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
- Bloody PloughmanDeep Cut85points
- BloomerDeep Cut85points
- Blue MondayDeep Cut85points
- Blue RathgoreDeep Cut85points
- Blue RibandDeep Cut85points
- Blue StuartDeep Cut85points
- Blue WensleydaleDeep Cut85points
- BN biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Boeuf à la modeDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf carottesDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf de BazasDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf de CharollesDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf gros selDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf mirotonDeep Cut85points
- Bœuf sauce maroillesDeep Cut85points
- BohémienneDeep Cut85points
- Boiled beef and carrotsDeep Cut85points
- BoilieDeep Cut85points
- BoisseauDeep Cut85points
- BokitDeep Cut85points
- Bombay mixDeep Cut85points
- Bombay potatoesDeep Cut85points
- Bombe glacéeDeep Cut85points
- Bon grivoisDeep Cut85points
- Bonbon aux cerises de CéretDeep Cut85points
- Bonbon cocoDeep Cut85points
- Bonbon cravateDeep Cut85points
- BonchesterDeep Cut85points
- BondardDeep Cut85points
- Bonde de GâtineDeep Cut85points
- BondonDeep Cut85points
- Bondon à la fleur de selDeep Cut85points
- Bonfire toffeeDeep Cut85points
- BonnagDeep Cut85points
- BonnotteDeep Cut85points
- Bons mayennaisDeep Cut85points
- Boost barDeep Cut85points
- Bordelaise sauceDeep Cut85points
- Border tartDeep Cut85points
- Bosson macéréDeep Cut85points
- BostockDeep Cut85points
- Bosworth AshDeep Cut85points
- Bosworth jumblesDeep Cut85points
- BottargaDeep Cut85points
- BottereauxDeep Cut85points
- BoucaDeep Cut85points
- BoucantrinDeep Cut85points
- Bouchée au chocolatDeep Cut85points
- Bouchon charentaisDeep Cut85points
- Bouchon de BordeauxDeep 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.