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A good old fashioned ploughmans.

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Whatever happened to a good old fashioned ploughmans lunch? I used to love going to a pub and having a pint and a ploughmans on a nice summers day but in recent years they have either disappeared off the menu or been substituted with a gentrified or vegan version which just doesn't cut the mustard.
What would make its way onto your ploughmans plate?
 
I do not recall seeing a
'Ploughman's Lunch"
on a menu for many years.

Hoping to get down to Wiltshire and Somerset later in the year where there are a couple of specific pubs which used to offer a really good Ploughman's - from my personal knowledge.

Will have to check them out.
 
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On my trips to the Mother Country I find there's a difference between the traditional rural pub with tasty affordable traditional meals which are filling - and the other sort: "poseur pubs" serving five artistically arranged peas on an uncontrollable oblong plate with six chips and a piece of fish. The former usually do a traditional ploughman's...

This is what I'd have: a few local cheeses, some bread rolls, chutney and/or piccalilli, a pork pie, some pickled onions and perhaps some leftover breakfast bangers. However, it's highly unlikely a real ploughman would've been able to afford that!
 
How many younger customers know what a ploughman was.
Total respect for those that would walk a full day behind a team of Horses wrestling with the handles of a Plough. Hard men in those days

Agree the traditional plate of Ploughman's have disappeared from most Pubs in my area. I guess do to there being less call for it in preference for a fancy salad or fast food type lunch.

The talk of cheese, pie, pickles and crusty bread is upsetting my taste buds, might have to make alterations to "her" next shopping list but expect would be told do you know the price of a jar of Pickled Onions etc and most supermarket Pork Pies are not worth eating.
 
Byronic said:
I do not recall seeing a
'Ploughman's Lunch"
on a menu for many years.

Hoping to get down to Wiltshand Somerset later in the year where there are a couple of specific pubs which used to offer a really good Ploughman's - from my personal knowledge.

Will have to check them out.
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I used to jump onto the A49 just south of Warrington when heading south to Hereford. About 2 miles down the road was a pub called the Hollybush. Always stopped without fail and had a ploughmans. Proper old fashioned pub with an orchard. Then one year, all change. It had been bought out and was little more than a chain pub. No character, no ploughmans as they told me no one asked for them. I haven't been back in 20 years.
 
Redwill said:
How many younger customers know what a ploughman was.
Total respect for those that would walk a full day behind a team of Horses wrestling with the handles of a Plough. Hard men in those days

Agree the traditional plate of Ploughman's have disappeared from most Pubs in my area. I guess do to there being less call for it in preference for a fancy salad or fast food type lunch.

The talk of cheese, pie, pickles and crusty bread is upsetting my taste buds, might have to make alterations to "her" next shopping list but expect would be told do you know the price of a jar of Pickled Onions etc and most supermarket Pork Pies are not worth eating.
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I belive its not down to hard toiling farm hands slogging behind a team of horses.

The ploughman's lunch was a marketing initiative from the government and the cheese bureau ( cheese producers)

To promote and elevate sales of British cheeses between 1950,s and 70 after the affects of rationing.

Id still eat one right now though 😋
 
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