Name a French or British food

October 29, 2026 · Daily Dive #106

Explore 3,528 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on October 29, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 16,727 recorded answers

3,528 recorded names on October 29, 2026, 3,240 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Head for the regional larder rather than the restaurant menu: obscure farmhouse produce and local specialities sit far higher on this list than celebrated national dishes. Any named dish, cheese, cured meat, bake, preserve or drink tied to a documented regional tradition counts; vague one-word categories, chain-restaurant items and invented fusion plates do not.

3,528 recorded answers3,240 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,23985 pts
  • Rare24460 pts
  • Schooler3430 pts
  • Plankton1010 pts
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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
  • MassepainDeep Cut85points
  • MatafanDeep Cut85points
  • MatchmakersDeep Cut85points
  • MateloteDeep Cut85points
  • Matelote normandeDeep Cut85points
  • MatétéDeep Cut85points
  • MatignonDeep Cut85points
  • MatouilleDeep Cut85points
  • Maud's Poor BearDeep Cut85points
  • MawmeneeDeep Cut85points
  • McVitie's GoldDeep Cut85points
  • Meat and potato pieDeep Cut85points
  • Meat fruitDeep Cut85points
  • Melba toastDeep Cut85points
  • Melon charentaisDeep Cut85points
  • Melon de CavaillonDeep Cut85points
  • Melon with hamDeep Cut85points
  • MelsatDeep Cut85points
  • Melting momentDeep Cut85points
  • Melton Hunt cakeDeep Cut85points
  • Melton Mowbray pork pieDeep Cut85points
  • MélusineDeep Cut85points
  • MendiantDeep Cut85points
  • Merlan à la crèmeDeep Cut85points
  • Merlu koxkeraDeep Cut85points
  • Merry WyfeDeep Cut85points
  • MerveillesDeep Cut85points
  • MerveilleuxDeep Cut85points
  • MesclunDeep Cut85points
  • MettonDeep Cut85points
  • MétureDeep Cut85points
  • MeuretteDeep Cut85points
  • MicheDeep Cut85points
  • MichelettesDeep Cut85points
  • MichetteDeep Cut85points
  • MichokoDeep Cut85points
  • Midget GemsDeep Cut85points
  • Miel d'AlsaceDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de CorseDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de lavandeDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de NarbonneDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de sapin des VosgesDeep Cut85points
  • Miel de tilleul de PicardieDeep Cut85points
  • Miel des CévennesDeep Cut85points
  • MigliacciuDeep Cut85points
  • Mignonette sauceDeep Cut85points
  • Milk bottlesDeep Cut85points
  • Milk rollDeep Cut85points
  • Milk TrayDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 29 Oct, 08:25 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy