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ploughman's lunch

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1. ploughman's lunchnoun

   a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad

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1. Ploughman's lunch

   A ploughman's lunch is an English cold meal based around bread, cheese, and fresh or pickled onions. Additional items can be added such as ham, green salad, hard boiled eggs, and apple, and usual accompaniments are butter and "pickle", which in Britain denotes a chutney-like condiment. As its name suggests, it is most commonly eaten at lunchtime. It is particularly associated with pubs, and often served with beer.Beer, bread, and cheese have been combined in the English diet since antiquity, and have been served together in inns for centuries. However, the specific term "ploughman's lunch" is believed to date from the 1950s, when the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body, began promoting it in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed. Its popularity increased as the Milk Marketing Board promoted the meal nationally throughout the 1960s.

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1. ploughman's lunch

   A ploughman's lunch is a traditional British dish consisting mainly of cold, simple, and easy-to-carry food. It typically includes cheese, cold cuts of meat or a piece of cooked meat, raw or pickled onions, a pickled gherkin, apple or other fruit, bread, and butter. It may also include boiled eggs, radishes, or other vegetables, and is often served with beer or cider. The dish is called a ploughman's lunch because it is similar to what a ploughman (farmer) might have taken to the fields for his midday meal.

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1. Ploughman's lunch

   A ploughman's lunch is a cold meal originating in the United Kingdom, commonly served in pubs. Its core components are cheese, chutney and bread. The dish can also include such items as boiled eggs, ham and pickled onions, and is traditionally accompanied with a drink of beer. As its name suggests, it is more commonly consumed as a midday snack. Although beer, bread and cheese have been paired in the English diet since antiquity, the etymology of the term "ploughman's lunch" with regards to a specific meal have been cause for much debate. The name evokes a historic provenance, but the phrase is believed to date no further back than the 1950s, when the Cheese Bureau began promoting the meal in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed. Its popularity increased as the Milk Marketing Board promoted the meal nationally throughout the 1960s. Its rise during the 1970s was at least partially based on a British cultural "revulsion from technology and modernity and a renewed love-affair with an idealised national past". The dish is popular in the United Kingdom, and was nominated as a cultural icon of England, in a similar vein to such dishes as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and fish and chips.

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   The numerical value of ploughman's lunch in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of ploughman's lunch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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