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,
Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman () is a Czech national cultural monument (declared as such in 1962). It is composed of the "Royal field" and the "monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman" erected on the Royal field. It is located near the village Stadice, six kilometres southwest of Ústí nad Labem. The Royal field is a historical place on which according to the legend Přemysl, the Ploughman was called to become the ruler of the Czech state. Measurements of the Royal field served in the Middle Ages as