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
Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman a basis of the Czech field pole (). In 1841 count Nostitz erected on the Royal field the monument to Přemysl the Ploughman. The monument was proposed by architect F. Staumann. It is composed of a stone pedestal on the top of which a plough made of cast iron is situated. In the front and the back of the pedestal there are iron reliefs by Josef Max depicting encounter of Přemysl, the Ploughman with the delegation of princess Libuše and his arrival to Vyšehrad. On the left side of the pedestal there is an inscription „"ZDE OD PLUHU PŘEMYSL k