverness-shire BlueDeep Cut85points
- Ipso sweetsDeep Cut85points
- Irish breakfastDeep Cut85points
- Irish stewDeep 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.