Best ever Ploughman's Lunch

hardpressed

My father had been a ploughman, his lunch would have been a cheese sandwich and a raw onion.

JIL

I loved ploughmans lunches and bring back happy memories of being pregnant with my middle child and my oh worked late afternoons. We would go out at lunchtime to a pub once a week where I would have a ploughman's. Loved the pickled onions, salad cheese crusty bread and chutney.
They have never been the same.
Had one when on holiday a few weeks ago and it was bread, cheese, salad, curried chutney, ham and a hard boiled egg.

Gigervamp

I know what I'm going to have for lunch today!

moneyistooshorttomention

If someone says "ploughmans lunch", I expect:

cheddar cheese
an apple
pickled onions
crusty bread (and butter)
chutney
some salad (lettuce/tomato/etc)

If it's any different to that, then I would think the menu would specify what alterations there were.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Mature cheddar
Pork pie
Apple
Cherry toms
Crackers

And five pints of Uley Old Spot.

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Need_A_Map

Now, see here - as someone whose ploughed an allotment (well dug over), I can speak with some authority on this matter - the best lunch I ever had was:

Lump of cheese
Lump of onion
Lump of apple
Handful grapes
Slice of ham
Crusty end off a frenchstick

And some slightly elderly apple juice (well, mostly apples )

skogar

My essentials for a ploughman's are....

Cheese - doesn't have to be cheddar but should be British. I love cheese!
If there is no pickled onion it is not a ploughman's lunch. These should be ideally homemade and strong enough to make your eyes water when you eat them.
There must be pickle or chutney, bread and apple.

This is served with whatever salad we can find in the house (in cases of extreme emergency / lack of planning there may be no salad). However a pint of homebrew can generally be found to accompany this feast. :beer:

These are the essentials however a piece of pork pie takes it to another dimension.

It's ploughman's for tea tonight and due to having been shopping today (big treat we have been to the farmers market - a rare event) we have real local cheese and a proper pork pie and we even have salad in the fridge. The homebrew is chilling as I type. Yum yum. :j

jlhmd666

I've had pickled onions on my Ploughmans before but had none in yesterday. Interesting to read how others have theirs

Feral_Moon

My idea of a good Ploughman's lunch is crusty bread, butter, a chunk of cheddar cheese, sliced apple, a large pickled onion and either chutney or Branston pickle. All washed down with a pint of real ale :drool:

Definitely no salad or veggies, nor meat of any description :eek:



PS Just asked hubby and he says he prefers cheese, crackers, apple, grapes, celery and pickle/chutney.

Floozie

We had the in-laws staying last week and as it was so hot and did not fancy anything hot to eat so I did what I would loosely call a vegetarian ploughmans lunch.
It consisted of some onion bread bought from a supermarket, oatcakes and savoury biscuits, butter, apples, celery, tomatoes, crisps, brie cheese, mature cheddar cheese and a Lancashire cheese, onion chutney and tomato chutney. The selection was served with a glass of ice cold cider.
Considering the in-laws do not eat much they went back for seconds so they must have enjoyed it.