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
Somalis alcohol is not served, nothing that died on its own is eaten, and no blood is incorporated. Breakfast ("quraac") is an important meal for Somalis, some drink tea ("shahie or shaah)" others coffee ("qaxwa or bun"). The tea is often in the form of "haleeb shai" (Yemeni milk tea) in the north. The main dish is typically a pancake-like bread ("canjeero" or "canjeelo") similar to Ethiopian injera, but smaller and thinner, or "muufo" a Somali flat bread traditionally baked on a clay oven. These breads might also be eaten with a stew ("maraqe") or soup at lunch or dinner. "Qado"