Of Anglo Saxon England, pre-Viking rule, actually ate very little meat. Including the nobles. Eating what we would consider a flexitarian diet, containing mostly cereals and vegetables, with occasional massive parties, where meat was consumed in large.
"The popular view has always been of a big social divide between the elites and the peasants," Lambert told The Sun. "But their diet was the same. It shows on normal days. They were mostly eating bread and vegetable stew. And, once in a while, they would come together for a nice spread or a barbecue. So [it was] an early form of flexitarianism."
England's medieval lords were mainly vegetarian and only occasionally gorged on meat at 'massive barbecues,' archeologists say
"The popular view has always been of a big social divide between the elites and the peasants," Lambert told The Sun. "But their diet was the same. It shows on normal days. They were mostly eating bread and vegetable stew. And, once in a while, they would come together for a nice spread or a barbecue. So [it was] an early form of flexitarianism."
England's medieval lords were mainly vegetarian and only occasionally gorged on meat at 'massive barbecues,' archeologists say