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What is a ploughman?

british """food""" is fucking pathetic

>>14073071
>A ploughman's lunch is an English cold meal of bread, cheese, and onions, usually accompanied by butter and pickles.
>Additional items such as ham, green salad, hard boiled eggs, and apple can be added.
>As its name suggests, it is most commonly eaten at lunchtime, is particularly associated with pubs, and often accompanied with beer.

>>14073059
>No meat
Lame

>>14073059
I usually eat something like that everyday, without the onion.

>>14073082
Ploughmans doesn't traditionally include meat, but it's not unusual nowadays to add some cold cuts like ham or beef.

>>14073085
based ploughman

>>14073079
So it's hangover food.

Bread as well not pictured

>>14073095
No, a full fry-up is hangover food.
Ploughman Lunch is an old peasant's lunch

>>14073071
A man who ploughs
You do know what a plough is right

This is unironically my favorite style of eating . I didn’t know there was a name for it

I also like eating cold boiled potatoes with hardboiled eggs and pickles. Which may be a Russian deviation

>>14073104
Could also be a fucker. Like,.. - in "fucking 24/7". A fuckboi. Whatever. I don't speak fish&chips

>>14073111
Somehow I doubt ploughman is synonymous with fuccboi

>>14073111
wtf are you talking about?

>>14073113
>>14073115
Isn't "to plough" also synonymous to "to fuck"?

>>14073124
Yes, but that doesn't mean it transfers to ploughman. And a fuccboi doesn't fuck. A fuccboi is annoying and thirsty.

>>14073071
a fake person invented by British TGI Friday's

>>14073079
That's not a ploughman's

>>14073169
it is, it's just got some extras

>>14073104
ploughed yer mum last nite

>>14073175
Too much extras. I would get that at a pub maybe, but I only eat ploughman's when I can't be fucked cooking or cleaning up anything. Cheese, bread, butter. The only thing you need to clean is a knife and a plate. Adding all these other things. Not what I'm after personally. Personally.

>>14073193
So, it’s a „Brotzeit“?

>>14073196
No it's a ploughmans.

I believe I read somewhere that despite its traditional sounding name the ploughman's lunch was an invention by the British ministry of agriculture somewhere in the 60's to stimulate the sale of agricultural products.
Plowman's lunches are good, but then again what's not to enjoy about cheese, vegetables and bread?

>>14073202
The lunch itself can be traced back a couple hundred years, but the name "Ploughman's Lunch" is indeed a marketing term coined after cheese rations were lifted.

>>14073224
Ooh right interesting, thanks bud

>>14073111
You absolute retard lol. Are you one of those zoomers that doesn't know where milk comes from too?

yeah uhhhhh......can I get a plaughmans with a side of hamburger....and can I substitute the onions for french fries thanks... also extra dippy sauces

Do you think if I open a ploughman restaurant in the US it would do well?

>>14073253
It would basically just be a slightly less Gaelic themed Irish Pub innit

>>14073261
Well I'd standardize it. Big platters with various assortments, good ales and liquors, and hot meals like Shepards Pie and etc, but without the Irish. If a platter of ploughmans meal cost 5.99$, I think you could sell it to the working man to come to lunch everyday. Free beer/drink included, because Murica.

>>14073269
So a more streamlined and bigger version of a pub? I wonder if that could work.

>>14073108
How do you keep the potatos cold while boiling?

>>14073175
A ploughmans isnt just any food you cut up and put on a plate. As far as I know, originally it was just cheese and bread with beer. That photo was a bit too over the top

>>14073202
>>14073224
actually, the ploughman's lunch of bread, cheese and beer was mentioned as early as the 14th century.
stop falling for scumbags who want to erase your culture.

>>14073274
If everything is natural and grown locally I bet it would become an established meeting place for various upstanding clientele. Hire pretty young women and a couple smiling young fit men and you've got yourself 250K$+ net income, give or take 1-2 years to start. Would have to be in the business area.

Or you would make it target the working class, like I previously mentioned. Warm, cheerful, no nonsense corporate bullshit. Give em good taste and tolerance for blue collar atmosphere, with pretty girls and gruff guys, and you've got yourself a good business in a low income, low crime area.

>>14073284
Boil them in cold water

>>14073285
Traditionally it was bread, cheese, onions and beer. But the modern Ploughmans as served in pubs will almost always include some ham, chutney and also probably grapes or apple.

>>14073286
Citation needed
I can only find explicit descriptions dating to the 1800s

>>14073308
Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, old Middle English poem.

>>14073349
That's a 900 line olde englyshe poem give me the exact line

>>14073360
find it yourself, i don't have a pdf or anyting.
also, it's middle english, not old english.
it just mentions the ploughmans lunch of bread, ale, butter and cheese. nothing special.

>>14073360
>do my research for me

>>14073379
So you have no citation. Fuck off.

>>14073384
No you fuck off you thick rude cunt.

>>14073360
"Philosophers and ploughmen each must do their part, to mold a new mentality closer to the heart."

>>14073405
lmao

>>14073405
>"Hey everybody! I'm old as fuck!"

>>14073384
Here you go fuckface.
>inb4 but i can't read middle english
Too fucking bad.

>>14073428
Yeah it basically says it right there

>>14073422
I'm a man! I'm 40!

>>14073059
>no apple
>no pickle
Ouf

>>14073269
>but without the Irish
Unbelievably based. I like Ireland and the Irish in general, but the vast majority Irish pubs outside of pub culture countries are cringe

>>14073428
That's not a ploughman's lunch, he's also describing meat and fish.

>>14073108
Me too, like a continental breakfast for every meal and all types of food.

>>14073501
The Irish are the most pathetic cunning bastards I’ve ever met. I’ve never met greater, spineless cowards when confronted with authority. Their food sucks . I knew a lady who grew up in Northern Ireland during the troubles and she had her first piece of fresh fruit in America .

>>14073507
>describes what the ploughman eats for lunch
>not a ploughmans lunch
huh?

>>14073086
I was just shit posting, looks pretty good tbf

>>14073059
Bread and chedd, a classic.
Nice looking ramekin of silverskins.

>>14073111
Jesus christ anon.

Give me your thoughts on the onion slices on the side. What type of onion and cheese would best make this meal? Do you think these onions are pickled or just raw?

>>14073059
>>14073079
You Brits...sometimes...you're alright.

>>14076211
looks like uncooked white. i personally wouldn't make this choice because raw white can be a little harsh to just eat like that. A sweet vidalia or a pickled red might be nice. for cheeses, you want hard or semi hard rind with a sharp flavor. think cheddar, red leicester

>>14073544
So your point about cultural erasure was just that ploughman ate lunch.

>>14073405
<3 r.i.p.

>>14076402
can i eat blue cheese

>>14073535
Brit bong cope that The first country they colonisé also began a domino effect that broke up their empire

I'm ok with this.

>>14073059
marketing meme created to revive the dairy industry after it got raped by ww2 regulations
consoomers are truly pathetic

>>14073093
>>14073098
So it's basically a deconstructed sandwich?

>>14076526
you certainly can, though the flavor is very powerful. step lightly if you've never eaten straight blue cheese before

>>14073288
Running restaurants is far harder than you make it sound.

>>14073288
>>14076671
restaurant is nightmare entrepreneurship

>>14073124
Only if you're applying it to a person. You wouldn't fuck a field, would you anon?

>>14076526
I don't know, can you?

>>14073059
what is your opinion on picalilli?

>>14076402
a mature cheddar and white onion sandwich is god tier, give it a try.

>>14073535
Haha bullshit. She's telling you porky pies you fat corn syrup filled cunt

>>14078594
it really is. you'd think the raw onion would be too much but it's great. the more vintage cheddar the better too

>>14073111
Reported

>>14076402
The onion is eaten with the cherse which makes it more palatable and tastier

I hate when middle class pooftas pretend they are working class.

>>14073405
A poster after my own heart

>>14073059
> no piccalilli
Fuck off, larper.

>>14076587
shut up

>>14079898
>piccalilli
kys paki nonce

>>14078647

fuck off you smelly serb gypsy
stop stealing my rubbish bins

PHWOAAAAAR!
Luv cheese
luv ham
luv eggs
luv tomarters
luv pikel
luv unyuns
luv lettus
luv appel
luv a pint

simple fookin as, good fookin nosh.

>>14079898
>piccalilli

This is a racism-free board

>>14073059
>brown bread
just because the crust is "brown" doesn't make it "brown bread"
>vintage cheddar
that is hardly 8 months you got on your plate
>pickled onions
the only think yuo got right

>>14080159
>>14080552
> not knowing piccalilli is obligatory with a ploughman’s
Fuck right off.

>>14080442
dangerously based

>>14073111

>>14080576
no it isn't you spastic

Heh, "Plough"man... is that what fuckers eat after they finish fucking?

>>14076528
>The first country they colonisé
Wales? We've still got it, thanks.

>>14076587
Exactly. It was either wrapped in paper from their own trouser pockets, or served up in a pub. The collection of humble, cheap sustenance predates the sandwich by a few hundred years.

For me the point of a Ploughman's isn't just an excuse to make a cheese and onion sandwich. It should be savoured and so each ingredient needs to be eaten separately to get maximum enjoyment.

So when you have a Ploughman's make sure you buy the best wholemeal bread, or make your own to avoid any chemicals and additives that would've been alien to the boys in the fields. Only an organic grassfed cheese will do as that is the only sort the poor ploughman's would've known. Some onion, if you like it. But if you're going to include apple make sure apples are actually in season, Mr Plough wouldn't have had access to them all year round. I would go for Kent's oldest brewer Shepherd Neame and their flagship ale to wash it all down.

>>14080576
i prefer branston pickle

>>14083190
>no gf to spend the day with fucking and eating cheese and onions

>>14073059
its supposed to be cheap but cheese isn't, not here at least.

>>14084691
big american feel

>>14073175
>>14073079
>>14073059
it's just a disassembled sandwich.
proves there were hipsters even hundreds of years ago.

>>14073099
The tomatoes and mushrooms are always the parts of these that I crave the most.
Probably because I already eat nothing but bread and eggs as-is.

>>14073059
well riddle me this then, what's for Ploughman's Brunch?

>>14086152
toil

>>14084887
>Ploughman Lunch is an old peasant's lunch
Ploughman's Lunch didn't exist before the 1950s.

>>14073381
>>14073379
>I haven't actually read my own evidence, I just googled the word "ploughman" in old documents and picked the first result

>>14076450
Pretty much. These guys are obviously retarded.

>>14086670
we've been through

>>14073071
Someone who ploughs men.
A fag.

>>14073071
A man who has no penny, pullets for to buy,
neither geese nor piglets, but two green cheeses,
A few curds and cream and an oaten cake
And two loaves of beans and bran to bake for my little ones.
And besides I say by my soul I have no salt bacon,
Nor no little eggs, by Christ, collops for to make.
But I have parsley and leeks and many cabbages,
And besides a cow and a calf and a cart mare
To draw afield my dung the while the drought lasteth.
And by this livelihood we must live till lammas time.
And by that I hope to have harvest in my croft.
And then may I prepare the dinner as I dearly like.
All the poor people those peascods fatten.
Neans and baked apples they brought in their laps.
Shalots and chervils and ripe cherries many
And proffered pears these present...

>>14086670
Ploughman's Lunch wasn't a specific dish until the dictionaries said so. But it was part of the way of life of my ancestors. The bread, cheese, butter, ale and few humble vegetables that nurtured the nation's labourers. And for that, I shall honour it.

>>14089740
this

I do eat cheddar on buttered bread with pickled onions quite often, I wouldn't really consider that a dish tho, and definitely not lunch
but then again, I'm not a ploughman