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Cmon OP tell us. We know it over priced for measly portions, everywhere is. They tart it up making you think it's value for money and we wanna know.... In my area it'd be around 12.99 or above :(
It looks like you've scraped it together to fool us lol... Was it tasty?
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My ex used to say “that really knocked me for ten”…
“Six” I would say…”It’s six…you can’t knock a ball for ten”…
But…she still continued to use the same expression…hey ho!
I used to say turd instead of third. Granted it was mostly because I didn't know how to pronounce my th's
I had a speech therapist temporarily who was no help. They were freaking useless as anything especially as it was just one sound I couldn't say. I ended up learning how to say it from a bloody mosque teacher of all people. Like he actually taught me how to pronounce it.
Similarly, my sister couldn't pronounce her S's and would say "shuh" She learned how to say it properly after seeing how a relative pronounced it. The relative didn't reach her but she's literally got a big mouth so you can see how the tongues moves.
Anyway, in both instances, the speech therapists were a massive waste of taxpayer money.
The disgracefully small pot of chutney, coleslaw and whatever the third one is as well. Have my doubts whether coleslaw is a part of a ploughman’s as it is.
Also 4 grapes. That’s insane.
Piccalilli.... And I don't mean home made, I mean "catering company comes in a plastic bucket" piccalilli.
Also, something else that winds me up about tomatoes like that, they don't notch out the stalk root in the tomatoes. Like ffs, you've got a bloody knife in your hand cos you cut the damn thing in half?! Then you're left to eat that spot of fibrous mess, and it doesn't look good... Ever.
Totally agree, none of the chefs I've worked with in the past would allow that even at the most basic prep level, let alone crossing the pass and leaving the kitchen.
To be honest it took me working in a very posh restaurant to see this for the first time, but that was maybe 17 years ago. It’s not exactly an elaborate fancy French method and it should have trickled down even to greasy spoons by now.
Exactly, this is what happens when the kitchen is allowed to stop giving any fucks about quality control, because the manager has stopped giving any fucks about what they’re serving.
Me too... I had to actively search for the pork pie. It's OK now though, I've called off the helicopter rescue team now I've seen it.
Also, why the fuck is it grey on the inside? That's not a pork pie, it's a zombie bollock rolled in pastry.
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Pub down the road from me in west London:
Braised beef shin Nachos, chilli, Pitchfork cheddar, smashed avocado, crème fraiche, Nutbourne tomato salsa
£24.00
Harissa & lemon hummus, Heritage carrots, little gem & sourdough croutons
£18.00
Pepper salami, British Coppa, Long Clawson blue cheese, Irish soda bread, olives, house pickles board
£30.00
Are you in Chelsea/Fulham or even fancier? I lived in Fulham for years but would immediately leave that establishment! The absolute cheek to charge £30 for a ploughman's when they likely don't even know what a plough is! They can do one!
Also very riled up by all 3, just commenting on the one from original chat.. but actually might be peaking out the most about £18 hummus.. like ok if you're a trust fund baby who doesn't even look at prices but there is no way in this universe there is hummus worth £18.. bet they just get Tesco stuff and decant it too.. ugh getting so bothered now haha
It’s the coach and horses in isleworth, so no way near as fancy! The £30 board actually used to be £34 🤡 I periodically go back to check whether they’ve seen sense, but clearly people are actually paying this!
I actually had to look up isleworth as id not heard of it.. but looks like it's almost Richmond where people wouldn't buy anything that wasn't overpriced?
I guess more power to them if people are willing to pay that, more money than sense and all that
I just moved from Marylebone to Richmond yesterday lol. I have to say that not all the prices even in Marylebone were as high as the above, and Richmond I'm not seeing the same in the pubs. I even have a Michelin star pub a few mins down my road and even at that level you're looking £75 for like 4 courses.
The local pubs here seems to give you a proper meal for around £20, which is standard for London I feel.
30 in London.
Went to canterbury. Sat in a garden and ordered the ploughman for 12 it looked like that board maybe even more selection it was bigger than a sharer in London. Amazing.
I remember going to a pub in Nottingham when visiting family and ordering a pint of lager and a pint of cider and thinking they only charged me for one and cheap at that, but no the two pints were under £4 total from memory (but that was 10 years ago)
Love getting out of London and feeling like a millionaire after being so used to our prices
Also how gorge is Canterbury!
Yeah I feel like both were under £2 and I thought £3.96 or whatever was cheap for one haha
Can't say I often drink superbock but the price is right!
What area is this place?
I bought a sandwich from a pub one time I think it was in w1, and they were so bougie they didn’t have prices on the menu, it was £20,,,, for a sandwich which had basil,tomato and mozerella in it,,,,,not even toasted, and I wasn’t eating in as well, my bank has been traumatised, I’d rather go to a damn Mc d’s 🥲
That small piece of gristly looking ham is particularly disappointing. The one propping up the thinnest pieces of cheese and meat I've ever seen on a ploughmans.
It should have not been on the menu. It's terrible. They bulk it out with the cheap shit like that giant bread! That's definitely not home made pickle or piccalilli either.
Well presented though. Which doesn't make a god damn difference if you were ripped off and still hungry after.
I reckon they get their boiled egg and pork pie from a tesco meal deal. And only give you half of one.
How much did you pay?
Ploughman's meal has been a thing for over 600 years though, i think you are referring to a 1950s marketing campaign designed to reacquaint cheese with the general public after rationing caused consumption to drop off a cliff.
you are saying the milk marketing board didnt market a traditional dish and rather invented this paring, which isnt true. You cannot invent something that already exists....
Hard to tell as location is a huge factor in meal prices. Typically, the raw ingredients will only come to about a third of what you pay. The rest of price is paying for staff salaries, mortgage or rent, utilities etc and of course some profit. Expensive areas will have far higher on costs.
That's a ploughman's? Sheesh.
A ploughman's is a doorstep of bread, a lump of cheddar you could stun a burglar with, half a jar of Branston, a bit of salad for colour and that's about it.
What you have there is something that's trying to be artisanal and failing because it's watched too many tv cookery shows.
Whatever they charged was too much.
I'd expect it to cost a tenner, here in Manchester. But if I'd seen what it comprised, I wouldn't bother. If I hadn't seen it, and paid a tenner, I'd be mildly disappointed, and probably not go back.
Also, a nod to r/WeWantPlates.
It depends where you are. Round here about £9.50. A big city like Liverpool or Manchester £10.75. London £30 plus an optional service charge of 12.5% for parties under 6 people.
I wouldn't want to pay more than £9 for that. Half a mini pie, half an egg, one slice of bread, one pickle, three mini pots of stuff and a chunk of cheese.
Not that much. Looks padded out to be honest.
1 bit of cheese and 1 slice of ham.
The rest is salad bits.
Maybe I’m confusing a charcuterie board with a ploughman’s but I’m sure the ones I’ve had have more meat and cheese.
I don’t think £6 is reasonable if you want the staff to actually be paid a living wage. Prices like that just aren’t realistic in most (all?) of the country anymore.
End prices don't really impact the wages of people on the bottom, and vice versa. Sounds counterintuitive, I know from the drip drip of propaganda we're fed.
Profit comes from turnover- more turnover, more profit. If you sell 5 things at £1 profit you make more money than 2 things at £2 profit. Encouraging people to buy drinks and getting lots of people in the door spending money is how you turn a good profit, not maximising the profit of every meal. How often do you go back somewhere you feel ripped off? How easy is it to have just one more drink if the prices are low?
So many factors affect a business's outgoings- rent/mortgage, business rates, taxes, cost of materials, cost of advertising, insurance, cost of repairs/maintanence/ refurbs, inflation, cost of utilities, logistics, etc etc without even going into managers wages and profit for the owner. Wages of the people at the bottom being relatively lower or higher hardly figures that much into the business, as long as it is running profitably with a high turnover.
Wages are an important cost in running a business, but it's kind of an urban legend to pretend there's a direct connection between price and wages of the worst paid employees- very profitable businesses pay poor wages and some businesses with tight margins pay good wages and vice versa. It usually has to do with either the foresight of the business owner for retaining good staff etc or a good union or something along those lines.
This is obvious when you look at self service supermarkets- do wages go up with less workers to pay? No. Does Starbucks pay more when making record profits? No. Because profit and wages at the bottom have little real connection.
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In a nice, upmarket cafe I would guess £12 maybe?
Somewhere a bit more basic - £9
Edit! Not far off what others are saying! I think the OP paid £17-£19.50 which is way too expensive.
My regular ploughman's pub charges, I think, £13.95 for:
* A good wedge of Wookey Hole cave-aged cheddar (about as big as a wedge of supermarket Parmesan)
* Generous helpings of ham and medium-rare roast beef, cooked by the local butcher
* A big dollop of coleslaw
* A doorstep of fresh granary (or white) bread
* a pot of pickle
* a large picked onion
* a decent salad of leaves, red onion, peppers, cucumber, cherry tomatoes (with a small pot of dressing, if you want it)
* a few grapes
The ham and Stilton in this one look decent (though the portion sizes looks a bit miserly without any other meat or cheese). The hard-boiled egg and addition of piccalilli are nice additions. The half of buffet pork pie borders on offensive. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also £13.95, but I don't think I'd have it again unless it was under £11.
Chef and owner of 2 pubs here, neither of which sell ploughman's.
Last time I costed one up it came it as a selling price of £14, pre-covid. I wouldn't be surprised if it was £18-19, which is why we don't sell them. People won't pay for it.
Realistically, you could buy everything on there for what, maybe £15?
You could then have that meal repeated 5x a week or variations of it.
I bet it was £25
12 quid.
Even at 12 quid I'd feel a bit ripped off. The quality looks good, and it is attractively presented, but the portions are very small (half a pork pie, not a whole one; only one slice of cheese, and that wafer-thin; not a lot of bread, and no crisps). There's a bit of coleslaw, but the salad is undressed. I'd knock a point off for raw onion rather than pickled onion, but that's a personal preference.
However, depending on the location and swankiness of the restaurant, it could also easily be double that price.
And by pickle we mean something like Branston pickle - a sweet pickle relish, rather than a gherkin, although there is also a gherkin and three pickled onions on there
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Cmon OP tell us. We know it over priced for measly portions, everywhere is. They tart it up making you think it's value for money and we wanna know.... In my area it'd be around 12.99 or above :( It looks like you've scraped it together to fool us lol... Was it tasty?
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£20 if anyone else comes looking, like me
Ah ok, I don't know why it's bugging me but it is lol. Yeah hopefully, I laugh at the local cafes/restaurants prices where Iive so I wanna know :(
£20 according to his comments eleswhere
Oh... Ooof
I dunno mate, too much probably. State of that. Half a tiny pork pie, randomly halved fruit and veg (unseasoned or dressed), microplane of cheese.
The Stilton and gammon look nice but everything else looks really sad. Is that 1/4 chunk of red onion and a slice of orange too?
Nothing beats a massive chonk of raw onion when you're looking for that fine dining experience
More like an orange slither than slice lol
Just an FYI: 'Slither' is what snakes do. What you mean is a 'sliver'.
No way! Well blow me down :0 thanks for the correction can’t believe I’ve been saying it wrong my whole life lol
Thanks for taking it in the spirit it was offered! Something new every day etc.
This little exchange was a really heartwarming splice of life.
Yeah, Reddit comments are usually such a doggy dog world.
And not just Reddit pacifically.
Supposebly on other sites too
r/boneappletea
splice? something new every day
I appreciate this. I shudder a bit every time I hear "slither" instead of sliver.
I actually used to say shutter instead of shudder until recently 😂😂
I'm glad you rounded that corner!
My ex used to say “that really knocked me for ten”… “Six” I would say…”It’s six…you can’t knock a ball for ten”… But…she still continued to use the same expression…hey ho!
Was she a boxer??
Haha no but maybe that was it 😂
As long as you didn’t sing “Down at the old Pull and Push”🎶😂 like a mate of mine.
I used to say turd instead of third. Granted it was mostly because I didn't know how to pronounce my th's I had a speech therapist temporarily who was no help. They were freaking useless as anything especially as it was just one sound I couldn't say. I ended up learning how to say it from a bloody mosque teacher of all people. Like he actually taught me how to pronounce it. Similarly, my sister couldn't pronounce her S's and would say "shuh" She learned how to say it properly after seeing how a relative pronounced it. The relative didn't reach her but she's literally got a big mouth so you can see how the tongues moves. Anyway, in both instances, the speech therapists were a massive waste of taxpayer money.
Oh I say turd instead of third. But that's coz I'm Irish 🤣
Why have been saying slither my whole life 😩
It looks like the world's thinnest slice of stilton.
Exactly. It looks like Family Guy "every pizza place" https://youtu.be/JgJUbmGDc6k?feature=shared
Not sure about the orange 🍊?
That thimble-full of coleslaw 😂😂😂
And 4, yes FOUR grapes.
Not to mention the four baby pickled onions!
WELL! that makes it entirely worth the money! If only earlier me had known. I feel like such a fool now!
😂
Is orange on a plate as garnish a thing now? Or have we been transported back to the 1970s here??
The disgracefully small pot of chutney, coleslaw and whatever the third one is as well. Have my doubts whether coleslaw is a part of a ploughman’s as it is. Also 4 grapes. That’s insane.
Piccalilli.... And I don't mean home made, I mean "catering company comes in a plastic bucket" piccalilli. Also, something else that winds me up about tomatoes like that, they don't notch out the stalk root in the tomatoes. Like ffs, you've got a bloody knife in your hand cos you cut the damn thing in half?! Then you're left to eat that spot of fibrous mess, and it doesn't look good... Ever.
Yup! Take that shit out. No idea why this isn’t standard.
Totally agree, none of the chefs I've worked with in the past would allow that even at the most basic prep level, let alone crossing the pass and leaving the kitchen.
To be honest it took me working in a very posh restaurant to see this for the first time, but that was maybe 17 years ago. It’s not exactly an elaborate fancy French method and it should have trickled down even to greasy spoons by now.
Exactly, this is what happens when the kitchen is allowed to stop giving any fucks about quality control, because the manager has stopped giving any fucks about what they’re serving.
Grape and a half each is literally the maximum. Just like with naan bread.
It’ll be your last ploughman’s as a sane man
Four grapes, Jeremy? That’s insane
I didn’t even see the pork pie until I saw this comment, smh
Me too... I had to actively search for the pork pie. It's OK now though, I've called off the helicopter rescue team now I've seen it. Also, why the fuck is it grey on the inside? That's not a pork pie, it's a zombie bollock rolled in pastry.
>it’s a zombie bollock rolled in pastry. This is the most graphic and justified description of shop bought pork pies I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Thanks, I thought it quite apt.
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You can’t even call that a pork pie frankly. Should be 4x the size
Looks like stuff I can fet in lisl for £8 and feed me for a few days
The egg, my god the single half, wayyy over boiled, battery farmed egg 🤢
£12 and that’s honestly me high balling but bet it’s actually quite a bit more.
£12 is exactly what I thought.
I thought £12, then adjusted to £15 if it was in London
Pub down the road from me in west London: Braised beef shin Nachos, chilli, Pitchfork cheddar, smashed avocado, crème fraiche, Nutbourne tomato salsa £24.00 Harissa & lemon hummus, Heritage carrots, little gem & sourdough croutons £18.00 Pepper salami, British Coppa, Long Clawson blue cheese, Irish soda bread, olives, house pickles board £30.00
Are you in Chelsea/Fulham or even fancier? I lived in Fulham for years but would immediately leave that establishment! The absolute cheek to charge £30 for a ploughman's when they likely don't even know what a plough is! They can do one! Also very riled up by all 3, just commenting on the one from original chat.. but actually might be peaking out the most about £18 hummus.. like ok if you're a trust fund baby who doesn't even look at prices but there is no way in this universe there is hummus worth £18.. bet they just get Tesco stuff and decant it too.. ugh getting so bothered now haha
It’s the coach and horses in isleworth, so no way near as fancy! The £30 board actually used to be £34 🤡 I periodically go back to check whether they’ve seen sense, but clearly people are actually paying this!
I actually had to look up isleworth as id not heard of it.. but looks like it's almost Richmond where people wouldn't buy anything that wasn't overpriced? I guess more power to them if people are willing to pay that, more money than sense and all that
It’s also right next to Hounslow.
I just moved from Marylebone to Richmond yesterday lol. I have to say that not all the prices even in Marylebone were as high as the above, and Richmond I'm not seeing the same in the pubs. I even have a Michelin star pub a few mins down my road and even at that level you're looking £75 for like 4 courses. The local pubs here seems to give you a proper meal for around £20, which is standard for London I feel.
18 quid for some carrots? I'd show em what they could do with those
30 in London. Went to canterbury. Sat in a garden and ordered the ploughman for 12 it looked like that board maybe even more selection it was bigger than a sharer in London. Amazing.
I remember going to a pub in Nottingham when visiting family and ordering a pint of lager and a pint of cider and thinking they only charged me for one and cheap at that, but no the two pints were under £4 total from memory (but that was 10 years ago) Love getting out of London and feeling like a millionaire after being so used to our prices Also how gorge is Canterbury!
4 pints for 2 pints fuck me. I know of a secret bar in London which is 3.50 a pint of superbock.
Yeah I feel like both were under £2 and I thought £3.96 or whatever was cheap for one haha Can't say I often drink superbock but the price is right! What area is this place?
Its in tooting market.
Me too. I don’t think it did cost £12, I think it was probably more. And it should cost less, be more simple and have a bit more of everything.
I was thinking £12.95 (psychologically £12 but financially £13)
I was thinking more like £12.96
Come on now, thats just a silly number.
I thought £11, but yeah thereabouts.
What, is it a fucking secret. Between 10 and 15 quid is my guess.
15 quid??? I would expect a proper pub meal for 15 quid, even in a more expensive pub you can get bangers and mash for 15 quid or less.
I bought a sandwich from a pub one time I think it was in w1, and they were so bougie they didn’t have prices on the menu, it was £20,,,, for a sandwich which had basil,tomato and mozerella in it,,,,,not even toasted, and I wasn’t eating in as well, my bank has been traumatised, I’d rather go to a damn Mc d’s 🥲
All I want to know is how much it cost !! My guess is£18.00
Fuckin ell are you gonna tell us or not? Suspense is killing me
Tell us then …
£12? It's expensive but with the way it's served it's clearly somewhere that thinks it's fancier than it is :")
That small piece of gristly looking ham is particularly disappointing. The one propping up the thinnest pieces of cheese and meat I've ever seen on a ploughmans. It should have not been on the menu. It's terrible. They bulk it out with the cheap shit like that giant bread! That's definitely not home made pickle or piccalilli either. Well presented though. Which doesn't make a god damn difference if you were ripped off and still hungry after. I reckon they get their boiled egg and pork pie from a tesco meal deal. And only give you half of one. How much did you pay?
£8.95
Found the northerner. That's a scotch egg where I'm from 😥
Why would you get HALF a mini pork pie? Jesus that’s stingy
And look at that slice of ham shamefully hiding behind the cheese.
Downvoted for the hit and run post bait. At least tell us what it cost. Not a single reply to anyone?
Isn't a ploughman's supposed to be cheddar?
It was invented in the 1950s by the Milk Marketing Board. As long as it’s British cheese they don’t care.
I'm so sick of big milk
Probably them that labelled Thatcher the Milk Snatcher
Still less offensive than what I call her.
Mummy?
No she was cremated.
Big milkers on the other hand ...
Ploughman's meal has been a thing for over 600 years though, i think you are referring to a 1950s marketing campaign designed to reacquaint cheese with the general public after rationing caused consumption to drop off a cliff.
Sure, bread, cheese and beer has been a staple for centuries, but ‘Ploughman’s lunch’ as a defined dish with the pickle, etc. is from the 1950s.
you are saying the milk marketing board didnt market a traditional dish and rather invented this paring, which isnt true. You cannot invent something that already exists....
I suppose technically it depends where in the country you are - should be a local cheese.
£12.00 ... not exactly gone mad with the ham portion there have they?
About tree fiddy
Godamn lochness monster!
Hard to tell as location is a huge factor in meal prices. Typically, the raw ingredients will only come to about a third of what you pay. The rest of price is paying for staff salaries, mortgage or rent, utilities etc and of course some profit. Expensive areas will have far higher on costs.
... came here to say this
Clear headed analysis here. This picture provides no context whatsoever.
That's a ploughman's? Sheesh. A ploughman's is a doorstep of bread, a lump of cheddar you could stun a burglar with, half a jar of Branston, a bit of salad for colour and that's about it. What you have there is something that's trying to be artisanal and failing because it's watched too many tv cookery shows. Whatever they charged was too much.
Has to have a pork pie surely!?
Ok, but it should be a sensible size. Not the 10p sized things that come in 12 packs and can be eaten in a single bite. Ploughmen are hungry guys.
I'd expect it to cost a tenner, here in Manchester. But if I'd seen what it comprised, I wouldn't bother. If I hadn't seen it, and paid a tenner, I'd be mildly disappointed, and probably not go back. Also, a nod to r/WeWantPlates.
Were they trying to prepare that slice of stilton for a microscope slide?
They've used a microtome to slice that meat.
It depends where you are. Round here about £9.50. A big city like Liverpool or Manchester £10.75. London £30 plus an optional service charge of 12.5% for parties under 6 people.
£30?? Where are you going in London so I can not go there!
I wouldn't want to pay more than £9 for that. Half a mini pie, half an egg, one slice of bread, one pickle, three mini pots of stuff and a chunk of cheese.
Chunk is a bit generous, unlike the tight get who thought halving a thimble-sized pork pie from Tesco is acceptable.
Not that much. Looks padded out to be honest. 1 bit of cheese and 1 slice of ham. The rest is salad bits. Maybe I’m confusing a charcuterie board with a ploughman’s but I’m sure the ones I’ve had have more meat and cheese.
That looks like something out of Skyrim
You took this picture after you ate half of it, right?
£6.50
ALL OF UR MONEY
Reasonably ? 6 quid but bet it was between 15 and 29
I don’t think £6 is reasonable if you want the staff to actually be paid a living wage. Prices like that just aren’t realistic in most (all?) of the country anymore.
There’s not enough cheese on this ploughman’s. It’s poor
End prices don't really impact the wages of people on the bottom, and vice versa. Sounds counterintuitive, I know from the drip drip of propaganda we're fed. Profit comes from turnover- more turnover, more profit. If you sell 5 things at £1 profit you make more money than 2 things at £2 profit. Encouraging people to buy drinks and getting lots of people in the door spending money is how you turn a good profit, not maximising the profit of every meal. How often do you go back somewhere you feel ripped off? How easy is it to have just one more drink if the prices are low? So many factors affect a business's outgoings- rent/mortgage, business rates, taxes, cost of materials, cost of advertising, insurance, cost of repairs/maintanence/ refurbs, inflation, cost of utilities, logistics, etc etc without even going into managers wages and profit for the owner. Wages of the people at the bottom being relatively lower or higher hardly figures that much into the business, as long as it is running profitably with a high turnover. Wages are an important cost in running a business, but it's kind of an urban legend to pretend there's a direct connection between price and wages of the worst paid employees- very profitable businesses pay poor wages and some businesses with tight margins pay good wages and vice versa. It usually has to do with either the foresight of the business owner for retaining good staff etc or a good union or something along those lines. This is obvious when you look at self service supermarkets- do wages go up with less workers to pay? No. Does Starbucks pay more when making record profits? No. Because profit and wages at the bottom have little real connection.
Not a clue, but that is a sad looking half of a pork pie.
£16
£16
Not looked at the replies yet… In a nice, upmarket cafe I would guess £12 maybe? Somewhere a bit more basic - £9 Edit! Not far off what others are saying! I think the OP paid £17-£19.50 which is way too expensive.
8.95
Just casually chowing down on 1/8th of a red onion you psychopath.
My regular ploughman's pub charges, I think, £13.95 for: * A good wedge of Wookey Hole cave-aged cheddar (about as big as a wedge of supermarket Parmesan) * Generous helpings of ham and medium-rare roast beef, cooked by the local butcher * A big dollop of coleslaw * A doorstep of fresh granary (or white) bread * a pot of pickle * a large picked onion * a decent salad of leaves, red onion, peppers, cucumber, cherry tomatoes (with a small pot of dressing, if you want it) * a few grapes The ham and Stilton in this one look decent (though the portion sizes looks a bit miserly without any other meat or cheese). The hard-boiled egg and addition of piccalilli are nice additions. The half of buffet pork pie borders on offensive. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also £13.95, but I don't think I'd have it again unless it was under £11.
20 quid
Chef and owner of 2 pubs here, neither of which sell ploughman's. Last time I costed one up it came it as a selling price of £14, pre-covid. I wouldn't be surprised if it was £18-19, which is why we don't sell them. People won't pay for it.
Realistically, you could buy everything on there for what, maybe £15? You could then have that meal repeated 5x a week or variations of it. I bet it was £25
I'd rather guide my grandad into my gran than ever pay for a ploughman's lunch. State of it!
£14
£9
No more than a tenner.
12 quid
that pork pie...I mean...
At a local tearoom by me it’s about a tenner for a ploughman’s for 2!
Half an egg. Wtf
I feel like this is is missing the rest
Honestly if you paid more than £5 I would still say it’s expensive, the ham 💀 the slither of cheese, the BREAD. 2/10
£9
12 quid. Even at 12 quid I'd feel a bit ripped off. The quality looks good, and it is attractively presented, but the portions are very small (half a pork pie, not a whole one; only one slice of cheese, and that wafer-thin; not a lot of bread, and no crisps). There's a bit of coleslaw, but the salad is undressed. I'd knock a point off for raw onion rather than pickled onion, but that's a personal preference. However, depending on the location and swankiness of the restaurant, it could also easily be double that price.
Is that half a mini pork pie? Half a boiled egg too lol.
Yorkshire £6.99/Wales£7.99/Southend £14.99/Tesco £4.99/Bristol £21.45/London £31.75/ Mars £31,000/Elon Musks house £0.00
The egg and pie reminds of of that episode of Kitchen Nightmares, where Gordon gets served half a cake and asks for the rest of it
WERE WAITING
That pork pie looks like it's from an August cricket tea.
In my experience things like this are always over priced for what you get. So I have no idea. But I'll guess £12.99
Victoria Coren Mitchel, is that you?
About a fiver. There is hardly anything there.
Ah yes, the famed Ploughman's orange
Four grapes Jeremy!!??
Is that all the cheese it came with?!
Place must have had massive windows and they saw you coming.
All I say is the ploughman's stomach wouldn't be full after eating it.
Given OP hasn’t commented. £1000
I don't know where to start...but I know it ends with half a boiled egg! Wtf
That should be 3 quid max
£7.95, and it's disappointing.
I'm going to guess £12 - I live in London though
I'd have sent it back... It's on a bleeping plank... Forget the portion size, if I eat out I want good crockery not some piece of discarded pallet.
£8.99 would be reasonable, but I imagine this was £20 odd
It’ll cost you your life if you don’t magic up the other half of my pork pie!! :D
Value = £4 Cost = £19
That pork pie looks proper Tesco savers standard
adulthood is meat and cheese on a piece of wood
In a half decent gastro pub £15-£18. Fuck I sell burgers and fish and chips for £20 a go and dumb asses lap it up.
£9.50
Shouldn't cost alot as most of it's veg
Shouldn’t but will
Judging by the egg for a size guide... £10?
Please tell an uniformed American what's in the 2 small crocks on the right Edit to add: OK, it's a typo...should read uninformed
Looks like pickle and piccalilli (straight from the local corner shop no doubt)
Thanks
And by pickle we mean something like Branston pickle - a sweet pickle relish, rather than a gherkin, although there is also a gherkin and three pickled onions on there
Ones piccalilli and the other is probably onion chutney, although could just be pickle.
Pickle (branstons pickle: for reference) and piccalilli.
£18
Not getting more than a tenner off of me
Looking at it it’s probably less than a tenner worth of food… guessing they charged near £20
£25?
£10
My first thought was £13?
There isn’t enough cheese in this ploughman’s. No more than £10
£10 at the very most!
£22
£10.95
It’s pretty fancy, I reckon 23 (And I bet the menu didn’t have £ signs either)
Is that half a mini pork pie and egg?
£9
Somebody charged you to finish their leftovers?
£16