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
- Biscotin d'AixDeep Cut85points
- BiscotteDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit de ChablisDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit de MontbozonDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit glacéDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit JocondeDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit rose de ReimsDeep Cut85points
- Bishop KennedyDeep Cut85points
- BistoDeep Cut85points
- Bite d'âneDeep Cut85points
- BitokDeep Cut85points
- Black BomberDeep Cut85points
- Black bunDeep Cut85points
- Black Eyed SusanDeep Cut85points
- Black JackDeep Cut85points
- Black MagicDeep Cut85points
- Black peasDeep Cut85points
- Blackberry and apple pieDeep Cut85points
- Blackberry pieDeep Cut85points
- Blacksticks BlueDeep Cut85points
- Blaeberry pieDeep Cut85points
- BlaffDeep Cut85points
- Blanc-manger cocoDeep Cut85points
- BlancmangeDeep Cut85points
- Blanquette de la merDeep Cut85points
- Blanquette de veauDeep Cut85points
- Blenheim OrangeDeep Cut85points
- Bleu d'AuvergneDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de BeauceDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de BonnevalDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de BresseDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de CorseDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de CostarosDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de FlorèzeDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de GexDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de LangeacDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de LaqueuilleDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de LoudesDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de Sainte-FoyDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de SéveracDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de TermignonDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de ThiézacDeep Cut85points
- Bleu de ValeyDeep Cut85points
- Bleu des CaussesDeep Cut85points
- Bleu des CayresDeep Cut85points
- Bleu du QuercyDeep Cut85points
- Bleu du Vercors-SassenageDeep Cut85points
- Blissful Blue BuffaloDeep Cut85points
- BloaterDeep 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.