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
- Pâté de PâquesDeep Cut85points
- Pâté de PérigueuxDeep Cut85points
- Pâté de PézenasDeep Cut85points
- Pâté de ragondinDeep Cut85points
- Pâté HénaffDeep Cut85points
- Pâté lorrainDeep Cut85points
- Pâte sabléeDeep Cut85points
- Pâte sucréeDeep Cut85points
- Pâtefine fortDeep Cut85points
- Pâtes d'AlsaceDeep Cut85points
- PathiaDeep Cut85points
- Pâtichon de ChâtillonDeep Cut85points
- PatranqueDeep Cut85points
- PaupiettesDeep Cut85points
- Pavé aux alguesDeep Cut85points
- Pavé beauceronDeep Cut85points
- Pavé corrézienDeep Cut85points
- Pavé d'AugeDeep Cut85points
- Pavé d'IsignyDeep Cut85points
- Pavé de BordeauxDeep Cut85points
- Pavé de CorbieDeep Cut85points
- Pavé de La RochelleDeep Cut85points
- Pavé de MontreuilDeep Cut85points
- Pavé de RoubaixDeep Cut85points
- Pavé du GoisDeep Cut85points
- Pavé du NordDeep Cut85points
- Pavé du PlessisDeep Cut85points
- Pavé du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- Pavé fermier à l'échaloteDeep Cut85points
- PavinDeep Cut85points
- PaxoDeep Cut85points
- Pea fritterDeep Cut85points
- Pea wetDeep Cut85points
- Peach MelbaDeep Cut85points
- Pear dropsDeep Cut85points
- Pease puddingDeep Cut85points
- Peasgood's NonsuchDeep Cut85points
- Pedigree Welsh porkDeep Cut85points
- Peggy's legDeep Cut85points
- PélaDeep Cut85points
- PélardonDeep Cut85points
- Pembrokeshire earliesDeep Cut85points
- Pembrokeshire oystersDeep Cut85points
- Penclawdd cocklesDeep Cut85points
- Penguin biscuitDeep Cut85points
- PeperamiDeep Cut85points
- PépitoDeep Cut85points
- Peppermint creamDeep Cut85points
- PerailDeep Cut85points
- PérassuDeep 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.