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
- Tomme de chèvreDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de FaucignyDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de l'AuxoisDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de l'UbayeDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de LomagneDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de MontagneDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de ProvenceDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de RilhacDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de RomansDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de SavoieDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de SeysselDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de ThônesDeep Cut85points
- Tomme de Val d'IsèreDeep Cut85points
- Tomme des PyrénéesDeep Cut85points
- Tomme des Quatre Dames de ForcalquierDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du ChampsaurDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du JuraDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du LimousinDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du Mont-CenisDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du MorvanDeep Cut85points
- Tomme du RevardDeep Cut85points
- Tomme fermière des Hautes-VosgesDeep Cut85points
- Tomme forte de SavoieDeep Cut85points
- Tommette de ClunyDeep Cut85points
- Tooty FrootiesDeep Cut85points
- Topic barDeep Cut85points
- Tordu du GersDeep Cut85points
- TornegusDeep Cut85points
- TortillonDeep Cut85points
- Tottenham cakeDeep Cut85points
- ToucyDeep Cut85points
- TourinDeep Cut85points
- TourmaletDeep Cut85points
- Tourment d'amourDeep Cut85points
- Tournedos RossiniDeep Cut85points
- Tournon-Saint-PierreDeep Cut85points
- TouronDeep Cut85points
- Tourrée de l'AubierDeep Cut85points
- Tourrier de l'aubierDeep Cut85points
- Tourte de blettesDeep Cut85points
- Tourte des PyrénéesDeep Cut85points
- Tourteau fromagéDeep Cut85points
- Tourteau mayonnaiseDeep Cut85points
- TourtonDeep Cut85points
- TourtousDeep Cut85points
- TracleDeep Cut85points
- Transform-A-SnackDeep Cut85points
- Trappe de BricquebecDeep Cut85points
- Trappe de la CoudreDeep Cut85points
- Trappe de TimadeucDeep 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.