Raw food diet

My mom and stepdad are doing the raw food diet. I was trying to explain what it is to my Wisconsin coworkers.

"They eat only foods that are raw, and they don't eat any meat."

"What?"

"How does that taste good?"

"People really do that?"

"Yeah, there's even restaurants in California where they serve only raw food."

"Well, I believe there's places like that, in Cal-i-for-nia."

"Why would you pay three times as much for food that isn't even cooked?"

I couldn't really answer that question.