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
- Ballylisk Triple RoseDeep Cut85points
- Balmoral chickenDeep Cut85points
- BaltiDeep Cut85points
- Balti pieDeep Cut85points
- BamalouDeep Cut85points
- Banana custardDeep Cut85points
- Banbury cakeDeep Cut85points
- Banbury cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Banjo barDeep Cut85points
- BannockDeep Cut85points
- BanonDeep Cut85points
- Bar au beurre blancDeep Cut85points
- Bar en croûte de selDeep Cut85points
- Bar-le-Duc jamDeep Cut85points
- Bara brithDeep Cut85points
- Bara ceirchDeep Cut85points
- Bara plancDeep Cut85points
- BarbajuanDeep Cut85points
- BarbereyDeep Cut85points
- Barèges-GavarnieDeep Cut85points
- BargkassDeep Cut85points
- Barkham BlueDeep Cut85points
- Barley breadDeep Cut85points
- Barley sugarDeep Cut85points
- Barm cakeDeep Cut85points
- BarmbrackDeep Cut85points
- Baron BigodDeep Cut85points
- BarousseDeep Cut85points
- BarquetteDeep Cut85points
- Barquette 3 ChatonsDeep Cut85points
- BastelleDeep Cut85points
- BâtardDeep Cut85points
- Batch loafDeep Cut85points
- Bath BlueDeep Cut85points
- Bath bunDeep Cut85points
- Bath chapDeep Cut85points
- Bath OliverDeep Cut85points
- Bath Soft CheeseDeep Cut85points
- BatistinDeep Cut85points
- Battalia pieDeep Cut85points
- Battenberg cakeDeep Cut85points
- Baud breeDeep Cut85points
- Bavarian creamDeep Cut85points
- Bavette à l'échaloteDeep Cut85points
- Bayard GourmandDeep Cut85points
- BayenneDeep Cut85points
- Béa du RoussillonDeep Cut85points
- BeaufortDeep Cut85points
- Beaujolais cheeseDeep Cut85points
- BeaumontDeep 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.