AIBU to think this was NOT a ploughmans lunch?

[Yellowbird54321]

I was chatting to my sister on the phone yesterday when she mentioned she had made her kids a ploughman's lunch and they had really enjoyed it.

One of her kids is a bit of a fussy eater so I asked if he had eaten all of it, including the apple; this is when she admitted there was no apple in the ploughman's!

When I asked what was in it she listed: cheese, ham, lettuce, coleslaw, bread and pickle. No meat knocker!!!

AIBU to think a ploughman's lunch without apple and meat knocker is not actually a ploughman's lunch at all?

There's no ham (naice or otherwise) in a ploughmans'

Though we call it a Ploughpersons' here, 'cos we're stupid PC.

Meat knockers are pork pies.

YABVU...naice ham is a perfectly acceptable alternative to a knocker!

Oh I needed a giggle.

Pray tell, yellowbird what is this meat knocker thing you speak of?

I've never heard a pork pie called a meat knocker and I live near the home of pork pies.

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amazing! Meat knocker. I love that that is what I learnt today. A meat knocker is another name for a pork pie. Fab!

Sorry x posted, so a knocker is a pork pie.

Which part of the world do you live?

Anyway a ploughmans is Cheese, pickle, bit of salad and a crusty cob.

No apple or anything else.

Just googled meat knocker. No mention of pork pies....

What's the etymology of 'knocker'?

Resembling a door knocker? A boob? Or does 'knocker' indicate 'surprise extra' (why?).

No such thing as a "real" ploughman's. it was a ploy by the Milk Marketing Board in the 1960s to increase the sale of cheese.

You need the apple in there or its just a deconstructed cheese n pickle sandwich.

We call an array of vegetables, cheese, and bread Ploughman's, because what else do you call it? It's basically an unassembled sandwich, but that isn't really a nice thing to call it, so we just call it Ploughman's.

Northern here and never heard of a meat knocker . Pork pie is sometimes called a Growler here though.
I want a Ploughmans/persons now

Deluxe version?! Good grief! How pampered

Northern here too and like mine with a long egg in it.

Pork pie, that is.

Though a beef pie is nicer.

I'm from as far North as you can get without being Scottish and have lived in London, Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall. I've never heard of a Meat Knocker.

You don't have a pork pie with ploughmans usually do you?

like this, but a tomato.

the www seems to be bereft of vandyke tomatoes. Who knew you would do that to a lemon or an egg?

I was born about 25 miles from Melton Mowbray (where pork pies are born) and I've never heard of Meat Knocker.

"Growler" = fanjo in essex

What's a long egg?

I think if you have the deluxe version you can have some pork pie and some fancy lettuce.

OP - which part of the world calls a pork pie a meat knocker?

And a ploughman's is a huge hunk of cheese, crusty bread, pickled onion, branston pickle & salad. No apple and no pork pie. Although I have seen ploughmans with a pork pie on a menu.

This thread has killed me at work. A meat knocker. I've never heard that before.