>>303932The video is titled
Is This BRITAIN’S BEST PLOUGHMAN’S? and comes from the channel
Greeno Eats, run by a British guy who reviews food from pubs, greasy spoons, and fancy establishments.
It’s the final episode of a week long series dedicated to the “Ploughman’s Lunch” (a classic British dish consisting of cheese, ham, bread, pickles, salad, and all that cold stuff you typically eat at a pub).
Greeno arrives soaking wet in Bowness on Windermere, in the Lake District, a region of lakes and mountains in northern England that looks like something out of a Tolkien film, only with more rain. He’s at a pub called the Hole in t’ Wall (Robinson Place, LA23 3DH), a historic spot dating back to 1612.
The name comes from the fact that there used to be a blacksmith next door; beer would be passed through a hole in the wall so he wouldn’t have to stop working. Greeno cracks the obvious joke:
“Who wants a guy handling molten metal to be half-drunk?”The reason for his visit is a recommendation from his buddy, Lee the MacMaster, who sent him a video claiming that the Ploughman’s there is “the best in the world.” Lee also warned that he’d need backup, as the portion is massive, essentially a sharing platter for two (or even four, according to Lee, who polished it off with his wife and kids).
Greeno orders the
“Hole in the Wall House Ploughman’s” for £19.50. The menu describes it as a selection of cheeses, ham, salad, pickles, and a bread roll, noting that it’s “big enough to share, unless you’re hungry.”
When the dish arrives, Greeno is left stunned: it’s a behemoth, a total monster of a meal.
There’s a whole heap of different cheeses (he counts about 8 or 9: Wensleydale with cranberries, smoked cheddar, one with apricot, etc.), thinly sliced Wiltshire style ham, apple, egg, celery (which he loves and his wife hates), potato salad, creamy coleslaw, cornichons, grapes, tomatoes, onion, some unusual pickles (one that looks like a carrot in brine), and bread. He also orders chips (skin on fries), while his daughter goes for nuggets, chips, and baked beans.
Greeno dismantles the platter as if it were a game of Jenga: he tries the ham (remarking that it’s “really rather pleasant”), the crunchy celery, the dressed salad, the various cheeses (the Wensleydale is “nice, sweet, crumbly”), the potato salad, the coleslaw…
He enjoys it all. He notes that the portion is ridiculously large (he probably didn’t need the chips)and his wife ends up eating them while he’s busy with his review. There are some funny moments with his family, such as his daughter guarding her nuggets, and his wife laughing and telling him to eat the “healthy bits.”
The tone is typical of British food-review channels: relaxed, conversational, and dryly humorous, complete with a bit of rain and the usual complaints about the weather. By the end, he wonders aloud whether this really is the best Ploughman’s lunch in all of Great Britain.
He doesn’t give a final score (at least not in the footage shown) but he’s clearly impressed by the sheer size and variety. You can find a link to Lee’s video, as well as the pub’s website, in the description.
In short, it’s a laid-back food review featuring a classic British dish taken to the extreme. It’s not fancy dining; it’s hearty, (relatively) affordable pub grub, perfect for a grey, dreary day. Greeno clearly enjoys it, laughs at the absurd portion size, and leaves the viewer feeling hungry (or perhaps tempted to head to England to try it for themselves).