Ploughman's lunch a character comment that "A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus". The "Oxford English Dictionary" notes the first recorded use of the phrase "ploughman's lunch" as 1837, from the book "Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott" by John G. Lockhart, but this stray early use may have meant merely the sum of its parts, "a lunch for a ploughman". While farm labourers usually carried their food with them to eat in the fields, similar food was for a long time
Bost's Bread cake lines were transferred to other plants within the company. In the early 90's the formulas or recipes, intellectual property, as well as some hardware of Bost's Bread were sold to Waldensian Bakeries, owned by the Rostan family, longtime bakers of rival Sunbeam Bread. That company was sold in 1995 to the Flowers Baking Company which sold Bost's Bread alongside its products for a few years before phasing out the brand around the year 2000. Bost's Bread Bost's Bread was a brand of baked bread distributed in the Western Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee. Bakers in the eastern parts of the