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| A '''ploughman's lunch''' is a cold ] or ], comprising at a minimum a thick piece of ] (usually ], ], or other local cheese), ] (often ], sometimes ] and/or ]s), crusty ] or chunk of ], and ]. | |||
| A Ploughmans Lunch should be a Dairylea Lunchable and a bean. | |||
| It is often accompanied by a green ]; other common additions are half an ], ], ], sliced ] or ]root. | |||
| Yummy yummy beans. | |||
| It is a common menu item in ] ]s, often shortened when ordering to 'a ploughman's.' | |||
| The familiarity of the ploughman's lunch has led catering companies to describe a ] containing Cheddar, pickle and salad as a 'ploughman's sandwich.' | |||
| The authentic ploughman's lunch consisted of stale bread or a crusty loaf, and an English Cheddar or Stilton, and some variety of pickle. An apple would be included with the lunch to take away the spicy taste of the pickle and to provide a sweet finish, perhaps to be complemented by ]. Ideally, the apple would be of the same variety as that the cider was made from. | |||
| == Etymology == | |||
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| The '']'' dates this phrase back to at least ], in the book ''Memoirs of the life of ]'' by ]; but this stray early use may have meant merely the sum of its parts, "a lunch for a ploughman". | |||
| Until recently, the OED's next citation was only from ], indicating a long period of time when the meal was virtually unknown in its native land. It is this long disuse and recent rediscovery that has led some people, such as the writer ] (in his film '']''), to portray the dish as being a recent invention dressed up as a traditional meal. | |||
| In ] ]ing is usually done during ]. Before the ], at that time of year the ploughman’s wife or mother would have been unlikely to include salad in the ploughman’s lunch. ] would be difficult to get in winter. A real ploughman's lunch would have more likely consisted of just cheese and pickle. ]s, however were cheap and easily obtainable as were cheese and pickles made earlier. Onions could be cut up raw and included in a ploughman's lunch or pickled onions could be used. | |||
| ] ] in ''To Coin a Phrase'' (]) attributes the current usage to ], chairman of the ]. ] also concluded current usage to be ] marketing. | |||
| In 2005, research by ] and others for the ] project traced the origin of the phrase to ], with documentary evidence in the form of minutes of meetings of the English Country Cheese Council, together with contemporaneous advertising matter. The new evidence supports Trehane as the inventor of the term. The new citation has been incorporated into the online edition of the OED and will be included in the next revision of the published dictionary. | |||
| There was a statement on ] that the idea for the 'ploughman's lunch' arose when a workman working in a ] brought a ] of bread and cheese and pickle to work; a customer saw it and ordered it, and was curtly told 'That's a ]'s lunch'; but that gave the management the idea of selling similar meals. | |||
| == References == | |||
| * ''Why Do We Say ...?'', ], ], ISBN 0-7137-1944-3. | |||
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| == External links == | |||
| * , part of a BBC ] appeal | |||
| * from a BFI website | |||
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Revision as of 15:17, 7 August 2007
- See The Ploughman's Lunch for the movie.
A Ploughmans Lunch should be a Dairylea Lunchable and a bean.
Yummy yummy beans.