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,
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