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
- OggyDeep Cut85points
- OgleshieldDeep Cut85points
- Oie farcie aux marronsDeep Cut85points
- Oignon de RoscoffDeep Cut85points
- Oignon doux des CévennesDeep Cut85points
- OilleDeep Cut85points
- OK SauceDeep Cut85points
- Old WinchesterDeep Cut85points
- Oldbury tartDeep Cut85points
- OléronDeep Cut85points
- Olive de NiceDeep Cut85points
- Olive de NîmesDeep Cut85points
- Olive noire de NyonsDeep Cut85points
- Olives cassées de la vallée des BauxDeep Cut85points
- OlivetDeep Cut85points
- OlladaDeep Cut85points
- Omelette au brocciuDeep Cut85points
- Omelette aux cèpesDeep Cut85points
- Omelette aux fines herbesDeep Cut85points
- Omelette aux piments douxDeep Cut85points
- Omelette aux truffesDeep Cut85points
- Omelette de la mère PoulardDeep Cut85points
- Omelette ParmentierDeep Cut85points
- Omelette savoyardeDeep Cut85points
- Onglet à l'échaloteDeep Cut85points
- Onion gravyDeep Cut85points
- Onion sauceDeep Cut85points
- OranaisDeep Cut85points
- OrangetteDeep Cut85points
- Oreiller de la Belle AuroreDeep Cut85points
- Oreilles d'âneDeep Cut85points
- OreillettesDeep Cut85points
- Orkney beefDeep Cut85points
- Orkney cheddarDeep Cut85points
- Orkney lambDeep Cut85points
- Ormskirk gingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- Ortolan cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Ossau-IratyDeep Cut85points
- OsterlammeleDeep Cut85points
- OursinadeDeep Cut85points
- OustetDeep Cut85points
- Oven bottom muffinDeep Cut85points
- Oxford BlueDeep Cut85points
- Oxford IsisDeep Cut85points
- Oxford marmaladeDeep Cut85points
- Oxford puddingDeep Cut85points
- Oxford sausageDeep Cut85points
- OxoDeep Cut85points
- Oxtail soupDeep Cut85points
- P'it saint-faronDeep 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.