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| Keywords: cheese food i ate this iatethis pickles ploughman's ploughmans project 365 project365 indoor Sitting in my hot office, it occured to me that I really fancied a Ploughman's for tea, so I made an appropriate stop on the way home. Curious as to what the traditional elements of a Plouhgman's are, I researched a little, and wasn't I surprised. The essential elements are bread, cheese, pickle or pickled onions, and seemingly beer. What surprised me is that it's a new tradition. The name conjures a fieldworker, centuries ago, ploughing the furrow then laying his plough aside as he mops his beaded brow and munches his bread and cheese. Not so. The origins of the lunch are hugely contested, but it's generally agreed that it was born in the late fifties. It seems it was a ploy by the milk marketing board to increase the consumption of the now unrationed cheese. Being a very simple meal for even the roughest publican to prepare, it was seized on by breweries as an easy way to get people eating meals in pubs. This two pronged assault seems to have resulted in it becoming quickly entrenched in the public consciousness. Either way, it does surely taste good. :) Sitting in my hot office, it occured to me that I really fancied a Ploughman's for tea, so I made an appropriate stop on the way home. Curious as to what the traditional elements of a Plouhgman's are, I researched a little, and wasn't I surprised. The essential elements are bread, cheese, pickle or pickled onions, and seemingly beer. What surprised me is that it's a new tradition. The name conjures a fieldworker, centuries ago, ploughing the furrow then laying his plough aside as he mops his beaded brow and munches his bread and cheese. Not so. The origins of the lunch are hugely contested, but it's generally agreed that it was born in the late fifties. It seems it was a ploy by the milk marketing board to increase the consumption of the now unrationed cheese. Being a very simple meal for even the roughest publican to prepare, it was seized on by breweries as an easy way to get people eating meals in pubs. This two pronged assault seems to have resulted in it becoming quickly entrenched in the public consciousness. Either way, it does surely taste good. :) | ||||
