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
- Roue de RisDeep Cut85points
- RouelleDeep Cut85points
- Rougail morueDeep Cut85points
- Rougail saucisseDeep Cut85points
- RouilleDeep Cut85points
- Rouille de seicheDeep Cut85points
- Roulade SévignéDeep Cut85points
- Roule cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Rouleau de BeaulieuDeep Cut85points
- RousquilleDeep Cut85points
- Rove de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Rowan jellyDeep Cut85points
- Rowntree's Fruit GumsDeep Cut85points
- Rowntree's Fruit PastillesDeep Cut85points
- Rowntree's RandomsDeep Cut85points
- RuffecDeep Cut85points
- Rum butterDeep Cut85points
- Rum truffleDeep Cut85points
- RumbledethumpsDeep Cut85points
- RusseDeep Cut85points
- RyvitaDeep Cut85points
- SabléDeep Cut85points
- Sablé bretonDeep Cut85points
- Sablé de WissantDeep Cut85points
- SableauDeep Cut85points
- SabodetDeep Cut85points
- SacristainDeep Cut85points
- Sad cakeDeep Cut85points
- Saffron bunDeep Cut85points
- Safran du QuercyDeep Cut85points
- Sage and onion stuffingDeep Cut85points
- Sage DerbyDeep Cut85points
- Sago puddingDeep Cut85points
- Saint AgurDeep Cut85points
- Saint AlbrayDeep Cut85points
- Saint AndréDeep Cut85points
- Saint MôretDeep Cut85points
- Saint-AlgueDeep Cut85points
- Saint-AubinDeep Cut85points
- Saint-EpvreDeep Cut85points
- Saint-FélicienDeep Cut85points
- Saint-FlorentinDeep Cut85points
- Saint-FoinDeep Cut85points
- Saint-GelaisDeep Cut85points
- Saint-HonoréDeep Cut85points
- Saint-LaurentDeep Cut85points
- Saint-MarcDeep Cut85points
- Saint-MarcellinDeep Cut85points
- Saint-NectaireDeep Cut85points
- Saint-PaulinDeep 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.