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
- Thym de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Ti PavezDeep Cut85points
- TianDeep Cut85points
- TianuDeep Cut85points
- TicklemoreDeep Cut85points
- TielleDeep Cut85points
- TiffinDeep Cut85points
- Tiger breadDeep Cut85points
- TignardDeep Cut85points
- Time Out barDeep Cut85points
- Tin loafDeep Cut85points
- TindalooDeep Cut85points
- TinternDeep Cut85points
- Tipsy cakeDeep Cut85points
- Tipsy LairdDeep Cut85points
- Tobacco onionsDeep Cut85points
- TofaillesDeep Cut85points
- Toffee appleDeep Cut85points
- Toffee CrispDeep Cut85points
- Toffee popcornDeep Cut85points
- ToffoDeep Cut85points
- ToffypopsDeep Cut85points
- Tom PuttDeep Cut85points
- Tomate de MarmandeDeep Cut85points
- Tomates à la provençaleDeep Cut85points
- Tomates farciesDeep Cut85points
- Tome de BelleyDeep Cut85points
- Tome de CorseDeep Cut85points
- Tome de la BrigueDeep Cut85points
- Tome de la VésubieDeep Cut85points
- Tome de LévéjacDeep Cut85points
- Tome de RhuysDeep Cut85points
- Tome des BaugesDeep Cut85points
- Tome du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- Tome fraîcheDeep Cut85points
- Tomette de brebisDeep Cut85points
- TommeDeep Cut85points
- Tomme au fenouilDeep Cut85points
- Tomme au foinDeep Cut85points
- Tomme au marc de raisinDeep Cut85points
- Tomme blancheDeep Cut85points
- Tomme BoudaneDeep Cut85points
- Tomme ButoneDeep Cut85points
- Tomme catalaneDeep Cut85points
- Tomme céronnéeDeep Cut85points
- Tomme crayeuseDeep Cut85points
- Tomme d'AnnotDeep Cut85points
- Tomme d'ArlesDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de Banon à la sarietteDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de Banon au poivreDeep 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.