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
Lunch history as food tastes, menu items and meal periods have changed greatly over time. For example, the word "supper" means bread and soup (from the German word "sop"- soup or stew over bread). In general, during the Middle Ages the main meal for almost everyone took place late in the morning, after several hours of work, when there was no need for artificial lighting. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this meal, called dinner, was gradually pushed back into the evening, creating a greater time gap between breakfast and dinner. A meal called "lunch" came to fill the gap. A