And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream
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arc99@lemmy.world 12 hours agoTry a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
arc99@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nah, just a pint of beer
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
arc99@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Tangy pickle yes. Branston, piccalilli. Or pickled onions, relish, or somesuch.
LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Neither. It’s just pickle.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours 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.
arc99@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The pickle is probably the new aspect. Farm workers have obviously been eating cheese, bread, pasties, cold meats etc. since forever.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You’re right, I misremembered the article. Corrected, thanks!