Ploughman's lunch please'. And in a matter of minutes a tray is handed across the counter to you on which is a good square hunk of bread, a lump of butter and a wedge of cheese, and pickled onions, along with your pint of beer". Only one year later, in June 1957, another edition of the "Monthly Bulletin" of the Brewers' Society, referred to a ploughman's lunch using exactly that name, and said that it consisted of "cottage bread, cheese, lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, cold sausages and, of course, beer". The Glasgow newspaper "The Bulletin" from 15 April 1958 and "The Times" from
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