Ploughman

'Ploughman's Lunch' is not a traditional meal going back to the dawn of time, but was invented by a marketing executive in 1961 to increase sales of cheese this has long been rumoured, but Victoria Coren unearthed documentary evidence and proved it.

Archive 2006-01-01 Carla 2006

'Ploughman's Lunch' is not a traditional meal going back to the dawn of time, but was invented by a marketing executive in 1961 to increase sales of cheese this has long been rumoured, but Victoria Coren unearthed documentary evidence and proved it.

Balderdash and Piffle: TV review Carla 2006

Brother the "Ploughman" that irresistible pathos which Dickens could find in the simple and the poor?

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

That is from one of those half-Greek, half-English idylls, reminding one of Frederick Walker's "Ploughman," of Mason's "Evening Hymn," in which Mr. Gosse is at his best.

Essays from 'The Guardian' Walter Pater 1866

Was there anything about "Ploughman" that made you hesitant to select it?

Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

I am pleasing myself much with a Ballad to be calld 'the Ploughman,' * in that stile in which I am best calculated to succeed.

Letter 135 2009

(News source.) Marina Ploughman knows what she saw - people can say what they want.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Ploughman could only priest at their naked statesman, as cram against madness doth chaff out the bias participation of it.

Berkeley Stations 2010

Chaucer left a lot of gaps in the Canterbury Tales, and other writers stepped up to fill them, writing tales for the poor Ploughman who never got one in the original, an extra tale for both the Merchant and the Cook, and a whole story about what the Pilgrims did once they got to Canterbury.

Boing Boing 2008

Not, as one might expect, a pint and a Ploughman, it is more likely to be a very expensive meal of gourmet French food washed down with a bottle or three of Yquem or some other expensive vintage wine.

Archive 2009-05-01 Thatsnews 2009