True enough, I often fancy some crusty bread and cheese for lunch when l'm at home, add a dollop of Branston and a pickled onion or two, and Bob's your auntie.
Well, stale bread and cheese is the Home Counties version of stale bread and tripe, is it not? Just good old plain food to last you through to supper time.
Oh dear, 'supper' what a frightfully Home Counties term. :lol:
Well it's certainly true that many 'plough men' and agricultural workers used to eat bread and cheese for lunch, whilst out in the fields in times of yore.
But I agree that many modern day ploughman's lunches served up in pubs, are far fancier than that.
Great pub, lovely food, beautiful views, but not the location of my choice to devour a ploughman's. I think I would prefer to be gazing at open countryside from the garden, than the River Arun.