Last night my 14 year old says "mom what are you making for dinner?" I tell him paleo chili - he says "Does that mean you're making it with dinosaur meat?" What a smartass!

People think we eat nothing but meat. Nevermind I'm eating more vegetables than ever before.

I just get so tired of people thinking we're the abnormal ones. Yeah, you know, cause all that garbage of the SAD is NATURAL.

"You eat like a caveman? Those guys only lived to be 30, you know."

The association with fringey and dangerous pseudoscience like the anti-vax movement.

Most people I know haven't heard of "paleo" and as such haven't formed any assumptions or stereotypes.

I'm tired of seeing that Banksy caveman image.

I've had people assume it means low carb/atkins. That annoys me. To me it's not about macronutrients, but about nutrient quality.

I think the idea that normal Paleo people eat raw meat needs to go away.

I have read a couple of articles that suggest that the Paleo diet is all about eating rotten ("high") meat. There are interviews with some knuckleheads that talk about how the taste and smell is "not that bad" and then talk up the health benefits. Every other aspect of the Paleo / Primal diet is not mentioned.

It's almost like someone is trying to denounce the diet...

These paleo people need to go back to their caves. One took my woman, one took my job, and a pack of them ate my dog!

Most people I know other than hubs don't know about paleo, but one of my friend views it that I'm on a very strict diet. Kinda gives me a cringe a bit cause I don't see Paleo as a "diet"

Just like Vrimj said, people mistake me as a vegan and attack me for it.

Most people don't know what paleo is, but when they see what I eat, they are often disgusted lol! I eat butter, and they tell me I'll get heart attacks, high cholesterol, die... and then when they see I avoid gluten and a lot of other foods, they think I am a picky, elitist doosh.

Honestly it is one of the things about my lifestyle that people are the least surprised about and have the fewest negative assumptions.

I do think people expect me to be vegan, but as long as I have some bizarre eating habits new acquaintances are happy :)

In other words, it is the rest of my life people find shocking, not what I eat.

When I first told my mother about Paleo (and all of the health benefits associated with it), the first thing out of her mouth was, "How much do you weigh now?"

I reported my weight to her, and she seemed satisfied, and remarked, "I just wanted to make sure your diet wasn't making you fat."

Because, you know, our society got obese from eating dead animal flesh.

(In her defense, she doesn't give two hoots about my weight; she was so impressed by Paleo that she wanted to try it. Just, not at the risk of losing her figure.)

I get tired of people asking me how I can eat, with having to hunt and forage my dinner, even though we all live in a megacity.

Here's the one assumption that drives me nuts. It's when people act like I never learned the conventional "wisdom" that high-fat diets cause heart attacks, eating red meat causes cancer, etc. If I'm eating so much meat and eggs, I must not know any better, or maybe I just don't care about my health. It doesn't occur to these people that maybe I know something they don't know!

The 2 most recent for me:

"Oh so you fell for a fad diet"

"You know Dr. Atkins died of a heart attack?"

The proof is in the (lack of) pudding though when I'm way healthier than the rest of my family and friends.