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
- Langue LucullusDeep Cut85points
- Lapin à la moutardeDeep Cut85points
- Lapin à la provençaleDeep Cut85points
- Lapin au cidreDeep Cut85points
- Lapin aux pruneauxDeep Cut85points
- Lapin chasseurDeep Cut85points
- Lard paysanDeep Cut85points
- LardonsDeep Cut85points
- LarduDeep Cut85points
- Lardy cakeDeep Cut85points
- Larron d'OrsDeep Cut85points
- LaverbreadDeep Cut85points
- LavortDeep Cut85points
- Laxton's SuperbDeep Cut85points
- Le BarbeillonDeep Cut85points
- Le Bleu des BasquesDeep Cut85points
- Le Brebis de BersendDeep Cut85points
- Le Brebis du LochoisDeep Cut85points
- Le Brebis du pays de GrasseDeep Cut85points
- Le Délice du ChaletDeep Cut85points
- Le GramatDeep Cut85points
- Le Sire de CréquyDeep Cut85points
- Le welshDeep Cut85points
- Leconet sec et fraisDeep Cut85points
- Leek and potato soupDeep Cut85points
- Leek soupDeep Cut85points
- Lemon curdDeep Cut85points
- Lemon curd tartDeep Cut85points
- Lemon drizzle cakeDeep Cut85points
- Lemon dropDeep Cut85points
- Lemon puffsDeep Cut85points
- Lentille verte du BerryDeep Cut85points
- Lentillon de ChampagneDeep Cut85points
- Lettuce soupDeep Cut85points
- LévejacDeep Cut85points
- Lièvre à la royaleDeep Cut85points
- Lièvre en cabessalDeep Cut85points
- Light cakesDeep Cut85points
- Likky pieDeep Cut85points
- Lincoln biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Lincolnshire plum breadDeep Cut85points
- Lincolnshire PoacherDeep Cut85points
- Lincolnshire sausageDeep Cut85points
- Lingot du NordDeep Cut85points
- LìnsegemììsDeep Cut85points
- Lion barDeep Cut85points
- LiquorDeep Cut85points
- LiquoriceDeep Cut85points
- Liquorice allsortsDeep Cut85points
- Little DerbyDeep 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.