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May 12th, 2004, 06:36 PM
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Location: Champlain Valley, New York
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A question for our UK friends
I read a lot (too much according to Mrs WHD), and lately I've read a few books where the characters were in the UK and specifically mentioned going to the pub for a Ploughman's Lunch.
What on Earth is a Ploughman's Lunch?
This particular mechanic's lunch is usually a ham and cheese sandwich, potato chips, and a glass of iced tea.
Thanks for the help!
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May 13th, 2004, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Middleofnowhere, NH
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I'm not from the UK, but here's what I found, from: https://www.outlawcook.com/Page0117.html
In the country, and I don't mean the garden counties around London, but in the West Country, in Somerset, Devon, and Hereford -- in fact all over rural England -- the pubs serve one of the finest lunches ever devised, incredibly simple, rustic and plain, yet a meal that can be memorable given the right conditions. Called a "ploughman's lunch," it consists of a cut of Cheddar, a home-baked bread roll, pickled onions and a pint of beer ..... Adrian Bailey
That is, if you're lucky in your choice of a pub. The ploughman's lunch is easily the most universal pub snack but it is often a travesty of its namesake: a slab of factory Cheddar, a piece of "French" bread, and some over-pickled onions. When ploughmen actually ate such a lunch -- then simply called "bait" -- the cheese would have been equal in size to the bread and both would have come from the farm whose fields were being ploughed. And the onion would have been both fresh and raw and eaten like an apple.
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May 13th, 2004, 07:18 PM
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Thanks!
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March 23rd, 2022, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wenatchee, Soviet of WA., Ex U.S.A.
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Re: A question for our UK friends
How many varieties of beer? It is always cheddar?
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