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
- Sauce rouennaiseDeep Cut85points
- Sauce Sainte-MenehouldDeep Cut85points
- Sauce samouraïDeep Cut85points
- Sauce SoubiseDeep Cut85points
- Sauce suprêmeDeep Cut85points
- Sauce suzetteDeep Cut85points
- Sauce TalleyrandDeep Cut85points
- Sauce tyrolienneDeep Cut85points
- Sauce VéronDeep Cut85points
- Sauce verteDeep Cut85points
- Sauce viergeDeep Cut85points
- Sauce VilleroiDeep Cut85points
- Sauce vin blancDeep Cut85points
- Sauce VincentDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse au PiconDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse aux lentillesDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse d'herbeDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse d'OuessantDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de chouDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de foieDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de LacauneDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de MolèneDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de MontbéliardDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de MorteauDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de StrasbourgDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse de ToulouseDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse sècheDeep Cut85points
- Saucisse-puréeDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson à l'ailDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson briochéDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson chaudDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson d'ArlesDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson de l'ArdècheDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson de LyonDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson pistachéDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson sec d'AuvergneDeep Cut85points
- Saumon à l'oseilleDeep Cut85points
- SaupiquetDeep Cut85points
- Sausage casseroleDeep Cut85points
- Sausage sandwichDeep Cut85points
- Sausage, egg and chipsDeep Cut85points
- Sauté de veauDeep Cut85points
- SavaneDeep Cut85points
- SavarinDeep Cut85points
- SavaronDeep Cut85points
- Saveloy dipDeep Cut85points
- SavoraDeep Cut85points
- Savoury cobblerDeep Cut85points
- Savoury minceDeep Cut85points
- Savoury pattieDeep 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.