Just interested and may utilise any particularly spiffing ideas.

DS

3+ doorstop slices of fresh bread (not a brake brothers fancy nuts bake in the oven mini baguette), butter (not marg), 1/4lb of mature cheddar or stilton (not a few slices of limp-dick plastic cheese), maybe a chunk of ham (not a slice of anaemic, flaccid, lardy, water-injected, tripe-like, caterer's ham) , a big dollop of homemade chutney (not a dinky mini lil'white pot of tart and bland branston-a-like). Nothing else and certainly no bloody salad.

As Stoner's comments above, but add an apple if possible.

What stoner said, minus the chutney – might as well just smear everything in marmite or dog excrement once that stuff's on the plate 🙂
Obviously beer is an essential ingredient, but I'm assuming that's a given.

Obviously beer is an essential ingredient, but I'm assuming that's a given.

Only if it's a proper harvest beer. Weak as anything, but still delicious!

youve been eating the wrong kind of chutney's Ian – I have some 4 yr old green tomato (and some green bean) maturing in the wine cellar 😉

Chilli jam is nice with some mature cheese and real bread and buttter

Ladybower Inn do a scrummy one, great for a stop off half way round a ride

Tracey

big lump of unpasteurized cheddar, a slightly smaller lump of colston basett stilton, some very fresh watercress, half a pink fleshed apple, half a traditional cottage loaf, two home made chutneys and just to really scupper the purists, some caper berries.

Mr Nutt minus the caper berries, plus stoner's ham and some pickled onions

Anything that a travelling salesman would have eaten in the 1970's. The plowman's lunch was invented by a bloke form the milk marketing board as a no-cook meal to be served to Cortina Man by pubs that don't have kitchens.

Don't forget the hand made pork pie with good layer of jelly.

oh maybe there's room for some pork terrine topped with butter fried lardons?

MrNutt they never serve such food in Swindonshire, surely?

The plowman's lunch was invented by a bloke form the milk marketing board as a no-cook meal

They have a lot to answer for

For me its about having perfect ratios in the ploughmans, (as well as some good food) No point having a huge hunk of cheese if there isn't enough bread to use half of it, and the chutney has to be in ample supply too.

Apple: Yes
Chutney: Yes
Pickled Onion: Yes
Cheese: Yes
Bread: Yes
and a bit of salad too.

Anything else is just poncy!

not in swindumpshire but just a little way outside I know a few special places 🙂

Apple: Yes
Chutney: Yes
Pickled Onion: Yes
Cheese: Yes
Bread: Yes
and a bit of salad too.

Thats the iDave diet isn't it? 🙂

shall we start an argument about whether a pickled onion is strictly speak a fruit or not?

shall we start an argument about whether a pickled onion is strictly speak a fruit or no

Im sure it's one of your five a day. So is marmalade.

I like to incorporate a nice slice of pork pie into a ploughman's.

I realise this is probably against God and nature, but that's how I like it.

Celery.

Stop it immediately CG. How's things?

PPppppppp pork pie?

The plowman's lunch was invented by a bloke form the milk marketing board as a no-cook meal

<= this is true.

historically, a west country ploughman's lunch was several pints of scrumpy.

cinnamon_girl – Member
Celery

Yuck thats horrible that is..you've just ruined a good poughmans.

Strong Cheddar cheese
Thick Crusty Bread
Sweet pickled onions
other mixed pickles
Shropshire blue
Boiled ham
Tomato

Washed down with a good real ale!

Penrod Pooch – Member
PPppppppp pork pie?

Yeah.

Maybe half a pasty and some smoky bacon Mini Cheddars too if I'm feeling decadent.

Compulsory:

Bread
Butter
Chedder
Stilton
Chutney
Pickled onions
Apple
Cider or perry, not beer you morons!

Optional extras:
Ham
Mustard (but only if you include the ham)
Tomatos
Coleslaw if one is out of chutney

🙂

Posh picnic there BigDummy. 😀

Jolly nice it was too. Even the malevolent looking cheese. 😉

whould you two celery lovers bugger off. This is a man's food thread.

One thing missing though – serviette.

shall we start an argument about whether a pickled onion is strictly speak a fruit or no
Im sure it's one of your five a day. So is marmalade.

This got me thinking,

Chocolate
Wine

surely 1 of the 5 a day?

And a few slices of beetroot staining everything (including the celery) red too!

The plowman's lunch was invented by a bloke form the milk marketing board as a no-cook meal

<= this is true.
Ooh, bit of a mystery according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman%27s_lunch

Some of the ones I've seen and tried in pubs are appalling – it seems that a soft white roll (bap) is acceptable these days. Salad is wrong – just a way to fill up your plate without using anything of value, IMHO