A light meal of cheese, pickled onions (or pickle), and a bread roll; especially one served in a pub at lunchtime. Originally devised by a marketing executive of the Dairy Council in a 1960-61 advertising campaign to sell English cheese and beer
A ploughman's lunch or a ploughman's is a meal consisting of bread, cheese, salad, and pickle, usually eaten in a pub. a simple meal that people eat especially in pubs, consisting of bread, cheese, salad and pickle
A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen. ploughmen a man whose job was to guide a plough that was being pulled by a horse