Good Eats

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I'm always down to try a bougie burger but you would have to be high to pay $16 for a meat patty from a Kansas wholesaler.  For that price tag it better be right from Billy Bob's local farm down the skreet and preferably something exotic like bison meat

It was definitely expensive no doubt about it. It was worth it. But to say Creekstone Farms is a run of the mill wholesaler is not doing them justice. Their beef is distributed on the east coast by Pat LaFreida who knows a thing or two about beef. Creekstone also supplies Shake Shack which seems to be doing pretty well with 136 locations worldwide.

Just because it's local doesn't mean anything other than maybe it is fresh that day. You have no idea how Billy Bob raises his cows, what their diet is, what their habitat is like. Local being better is a marketing tactic farmers markets have done extremely well with.

"Marketing tactician" and "local farmer" aren't generally two things that go together too well from my experience having grown up on a farm and being surrounded by them right now.   

You're getting sold to hard by the wholesalers to be honest, but if it's a good burger it's a good burger.  I just personally wouldn't buy in on farm-to-table pricing for meat that's coming from a wholesaler that ships product to Russia and Istanbul.  We don't even get eggs from the larger organic grocery store distributors here anymore unless we don't have a choice. They aren't even close to the same.  If you trust the local source and you know their growing & farming practices, that's worth paying a premium for...stuff that is frozen and shipped all over the world at that kind of scale can never have the same kind of quality control.