Procession of children with sausages and a pig Leaders of the Protestant Reformation told their followers that while they were never to be gluttonous or ungenerous with food, they could choose to eat what they liked, when they liked, visibly living out their new faith by breaking Catholic dietary rules. ‘We are free to eat any kind of food’, preached Martin Luther (1483–1546) in 1522. Here Solis the Elder has illustrated this food freedom by focusing on sausages