You Need a Secret Phone Number to Get This Burger in Israel
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2019
- With rising costs and punitive taxes reportedly pushing Israeli restaurant owners to the brink, some chefs are taking matters into their own hands. A clandestine mask-wearing underground burger-maker, known only as The Professor, pushes his gourmet patties on WhatsApp - relying on viral chatter for orders which by far exceed supply. VICE News' Elle Reeve meets The Professor to talk taxes and burgers.
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VICE News' Elle Reeve meets The Professor to talk taxes and burgers.
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Elle Reeve marry me? Lol
For Benjamin Netanyahu's sake!
Look at the nails of the chef... I think he needs to rectify his personal hygene habits and wash his hands more often.
#MiddleEastHygene
Well at least Kuwait has a fucking Taco Bell. 😂👍
apartheid promoters
this isn’t some “exclusive” burger restaurant. it’s some guy who has to keep his location secret because he can’t pass a health inspection. it’s just a big gimmick, these burgers aren’t special.
Came here looking for this comment haha
Horatio KJV Bible don’t forget horse meat from the horse stables nearby!
Horatio KJV Bible send me the link
@Horatio KJV Bible shoot the link bro
@Horatio KJV Bible and those strays
So, y'all couldn't get the person in the thumbnail to wash his hands before hand. Those nails are disgusting.
You said it best, not only that but dead bird&poop-dogs strolling in.....yuck&yikes🤢
They were used after circumcising a boy.
Typical leftist vice viewer can relate to being unwashed. Disgusting people, leftists.
Those are the fingers of some one performing ritual male genital mutilation.
favor crystals
I love how rhe reporter paints them like a secret underground society with the best food in the world. When it’s a normal guy who is abusing social media to make a living frying normal burgers while he runs from health inspectors
Pretty much. It's just an ordinary burger. It's nothing special about it.
Any restaurant that doesn’t “want people to know where we cook”…shady af.
Facts
LOL
XD nice one
"regulations cost me money"
Yes, it's called being fined for health code violations
Or jailed for them
Hmm he said 5-6,000 for a sign to promote his restraunts.
@@jtaylor3609 ooo noooo. not a quarter of a monthly rent per year! what....ever....will....we....do....welcome to the business world
@@paddington1670 Things are far cheaper & people are paid far less in Israel than in the US. Our 5k is nowhere near equal to their 5k. Don’t talk about things you’re not educated on
You would be right, but the food regulation in Israel is absolutely horseshit... It's way beyond food safety, they are so strict on subject that have nothing to do with food safety.
For example for many consumer products and automobile products, we have Israeli regulation, that is more strict than US or EU regulation, and hence you can't import some US or EU products because according to our regulations - they aren't safe.
He's the reincarnation of mr. Krabs: overpiced burgers, secret recipe, hates health inspectors
Yeah and he is from 🇮🇱 so he loves money
@@rlm2933 jeez lol
@@rlm2933 thats antisemetic and not even funny dude
@@rlm2933 You are a shame on your family
@@Diddlebop49 I’m just pointing out facts
Her: “Give me a specific rule that really pissed you off”
Him:” Health inspectors”
Alan Joyner he's nasty
Worrrrrd. 😂🤣
😂😂😂😂
There's def a secret sauce 💦
@@jpablo700 hahahah!
He would be shutdown immediately 😂. Even the grill looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in 10 years
This is the middle East, nobody shutting down anything.
@@tomw6947 no it's not there is no Israel!
It's #freePalestine
@@BOOSTDADEMON Palastine has always been free. They choose war with Israel.
Israel started war
By accomplishment by Former President
Donald J. TRUMP
@@BOOSTDADEMON Palestine will forever live , Palestinians are small in numbers but huge in heart and we make moves wherever we go ..we work hard and smart and have heart
sees thumbnail, read caption: you need a secret phone number to order this burger... Me: YOU NEED SOME MAGICAL SOAP TO CLEAN THEM NASTY ASS HANDS
LMFAOO
😂😂😂😩😩😩
Came here looking for THIS ^ comment!
Thanks for validating I wasn't the only person that noticed
🤢🤮
Yeah for real
His nails are the reason gloves were invented.
Abdullah Sankari roger
You can ask any chef about how they feel on wearing gloves, you'll be surprised.
Most foods are cooked, and at the right temperature, bacteria dies.
Fritz Asuro Most chefs don’t have the nails of a mechanic.
@@solomonsankari9589 yah, but was it from a grease of an engine? Maybe it's from something he touched in the kitchen? And also, is it even his fingers!
Abdullah Sankari
YES AND IN SOME UNFORTUNATE PARTS OF THE WORLD PEOPLE EAT WITH THEIR HANDS...TALK ABOUT TRUST!!
I’m a diesel mechanic and not even my hands are that dirty
Lmaooooo
Are u diesel mechanic ??
HahahahaHHahahahHa
Redvodka r/wooshed
Diesel engine mechanic I guess.
“Food prices are high and labour costs are high” I can’t see how keeping your location secret is going to lower these. Unless you use dodgy ingredients and workers.
I think he's just avoiding restaurant tax lol.
By operating in a remote village location he avoids high rent, high municipal taxes, high business license fees, signage fees, fire inspection fees, etc etc.
Labor and ingredients costs are the same.
I can't lie, he's intelligent for an anti regulation type of guy. Those people usually wallow in cynicism and make nothing for themselves, but this dude managed to sell regular ass burgers for 53$ in Israel. That's an accomplishment.
Why do u have the Sikh symbol as ur dp?
@flim you seem like a really unfulfilled and sad person to go on such a random and illogical rant. Hope things get better for you, buddy.
@flim You're offended that you lost an internet argument lmfao.
Hell Yeah!
$53 is for two burgers. So $26.5 per burger.
Rumors say that horses keep disappearing mysteriously in the area 😂😂😂😂
In the Netherlands there was a scandal a few years ago when it came to light a meat producer used cheap surplus horse meat from South America and sold it as cow meat.... Ahhh, good times.
@@vampirzhul8115 Well France also has a name to keep high when it comes to animal cruelty. We can sit in a circle with Belgium and Spain and China and Japan and hold hands! 😁
yeh and orphan children
Perfect example of taking advantage from human stupidity
😂😂😂😂😂
I have news for you... that's what all marketing is about.
@@chrisbruggers8076 Spot on
@@chrisbruggers8076 u don't tell that to someone from the cave era. 😏
@@chrisbruggers8076 No shit sherlock. What is the point you are trying to make?
"There was a dead baby bird on the ground. I took a picture"😂😂😂
Whataburger, or In-N-Out opening in Israel would end this operation in about 3 days.
Whataburger is trash. In n out is overrated and I thought is was nasty.
@@Alex0992 opinions are like a**holes... everyone has one, and some of them stink more than others.
@@charlesncharge6298 interesting that the exact same could be said about your initial comment 🤔🤔🤔 I sometimes feel like self awareness is non existent on the internet lol
@@samweldon8104 well the difference is that my initial comment was intended to be humorous as was my response to his. I'm always amazed at how people fail to pick up on things like that on the internet.
Not kosher so no
That thumbnail really puts the "thumb-nail" in "thumbnail"
I couldn't care less about how those nails looked, but I'm adding this to my list of underappreciated youtube comments.
WHERE ARE THE LIKES, PEOPLE ?!?!?!? WHERE ARE THE LIKES ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
😂😂😂😂😂
Chill it's 3 days still
@@admagnificat stop
It’s Israel we got other stuff to worry about.
Those nails are disgusting if someone made me a burger with hands like that I'd slap the taste out their mouth
Mazin Elansari it adds flavor lol 😂
No you wouldn't
That’s why it’s secret, so he can’t be sued after a customer gets food poisoning
ever go to mcdonalds
gloves
"his kitchen is in a secret location". *progressively gives whereabouts*
Patient zero didn’t eat a bat, he ate one of those burgers.
There was a dead bird
on the ground
I took a pic of it
Is this a millennial haiku?
😄😄😄
Best comment.
Lol, but sadly no, it's suppose to be 5-7-5 syllables.
You win...
I admire your intellect. Kudos.
"Labour costs are high" AKA I don't want to pay employees a living wage?
When it costs 1500-1700 dollars a year to put a sign on the front of your restaurant and probably other absurd fines and fees I'm not surprised it's hard to make payroll. They have to fund the occupation somehow I guess.
Charmanderaznable Because it’s true. Businesses want to maximize profits and they decide on the number of employees they want to have. That's already the largest budget item for most of them. When the government forces them to pay more per worker, they hire fewer workers to keep the total labor costs the same.
Also low wage jobs isn’t intended to support a family of 3.
@@jerryg1692 Spoken like the 15 year old who has never had to work for anything that you are.
Keep watching Fox news and maybe you too will be able to lick boots one along side your parents.
Exactly, restaurant owners dont want to pey waiters in israel pension and wage beyond their tips.
@intempify He only does 5 orders a day he is backes up.
Easy times eventually turn into hard times. Keep your customers healthy, don’t want one becoming sick because of your food.
he doesn't care thats why he doesn't have a real restaurant anymore. something like health regulations and paying taxes.
The way he takes advantage of how people react on social is pretty dope
This dude looks like he's lying through his teeth LOL
Lmao I thought the same thing! Like he knows there's nothing special about the actual burger, and apparently he doesn't care about basic kitchen sanitation practices lmao smh. I've worked in mid to high end fine dining at both back of house & front of house (kitchen & bussing/ serving). If your restaurant kitchen is dirty you really are not on point for your customers, like at all! LOL
Looks like it. He';s making at least 10000$ from 200 burgers a night
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@Anon Omous it was prompted when they asked him if it was illicit
@Anon Omous I found the one time out of ten lmaooooooo
Secret ingredient is palm sweat
Karl and fingernail grime
It's human meat from the black market...
And fingernail gunk.
With a soupcon of Kosheroggi (Kash-n-Karrion).
@@dewilew2137 dude, some secrets are not meant to be shared
dude does not want to be noticed and wants his kitchen to be unknown: proceeds to be part of a Vice YT video
This is literally what rich spoiled kids would like the most.
I dont care what any one says. The regulations that he is complaining about from the government are cleanliness!!
Changed his location 3 times then decides to film his current location
Health inspectors didnt like his last 2 so this 3rd location must be a step up from the shithole he was working in before...
after this, fourth is coming up
Thank God for the UK’s food hygiene rating system.
Y'all, the hands in the thumbnail aren't the professors! 5:06 its one of the customers who just got their meal delivered!
They should spend the 50 on a manicure and some hand soap
One of those restaurant laws he doesn’t like is obviously the food hygiene laws! He comes across as greedy and selling homemade burgers to rich kids for high prices. Would you pay for a expensive burger made in that kitchen?
Yes
Exactly 🤦🏻♀️
I wouldn't pay for it - but there's nothing wrong with the kitchen they're being made in. You're aware that as per government regulations there is an allowable amount of feces in your store bought food products... right?
This guy is simultaneously ahead of the coronavirus and will bring about the next one
Yes bro lmfao smh
$50 FOR TWO BURGERS?! I wound just make my own.
bruhh
With 50 I can eat burgers in my house for a week
sounds like just a guy evading the food insecptors lol
"Being a master of hype is good money." I agree and believe Banksy proved this.
Distaval i read this as they said it in the video lololo
*Theres a dead baby bird on the ground*
"I took a pic of it."
Is this a statement? 👀
I think it translates to
iM sO quIrky loOk hOw dIfFerEnT i aM
@@Vulcanized Lol actuallyyyyyyy dont I think she is trying to make a "I'm quirky and different" statement.
I think it was a pretty clear continuation to the opening monologue when she is talking about people wanting to take pictures of their food and that hype being the reason for chefs making what they making. But when she got there, the only thing worth taking a picture of was a dead baby bird
I know a bunch of art school girls that post pictures of dead birds on Instagram
@@Nachspeil yes so many people do that. It’s dumb. We all stared at dead birds covered in maggots as kids; you’re not special
@@Vulcanized i'm not that obnoxious but If I take a picture of a dead bird I don't say, in a stupid tone, "I took a picture of it."
this guy feels like a professional finesser
Imagine they expect burgers and a dude shows up in armed heist mode 😂
The burger might be the best in the world, but with those fingers, I’ll be vegan in Israel...
@- TBP - dude wtf
@@hagen4264 Reported to the JIDF.
It's actually pretty easy to be vegan in Israel, but our health regulations are up to "western standards" and better than most when it comes to meat
@@taitai300 He means that in Israel we make food without gloves...Yea my American cousins came and it bothered them,never bothers me though...
The fingers is his secret recipe. He wipes his ass with his fingers then lets them dry and he makes the burgers. I tried the burger its prettt good.
Definitely got “The Professor” and the masks from watching Money Heist
was thinkin da same shit 😂
Even singing bella ciao at 4:50
Mitt Patel exactly!!
Money Heist invested all the money to burgers
Haha
The catch is: it's made out of pork.
This guy treats his burgers as if it contained the Krab by patty secret formula😂
Thoose dirty nails on the burger, disgusting 🤮
Mmm a lil from-unda-cheese extra protein
Why would you take the chance after seeing where he cooks…
this dude just combined burger making with drug dealing
the way they sell burgers as if they were like dealing cocaine or meth...
Anyone else click to see if there was an explanation for the dirty nails in the thumbnail?
That's exactly why I clicked.
Incognita Smith guess really hard where they are
It's not dirt under his nails. It's called flavor. Yum!
Could it be food coloring used on the black buns?
@@zaira13ify that makes total sense 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
"He had to move his 'Secret' kitchen three times to an unknown location" proceeds to give information on where it is lol
Defo felt like the reporter wasn’t feeling this lol
$53 for two burgers!! You gotta be joking me
Burger, fries, and delivery. That's not too bad if he is selling it as a "gourmet" burger.
Looks like the guy is selling on a luxury flight.
I mean technically you'd pay that much at a fancy restaurant
Do I get a drink?! Lol
Nope and he is laughing all the way to the bank lol
Any one else notice the dirty fingernails in the thumbnail?🤨
legendfrom904 dirty burger 😂😂
Only the cleanly among us, my friend.
horrifying mayothumb
I JUST commented on that lol. So good to see I am not alone.
That person must wipe their ass with their fingers...YUCK!! 😫😷😬
“You eat with your eyes first” my eyes see those nasty ass finger nails.
They don't want the health department to know where they are because they would shut that filthy place down
"... but left because of health regulations."
SHOCKER! lol
Proof that it doesn't matter where you live… the filthy rich are barking mad.
I love this! I was thinking of this but with another product.
I never thought I would see hype over burgers. But sure enough vice you have surprised me.
Pure hype gimmick. There's been a fad for years to make hipster bars by having "secret clubs", but really they just lock the door and pass out keys to shitty hole in the walls so they can pretend its exclusive. What they aren't telling you is that they don't give a shit who you are literally anyone can get a key, it's pure hype and so many people falls for it, Like VICE, for example.
I think everyone is aware of that lol no one is arguing it’s purely the hype , sounds like you’re just mad you couldn’t figure out a similar scheme with provolone
Did u even watch the video? Vice didn't fall for it, she was so sceptical😂
I don’t understand locking the door and passing out keys. What do you mean by that?
*$50 for 2 burgers = 200 burgers daily = $5000 daily*
Aight imma start a burger joint
he said he was paying taxes on that 1.8 mil too 😂
He sounds like Adam Sandler in , "Don't mess with the Zohan".
Well, Adam sandler is a jewish so figures
LOL, the professor’s voice sounds the Holey Moley Donut Shop guy on the Friday After Next movie 🤣😂🤣.
The journalist's arms are folded. She's disgusted 😂
Shes in Israel
"...and it's expensive, so we need to taste it!"
Same reason people buy apple products.
This comment sums up this whole thing.
As an apple product user, I agree 😅
To be fair. Lots of Apple products have a much longer useful life.
John Gable Smith I recently swapped from using iPhones to some crappy no name android phone that cost $100 brand new and there's nothing so far that it doesnt do that I couldn't do on my iPhone, the fact that people spend $1000 to upgrade a perfectly fine working iphone just because a new iphone drops that basically is the same as their previous models just proves how dumb people are
Similar Apple and Samsung products are priced similarly, but what works most seamlessly with the rest of your digital habitat?
Before the iPhone, the elite phone was a friggin’ Motorola flip phone or Blackberry. After you tried it, you wanted, at least something similar. Admit it.
"Any person has a criminal side"
Like scramming from health authorities and cooking in a bird poop smattered kitchen?
5:02 if that man touched my burger like that I’d be in jail lmao
Yall lost me with the finger covered dirt in the thumbnail
The nails maybe add extra flavor.
Can’t be Kosher 😂
Neither are the deviled eggs
@@manuelzarat yes
Good
@@couriersix8294 that's going against the 6th, 7th, and 8th commandments
It's tel aviv.
I have always wondered if they had burger restaurants down there
like how he sits with a joint right after she says "it just has the little bit of feel like a drug deal" and he went "eeeh"
Lmao... Imagine this in America? Daughter orders a burger.... and the masked delivery guy shows up at night just to get shot.... LMFAO..
Too bad he’d have to pass a Health Inspection first 😕
I wouldn't eat that burger with lysol sprayed in my mouth.
Lmfaooo
Bro, did you give him the idea?
If u eat it with ur butt it be fine
I wouldn't eat your Lysol with my mouth sprayed on it either.
4:07 weed in hands
I'll make my own, thanks, and eat it shortly afterwards, saving a bundle while taking pride in my clean hands and tasty burger.
He was "digging in his backyard" for dirt..that's his special ingredient it's shit! His fingernails give it away!! 😳🤦♀️🤣
"The secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup... the secret ingredient is.... nothing, you heard me, there is no secret ingredient. To make something special, you just have to believe it's special."
--some goose from a kid's movie.
Now that is love for your customers, signs that you love what you do.
Him: How you want your burger?
His customers: Well dry. I mean well done.
Me: 🤨🤔😒
Its 2019. I'm not foraging for my food.
This is glorified foraging.
Man imagine how angry this dude was after this story dropped, he thinks he's getting a sweet plug on vice but she just shitcans his whole operation lmao
Moved his place 3 times, calls himself The Professor, his people wearing masks?
This dude just copying "La Casa De Papel" lol
good marketing theme. Speakeasy for burgers and fries with anticipation.
*Thieves ever house wearing masks
House owner jumps up with a smile, starts taking selfies with thieves and says: I've been waiting for you since 2 months
Thieves: the fq??!
The customers: So where is the food...
*Vice News Editor's Room:* Come in and take a seat. I want you to fly around to the other side of the world to make a 6 minute commercial - I mean, news story - about some unscrupulous guy selling $20 burgers from undisclosed and filthy locations. Make sure to capture the unique and newsworthy style of how he only takes orders through WhatsApp, instead of by a phone call. Incredible, right? *Journalist:* Are you sure you don't want me to cover some real news instead? You know, like WWIII; which is just around the corner. Or the endless wars fought around the world. *Editor:* Nah, I'm good. Have it on my desk by Sunday.
looking forward to your coverage of world war 3???
obviously not art garfunkel Here it is: Duck!!!
I like this guy mindset. No competition.
This man straight out of Bank Heist.
Vice: Is it legal?
Israeli chef: Lol
Money heist makers should sue him.
I swear I saw that guy smoking a joint. And when she asked him if it was like a drug deal he was really nervous
So the secret is he charges 7 dollars for burnt turds.
Those nails from the thumbnail must be from one of the people who order a burger. I would like to hope so.
It is
4:42 the consumers wear the black gloves
5:03 those are HIS dirty ass fingers/hands 🤮
Anyone remember that Asperger's episode of South Park with Cartman?
This guy is basically like my "pharmacist". Only those who knows, knows.
I need a new one sigh. Mine has gone back to “school”
do they ship international?
“There was a dead baby bird on the ground...I took a pic of it”
Mugging people off. That Kardashian family slopping his fingernail dirt laced burgers up their chops was priceless. Trolling the life out of these wallys 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
To be honest $50 for two burgers, fries, and included delivery isn't actually that bad of a deal depending on where you live.
LOL where do you live?! I'm in one of the most expensive parts of the world. NYC USA LOL
@@MrSteezy and apparently it lives up to its name as the city that never sleeps. I'd bet you there are atleast five restaurants in NYC that sell a $25 burger and there's probably atleast one that's worth ordering. That argument aside, how much would you pay for a burger, fries, and delivery, and what kinda quality would you expect?
all bird and nails put aside, the concept of making it feel like a movie and such is ingenious. the customers love it. maybe the entirety can be refined but its different and different stands out.