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
- PolkaDeep Cut85points
- Polo mintsDeep Cut85points
- Polonaise sauceDeep Cut85points
- PolonyDeep Cut85points
- Pom-BearDeep Cut85points
- PomméDeep Cut85points
- Pomme de terre de l'île de RéDeep Cut85points
- Pomme de terre de MervilleDeep Cut85points
- Pomme du LimousinDeep Cut85points
- Pommes allumettesDeep Cut85points
- Pommes boulangèreDeep Cut85points
- Pommes ByronDeep Cut85points
- Pommes châteauDeep Cut85points
- Pommes de terre au lardDeep Cut85points
- Pommes gaufrettesDeep Cut85points
- Pommes LoretteDeep Cut85points
- Pommes MacaireDeep Cut85points
- Pommes mousselineDeep Cut85points
- Pommes noisettesDeep Cut85points
- Pommes paillassonDeep Cut85points
- Pommes Pont-NeufDeep Cut85points
- Pommes rissoléesDeep Cut85points
- Pommes sarladaisesDeep Cut85points
- Pommes souffléesDeep Cut85points
- Pompe à l'huileDeep Cut85points
- Pompe aux grattonsDeep Cut85points
- Pompe aux pommesDeep Cut85points
- Pont-l'ÉvêqueDeep Cut85points
- Pont-neuf (pastry)Deep Cut85points
- Pontefract cakeDeep Cut85points
- Poor knights of WindsorDeep Cut85points
- Pope LadiesDeep Cut85points
- Popeseye steakDeep Cut85points
- PoppetsDeep Cut85points
- Porc à la cévenoleDeep Cut85points
- Porc noir de BigorreDeep Cut85points
- Porchetta niçoiseDeep Cut85points
- Port SalutDeep Cut85points
- Pot de crèmeDeep Cut85points
- Pot NoodleDeep Cut85points
- Potage Saint-GermainDeep Cut85points
- Potato apple cakeDeep Cut85points
- Potato farlDeep Cut85points
- Potato pavéDeep Cut85points
- Potato waffleDeep Cut85points
- PotéeDeep Cut85points
- Potée alsacienneDeep Cut85points
- Potée auvergnateDeep Cut85points
- Potée berrichonneDeep Cut85points
- Potée bourguignonneDeep 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.