Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 15, 2022

^^^^^^ up votes Wiley bears

Didn’t the Wiley Bears try a Paleo restaurant already?

Those Wiley Bears are some of nature’s smartest predators. Adapting to all environments and even trends

It’s the ultimate paleo weight loss diet … for the dinner, not the diner…

Fare’s fair.

Is it free-range and organic?

Just the bistro for a paleohippie like me!

Isn’t there a restaurant called the cave? Think there might be a lot of them actually.

Rocky Mountain Diet.

I LOVE WILEY BEARS!

I do love Wiley’s bears! I really need to hug one.

Always love the bears.

Bone laying in front is kinda funny.

Our specialty today is Filet d’Homme.

The next one points to an overgrown lawn and says “Authentic Vegan Grazing”.

C’mon in, sit right down and experience the full Paleo treatment.

I really don’t care for either one. I wonder if there is a nice English Pub around there somewhere?

YAY!!! WILEY BEARS!!! YAY!!!

No reservations or formal wear required.

“TO SERVE MAN”. . . .need I say more?

The Paleo diet consists of foods thought by its proponents to mirror those eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era. It includes vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots, and meat and excludes dairy products, grains, sugar, legumes, processed oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee and all processed foods. The ideas behind the diet can be traced back to the “primitive” diets advocated in 19th century and the 1970s “Stone Age” diet [meat-centric diet spawned by Walter L. Voegtlin].

There are some problems: First, the human digestive system of today is not the same as that of our ancient ancestors — demonstrated by human genome sequencing and DNA analysis of the remains of early humans. Human evolution occurred at least in part because of the changing human diet.

Second, anthropological science has discovered that the early human diet was much more varied and less meat-centric that previously assumed. We have pictures of large bones scattered around a cave floor, but we are still learning about the quantities and varieties of edible plants that were available.

Third, the diet assumes that the hunter-gatherer diet can actually be achieved in a modern environment, which it can’t. Not only because we don’t have a good idea of what all was available or in what quantities but because modern plants are no more like their ancestors than we are. Wild almonds contain very high levels of cyanide. That trait has been bred out by centuries of domestication. Many of our highly-touted healthy vegetables — broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and kale didn’t exist until more modern times. They are all cultivars of Brassica oleracea [wild cabbage], which now only exists on limestone sea cliffs because it doesn’t do well around other plants.

There are some good ideas in the diet — more veggies, more protein, less starch, less processed foods. But don’t hang it on the Paleo’s. They invented farming as a way to improve their lives.

I’d rather go for a beer and pizza at VITO’S.

When I did a solo canoe trip thru the MN Boundary Waters at age 17 Dad had me take firecrackers to scare off any bears I met. I wished they’d scared off mosquitoes.

For a while, I dated a young actress who was on a macrobiotic diet, as part of a general effort to get her life “back together”. Although I had let her choose the restaurant, she spent ten minutes complaining there was nothing on the menu she could eat.

I listened quietly until she was finished, then asked, “Why do you do these things?”

“I don’t know. I really don’t know.”

That one of the reasons I don’t date actresses anymore. (Another reason is that that don’t return my calls.) :)

I wonder what wine they serve with a well-marbled, free-range pedestrian?

Some might say that these are bear-ish times.

It might still be there—-on a main highway in Fort Lauderdale,Florida there was a famous restaurant called THE CAVES that had a Flintstones atmosphere and every table was inits own private stone alcove.

Nuts and berries??YUK!!"—-YOGI BEAR

The Wiley bears have come a long way from eating prehistoric men.

I love how skilfully the bears adapt to the modern human society around them.

Same Building drawing, same Alley drawing, just different names – Willey getting lazy.

Bears really were on the caveman’s diet some hundreds of thousands of years ago. But I don’t think that’s what’s on offer here …

I can tell you from experience, don’t go to a restaurant that serves goat.

Ah yes, the little restaurant where you ARE the dinner.

That beatific Wiley Bear smile gets me every time!!!❤️

The Paleo is much more authentic than the so called “French” cuisine.