# Raw Food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500 "2004-08-19T03:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/1 "2004-08-19T03:10:21Z")
I was watching an episode of Amish in the City tonight, and they went to eat at a raw food restaurant. I was wondering how many Dopers have eaten food from a raw food restaurant, and what you thought of it? I am not a vegan, but it seems to be very interesting. If you guys seem to think it’s worth it maybe I’ll make the drive to the nearest one (Atlanta, which is 5 hours away) when my Fiancee gets back from overseas on his mid-tour. I think this would be a great experience for us both. Also, if anyone happens to know of one closer to the Tallahassee area, please let me know! I did a search, but I only found a message board that listed just a few restaurants. Jenny\* ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/2 "2004-08-19T03:37:20Z")
Raw food restaurant? ::shakes head:: I hate everything in the world… ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/3 "2004-08-19T03:54:35Z")
I’ve never eaten at a raw-food restaurant, but [here’s](http://www.thestranger.com/2004-07-22/chow.html) a sample review for one that’s local to me. The review is pretty similar to reviews I’ve seen of other raw-food restaurants: A couple of inspired dishes, a bunch of mediocre ones, and a few dear-god-who-thought-_that_-would-ever-be-a-good-idea ones. That, and the basic idea beind the raw-food movement being based on bad science. I’m something of a foodie, but I’ve never been especially tempted to go to a raw-food restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/4 "2004-08-19T03:56:16Z")
I loves me some meat. I really do, but I am open to try just about anything. [This](http://www.aulac.com/raw/index.html) website has pictures of some raw food examples. Looks good, right? I think i’d do much better by having someone just put food in front of me that _looks_ good. I’d eat it as long as I didn’t know what it was. Things such as tofu. I don’t know what it is, but I know it looks funny. If a chef could make it look good and not say it was tofu, I might find that I actually like it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/5 "2004-08-19T04:03:40Z")
I haven’t eaten there, but I have a couple friends who LOVE it. I might end up in a roommate situation with them, so I was thinking about looking into it. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/6 "2004-08-19T04:08:57Z")
It’s a fad, and a silly one. Oh, it’s cold zucchini and spicy tamarind sauce. Tastes just like pad thai!!! ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/7 "2004-08-19T04:09:32Z")
**Hunter Hawk** Thank you for that link. It provided a pretty good viewpoint. I think sometimes certain people become very zealous about their choices. I have seen on TV many people RAVING over raw food, and then I see that some people find it very so-so. **lissener** that seems like a pretty decent idea! Are your roomates vegans? You know what though? I don’t really like Sushi that much, so I don’t know how I’ll do with other raw foods. However, I figure that raw fish is a lot different than well-organized raw vegetables. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/8 "2004-08-19T04:13:47Z")
No; but they’re incense lighting Burning Man goers, so they overlap with that world a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/9 "2004-08-19T10:41:21Z")
Doesn’t anyone else make protein shakes with egg whites and skimmed milk around here? ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/10 "2004-08-19T10:57:54Z")
I’ve never heard of them before. Is it just a restaurant that specialises in salads, or what? ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/11 "2004-08-19T18:01:18Z")
Well they don’t specialize in just salads. They claim that they can make anything that you would normally cook, however, they substitute the ingredients. For example, I saw in an article somewhere that they used strips of coconut for noodles. They also don’t heat anything about 118 degrees F. I don’t supposed they could make fried chicken though, huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/12 "2004-08-19T18:17:35Z")
A student in a college class I took was a raw foodie. He was also a total nutcase. He planned to set aside two weeks to bicycle across the United States, from Washington to Washington, in his reclining bicycle. He had an enormous beard and a gigantic toothy smile. Our class had weekly potlucks (hippy school), and he’d bring dishes like hummus made from raw garbanzo beans. A pre-college housemate of mine was also really into the idea, but not so much into the practice. I remember him showing me a cookbook that extolled the virtue of raw foods by describing an experiment: the group of pigs that was fed cooked potatoes grew fat, whereas the group of pigs fed on raw potatoes maintained their thinness. I pointed out to him that raw potatoes were indigestible to humans, and that they might also be indigestible to pigs, but he didn’t much care :). I’m not real impressed by the whole concept. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/13 "2004-08-19T18:22:11Z")
Sounds terrible to me. I know a girl who’s a total ditzy vegetarian/vegan/diet of the moment that will get her the most attention kinda gal. She was going on the raw food diet a while back. Heh, I wonder how that’s going. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-food/260500/14 "2004-08-19T18:50:10Z")
My interest in the whole Raw Food thing is not necessarily for a new way to eat for life. I just would like to try it to see what some of the fuss is about. I’m from a very little city, and the most different kind of cuisine that we had was a Japanese restaurant that had the Hibachi grills. I’m still trying to get up the money to try a fondue restaurant. 🆒