• Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day 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
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      The pickle is probably the new aspect. Farm workers have obviously been eating cheese, bread, pasties, cold meats etc. since forever.

      • dermanus@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        Fermenting veggies has been around a long time too. It might not have been a pickled cucumber, but something pickled wouldn’t be unheard of.