{"id":2829,"date":"2012-10-16T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2012-10-16T21:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:06:55","slug":"paleo-diets-affecting-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=2829","title":{"rendered":"Paleo Diets Affecting Local Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>The trendy paleo diet has been around for a while now, and the individuals that are on it have seen great results. The diet can seem complex, but the crux of it is that you eat like a caveman (or woman). This means that you can eat any wild berries (not poisonous) or fruits, wild grasses, etc., but nothing that had to be cultivated, since farming and cultivation were not around yet. Also, paleo diets do not have any carbs, as breads and pastas were not around yet either. Water is the only drink allowed, as no other drink had been used during the paleolithic time period. Meats, of course, are the preferred choice for those on a paleo diet. The main animals during this time period include the cave lion (combination of a lion and tiger), the woolly rhinocerous, and of course the giant deer megalocerus.\nThe trouble with the paleo diet is that woolly rhinos are really hard to find. \u201cWe would love to have a woolly rhino on the menu,\u201d says Berkshire<\/a> owner James Barry. \u201cBut they are extremely hard to find, and very expensive. Plus, we don\u2019t think we would sell enough of them to make it worth our while.\u201d Barry says that they have lost business because of the paleo diet. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the customers that have become paleo, it is because of their friends. They can\u2019t meet at a place that doesn\u2019t have a strict paleo menu, so we lose more than just the paleo customer. We lose their friends.\u201d\n\nBusiness at Udis<\/a>, a bread company, has really taken a hit. \u201cWe can offer things that just have meat,\u201d says Udis owner Tom Johnston. \u201cBut we definitely have the reputation for our bread, so we just don\u2019t get the paleo crowd, which hurts.\u201d Both local businesses say they have seen about a 10% decline in sales they can attribute directly to the paleo diet. \u201cWe don\u2019t plan any immediate changes,\u201d says Barry. \u201cThere is a chance that the cost of megalocerus could go down, but we aren\u2019t being optimistic at this point.\nThe Stapletonion editor in chief takes the following stance: \u201cThe Stapletonion feels that any diet depriving one of beer and chocolate simply isn\u2019t right. Our great, great, great, great, great\u2026 great grandparents sacrificed and ate paleo so we wouldn\u2019t have to. Plus, those dudes didn\u2019t live very long, and I know a lot of fat, old drunks.\u201d]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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