Comment on A succulent meal

• TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Btw, that “ploughman’s lunch” was created in the 1960s by british politicians. It has nothing to do with medieval times, it’s just meant to evoque that vague feeling.

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  • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The branding of ploughman’s lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.

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    • arc99@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The pickle is probably the new aspect. Farm workers have obviously been eating cheese, bread, pasties, cold meats etc. since forever.

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      • dermanus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fermenting veggies has been around a long time too. It might not have been a pickled cucumber, but something pickled wouldn’t be unheard of.

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  • lovely_reader@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for this info. I wouldn’t have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says “the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency” created it in the '50s.

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    • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re right, I misremembered the article. Corrected, thanks!

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• lovely_reader@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that a pickle or some pickle?

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  • arc99@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tangy pickle yes. Branston, piccalilli. Or pickled onions, relish, or somesuch.

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  • LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neither. It’s just pickle.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream

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  • arc99@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, just a pint of beer

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