Whopper night

The funny thing about the current food system is that the concepts have been around forever, it’s only the ingredients that have changed. If you think about it, almost everything you’d consider unhealthy today has healthy or at least way less dangerous origins.

For example today’s high fructose corn syrup, red dye 40 and seed oil ridden candies were once just honey, fruit and sometimes sugarcane. The original ice cream was a super food – just raw milk, eggs, raw cream, and honey. What’s incredible is that the original versions of foods taste as good if not better than the modern versions. The only sacrifice is cost. It is more expensive to produce food properly and eat healthily, but that’s for another post.

Whopper night is a semi-regular occurrence for us. We love the idea of whopper night because it is the epitome of taking a food that has been demonized and enjoying it guilt-free by making it clean and simple. The cholesterol from the meat is what gives cheeseburgers a bad name. We believe that society has been brainwashed into believing saturated fat is a monster and since cheeseburgers can be greasy they are the poster-child for heart attacks.

We do agree that modern cheeseburgers are unhealthy, but not because of the meat. In fact the meat may be the healthiest part. The lettuce, tomatoes and onions are doused in glyphosate, the sauces are full of processed sugar + seed oils, and the buns are an undigestible nightmare of seed oils, dough conditioners, folic acid, pesticides and grains that have not been fermented. They are a seed oil soup and as such it is not wrong to associate modern cheeseburgers with heart disease.

On the other hand, clean, simple cheeseburgers are special. They are a delicious celebration of the incredible food nature provides. Organic lettuce, tomatoes, and onions. Garden fresh pickles with only natural ingredients. Raw cheese and 100% grass fed beef from cows expressing their instinctual behavior on pasture. Buns made from organic wheat, fermented by wild yeast and bacteria. All combined into a meal that makes your mind, heart and gut happy. A true happy meal to enjoy with those you love to share a table with.

Thanks to Primal Kitchen, and other companies making organic condiments without seed oils and without synthetic or ultra-processed ingredients, it’s possible to make a clean whopper sauce that takes whopper night to the next level. We’ve included a little recipe for the sauce below.

Whopper night ingredients:
- Sourdough burger buns (when we don’t have buns we use sourdough country loaf)
- Raw cheese (our favorite is meadowrella, cheddar works well also)
- 100% grass-fed pastured ground beef. White Oak Pastures is our go-to farm.
- Salt (we use Vera Salt‘s microplastic free ancient spring salt)
- Organic yellow onions
- Organic tomatoes
- Organic iceburg lettuce
- Organic or at least simple, natural ingredient dill pickles
- Whopper sauce
  - Mayonnaise – 1/2 cup
  - Ketchup – 1/4 cup
  - Check out Primal Kitchen for clean versions of condiments
  - Yellow mustard – 1 tablespoon
  - White vinegar – 1/2 tablespoon
  - Organic onion powder – 1/2 teaspoon
  - Organic garlic powder – 1/2 teaspoon
  - Organic paprika – 1/2 teaspoon
  - Salt – 1/4 teaspoon
  - Organic black pepper – 1/4 teaspoon