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
Potato bread cuisine of Hungary. Pratie oaten uses a fine oatmeal instead of flour for more texture. Apple potato bread is a specialty of Armagh, Northern Ireland which is famous for growing apples. It is a potato bread wrapped, pastry-like, around a sweet filling of apples. Potato farls are one large round divided into four quadrants or square slices (usually around 0.5–1 cm in thickness) of soft potato bread, lightly powdered with flour and are common in Ulster, especially Northern Ireland. Known locally as fadge (potato cake), they are traditionally used as one of the distinguishing items of food in an Ulster