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
- Sucre de pommeDeep Cut85points
- SuetDeep Cut85points
- Suet dumplingsDeep Cut85points
- Suet puddingDeep Cut85points
- Suffolk BangDeep Cut85points
- Suffolk GoldDeep Cut85points
- Suffolk hamDeep Cut85points
- Suffolk ruskDeep Cut85points
- Sugar miceDeep Cut85points
- Suisse de ValenceDeep Cut85points
- Summer puddingDeep Cut85points
- Sunset appleDeep Cut85points
- Suntan appleDeep Cut85points
- Super NoodlesDeep Cut85points
- Sussex pond puddingDeep Cut85points
- Sussex SlipcoteDeep Cut85points
- SwaledaleDeep Cut85points
- Swiss rollDeep Cut85points
- SyllabubDeep Cut85points
- Table creamDeep Cut85points
- TabletDeep Cut85points
- Tablier de sapeurDeep Cut85points
- TaloDeep Cut85points
- Tansy cakeDeep Cut85points
- TapenadeDeep Cut85points
- Tapioca puddingDeep Cut85points
- TarentaisDeep Cut85points
- Tartare cheeseDeep Cut85points
- Tartare de saumonDeep Cut85points
- Tarte à l'badréeDeep Cut85points
- Tarte à l'oignonDeep Cut85points
- Tarte à la châtaigneDeep Cut85points
- Tarte à la tomate et moutardeDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au boudin noirDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au camembertDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au chocolatDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au comtéDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au fromage blancDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au maroillesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au me'ginDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au papinDeep Cut85points
- Tarte au sucreDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux abricotsDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux cerisesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux fraisesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux framboisesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux mirabellesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux myrtillesDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux noixDeep Cut85points
- Tarte aux pignonsDeep 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.