Martin Freeman is doing what every vegetarian dreams of – tucking in to a pork pie
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “But my reservation about them is they can be very, very processed, and I’m trying to eat less processed food.” Admittedly, he didn’t say this on a stage at the World Health Organisation, politicians nodding in the crowd. Add this to the fact pork pies and scotch eggs – literal random compacted meat discs – have been called “food of the gods” by the actor, who has given up his vegetarianism after 38 years. “This is the first proper bolognese I’ve maybe ever had,” he says. “I’ve not had that good, honest f***ing staple for decades.” Ah yes, bolognese… a pasta dish famously impossible to replicate with vegetarian alternatives, given its main ingredient of “tomatoes”.
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