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,
Let's Do Lunch with Gino & Mel therefore there were no audience options, so Gino cooked set dishes instead. Let's Do Christmas with Gino & Mel was a Christmas spin-off of "Let's Do Lunch", which aired on ITV from 2012 until 2014. The series showed viewers how to cook easy meals during the Christmas period. Much like the regular series, "Let's Do Christmas" was hosted by D'Acampo and Sykes, along with a celebrity guest appearing in each episode. This, unlike the main series was pre-recorded and not broadcast LIVE. There were several changes made to the studio set and format such as Christmas decorations that appear on