Ploughman's lunch many pubs served little else: in 1932 Martin Armstrong described stopping at village inns for a lunch of bread, cheese and beer, noting that "On these occasions in country inns when bread, cheese and beer seem so extraordinarily good, the alternative is generally nothing; and compared with nothing bread, cheese, and beer are beyond compare". By the 1950s the meal was certainly being referred to by forms of the name later used to promote it. In 1956, author Adrian Bell reported: "There's a pub quite close to where I live where ... all you need say is, 'Ploughboy's Lunch, Harry,
Mary Jackson (Richmond Bread Riot) a sense of legitimacy, but also to make clear that they held the state government as responsible for their condition as they did the merchants. Accounts vary on what happened next. According to one version, Jackson and the other women barged into Letcher’s office and encountered an aide, Colonel S. Bassett French, who asked what they wanted. They reportedly responded that they "wanted bread, and bread they would have or die." French denied their requests. Other accounts report that Letcher did, in fact, meet with the women outside his mansion at the Washington monument. In either case, Jackson and her