Ploughman's lunch 29 April 1958 refer to a ploughman's lunch consisting of bread, cheese and pickle. The meal's rise in popularity during the 1970s has been argued to be at least partially based on a British cultural "revulsion from technology and modernity and a renewed love-affair with an idealised national past". The meal was, however, primarily favoured by caterers because it was simple to prepare, required no cooking, was not labour-intensive and involved no meat, meaning there was the potential of high profit margins. The 1983 film "The Ploughman's Lunch", from a screenplay by Ian McEwan, has a subtext that is "the
Light Lunch Light Lunch Light Lunch (later Late Lunch) was a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast on weekdays at 12:30 between 24 March 1997 and 27 February 1998 and then move to weeknights at 6:00 PM between 31 March 1998 and 5 March 1999. It was hosted by Mel and Sue. The show was a huge success initially but audience figures declined slowly eventually resulting in low viewer figures and was deemed "unsatisfactory" by Channel 4. The show was structured around the making and eating of a luncheon. The main part of the meal would be prepared by a guest chef,