Krillion Recorded answers
689 recorded answers
How to approach it
Most people answer with the first thing in the fridge and stop there, which is why so many entries land in the low bands. Reverse the order instead: rather than hunting for small vegetables, walk through edible plant families one at a time and, inside each, drop to the smallest named varieties. Seed catalogues, growers' market stalls and foraging guides beat the supermarket as sources, because they keep the proper names that never come up in ordinary conversation. Before committing, check two things: the volume really is below that of a common bulb, and what you are writing is a specific name rather than a generic description. When torn between a safe option and an odd but verifiable one, the odd one usually pays better, provided the spelling holds up.
Get a hint
Start from the size of a common kitchen bulb and shrink: whatever you picture has to sit comfortably below that benchmark, so think in handfuls and spoonfuls rather than single servings.
A little more
Move past the mainstream shelf toward regional and heritage names, since the answer pool runs heavy on named cultivars from seed catalogues, speciality growers and foraging guides.
One step further
Accepted entries tend to be a two-word name with the variety in front of the thing, and the thing is usually sliced, shelled or picked in quantity rather than peeled and chopped as a stew base.
Reveal answers 689
- Termite mushroomDeep Cut85points
- Thassos oliveDeep Cut85points
- The millerDeep Cut85points
- Three-cornered leekDeep Cut85points
- Tiger's eye beanDeep Cut85points
- TindaDeep Cut85points
- Tonkin jasmine flowerDeep Cut85points
- Toon shootsDeep Cut85points
- Toothed jelly fungusDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Moruga ScorpionDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad ScorpionDeep Cut85points
- UllucoDeep Cut85points
- UlupicaDeep Cut85points
- Upland cressDeep Cut85points
- Urad beanDeep Cut85points
- Velvet beanDeep Cut85points
- Verdale-de-l'Hérault oliveDeep Cut85points
- WakegiDeep Cut85points
- Water bambooDeep Cut85points
- Water caltropDeep Cut85points
- Water mimosaDeep Cut85points
- WaterblommetjieDeep Cut85points
- Weeping boleteDeep Cut85points
- Weeping milk capDeep Cut85points
- West Indian gherkinDeep Cut85points
- White ferula mushroomDeep Cut85points
- White icicle radishDeep Cut85points
- White turmericDeep Cut85points
- Wild asparagusDeep Cut85points
- Wine capDeep Cut85points
- Winged beanDeep Cut85points
- Wiri wiriDeep Cut85points
- Wood earDeep Cut85points
- Wood mushroomDeep Cut85points
- Woolly-capped suillusDeep Cut85points
- XiaomilaDeep Cut85points
- YampahDeep Cut85points
- Yellow brainDeep Cut85points
- Yellow chivesDeep Cut85points
- Yellow eye beanDeep Cut85points
- YellowfootDeep Cut85points
- Zolfino beanDeep Cut85points
- Adzuki beanRare60points
- Alfalfa sproutsRare60points
- Anaheim pepperRare60points
- ArugulaRare60points
- Baby artichokeRare60points
- Baby beetRare60points
- Baby bok choyRare60points
- Baby cornRare60points
Why these answers count
Scoring rewards specificity rather than plausibility. The lone hundred-point entry, Tomberry (100), is a miniature tomato sold as a novelty, a name almost nobody reaches for; the eighty-five tier then swallows the whole named-cultivar long tail, from 7 Pot pepper (85) and Adjuma (85) to Abalone mushroom (85) and Aborted entoloma (85). What those share is a proper name attached to a small edible, where the variety does the work and the base ingredient is something a shopper would never think to measure against a bulb. Lower bands belong to everyday produce anyone could list in five seconds, which is exactly why they pay less. The practical lesson is that a weird, specific, verifiable name beats a safe one, provided it really is smaller; obscurity is worth nothing if the entry is a normal-sized item wearing an exotic label.