Today I saw a pub had on the menu
"Reconstructed Ploughmans Lunch"
What was a it?
A cheese and pickle sandwich is what.
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When I used to work on a farm at lunch time we used to park the tractors at the bottom of the field, jump over the fence into The Bird in Hand in Sonning Common for a Ploughman's Lunch.
Huge chunk of bread, huge chunk of cheese, pickled onion and some branston.
No cress, no parsley, and certainly no shredded carrot.
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Just in case anyone might think a ploughman' lunch had anything to do with ploughmen...
Wikipedia says
"...the specific term "ploughman's lunch" is believed to date no further back than the 1950s, when the Cheese Bureau (a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency) began promoting the ploughman's lunch in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed."
"Five-a-day" also is interesting, at least according to some.
"So where did the pick-a-number-a-day all start? It started as the “National five-a-day for better health†program in 1991 as a public-private partnership between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Produce for Better Health Foundation. The programme started in California, the sunshine state, and has become the world’s largest public-private nutrition education initiative."
From this site, where she argues it's all just marketing. I have insufficient knowledge to verify or dispute this.
www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/five-a-day-the-truth/
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It doesn't surprise me in the least, but neither does it detract from how much I used to enjoy them. Usually with a couple of pints as well, never really thought about the impact of that on my tractor driving.
I am sure I remember reading similar tales about how the figures for how many units a week we should drink were also made up. I do hope so, because currently I am about 27 years ahead of schedule.
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>> www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/five-a-day-the-truth/
Pretty much on the nuggets.
The reality was indeed an attempt to switch processed crap to 'real foods'.
Processed meat is awful stuff.
Oily fish is good stuff.
Other meats/veggies are ok stuff.
The most important positive to gain from vegetarianism is increasing the population that can be fed from a given amount of land and water.
Animal husbandry is more debatable (would you rather be a beef cow or a dairy cow? Or never have existed for the vegans?)
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Should vegans "be allowed" to keep carnivorous pets? Buying cans of Beefy Sniffikins is supporting the meat industry, and buying Veg-Dog Plus can't be good for the pooch, surely?
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there is a fad for "raw" dog food, as in "I feed my dog "raw" usually accompanied by a pious look and a lengthy lecture on the evils of "death pellets" (died dog food kibble) and the devils of the dog food industry in general and abattoirs in particular.
I tell them I quite agree, "my dog is fed on Raw I say, every day she kills a squirrel, duckling, coot, if she's lucky the odd chicken"
They usually shut up and disappear quickly at that point.
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My mate feeds his dog on raw stuff, feeds them pretty much anything. When I go shooting he'll have anything pigeons, crows etc.
I don't think it's a fad, he doesn't really go on about it though.
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I know of vegan couple who do protesting, etc. and are very active in animal cruelty protests and such like. They used to have about 4 or 5 cats and they got dried cat food which was meat based... go figure. Their logic is cats need to eat meat and we don't.
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. Their logic is cats
>> need to eat meat and we don't.
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Do they? Genuine question i don't know.
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Yes, they are carnivores. Just like us, we dont just have cows teeth or fully ruminant digestive systems,
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>> My mate feeds his dog on raw stuff, feeds them pretty much anything. When I
>> go shooting he'll have anything pigeons, crows etc.
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>> I don't think it's a fad,
It is when they insist its "raw vegetables" only
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Ah right got you, not heard of that before.
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>> When I used to work on a farm at lunch time we used to park
>> the tractors at the bottom of the field, jump over the fence into The Bird
>> in Hand in Sonning Common for a Ploughman's Lunch.
I think the Bird in Hand at Sonning might have ‘upgraded’ its menu since then ;)
www.birdinhandsonningcommon.com/menus/march2018/INDICATIVE%20LUNCH%20MENU%2003%2018.pdf
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 4 Jul 18 at 02:08
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At the time the landlady was Wendy Walton and she ran it as a country "boozer".
Last time I was there, probably about 15 years ago, it was terribly poncey.
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I used to play Rugby - Union of course, for Nottingham Technical College.
Before home matches we gathered in the Spread Eagle, close to the college, getting prepared for the game with a couple of cheese and raw onion baps, washed down with draught Bass.
As a forward, playing second row, I can tell you that the scrums were, shall we say, interestingly perfumed!
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fancy food - No FM2R
