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
- Little WallopDeep Cut85points
- LivarotDeep Cut85points
- LivernonDeep Cut85points
- LlanboidyDeep Cut85points
- LlymruDeep Cut85points
- LobbyDeep Cut85points
- Lobster ThermidorDeep Cut85points
- Loch Fyne oystersDeep Cut85points
- London bunDeep Cut85points
- London CheesecakeDeep Cut85points
- London cure smoked salmonDeep Cut85points
- LongeoleDeep Cut85points
- LonzuDeep Cut85points
- Lord LambourneDeep Cut85points
- Lord of the HundredsDeep Cut85points
- Lord SuffieldDeep Cut85points
- LormesDeep Cut85points
- Losange de ThiérarcheDeep Cut85points
- LossabaDeep Cut85points
- Lotte à l'armoricaineDeep Cut85points
- Lou CabriasDeep Cut85points
- Lou fassumDeep Cut85points
- Lou MagréDeep Cut85points
- Lou peyrouDeep Cut85points
- Lough Neagh eelDeep Cut85points
- Lough Neagh pollanDeep Cut85points
- LoukinkasDeep Cut85points
- Loup au fenouilDeep Cut85points
- Love HeartsDeep Cut85points
- Lucky tattieDeep Cut85points
- Lucombe's SeedlingDeep Cut85points
- LucquesDeep Cut85points
- Lunette de RomansDeep Cut85points
- LusignanDeep Cut85points
- Lye rollDeep Cut85points
- LymeswoldDeep Cut85points
- Lyonnaise potatoesDeep Cut85points
- Macaron d'AmiensDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de BoulayDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de CormeryDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de JoyeuseDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de MassiacDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de MontmorillonDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de NancyDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de Saint-ÉmilionDeep Cut85points
- Macaron de Saint-Jean-de-LuzDeep Cut85points
- Macaronade sétoiseDeep Cut85points
- Macaroni pieDeep Cut85points
- MacatiaDeep Cut85points
- Macédoine de légumesDeep 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.