The Cook Report - Hot Dog Wars S05E01 (1991) ) ARCHIVED
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2022
- This programme in 1991 was prompted by the assassination of Gary Thompson, the millionaire hot
dog and burger overlord of the Midlands. He was murdered as he returned home with tens of
thousands of pounds in takings in the boot of his Rolls Royce. He controlled all the best sites and
those traders who did not meet his terms were subjected to intimidation, violence and fire-
bombings. Thompson’s death sparked all-out war as rivals fought to take over his empire. It was a
prize worth seizing. Over a weekend, big music and sporting events could produce an income of
£250,000.
And the team was to discover, that at small locations - burger stalls on street corners in London and
across the country - gangs were in control and violence was rife. Roger Cook was in the middle of it
and the target of some of it. Some of the characters involved were as bizarre as they were vicious.
In the Midlands, Joe Persico, a man with convictions for kidnap and torture, was a leading contender
to take over the Thompson empire. He first threatened to kill Cook - and then abruptly changed
tack and offered to buy the Cook Report mobile burger van following the publicity the film had given
it. It was an extraordinary programme that exposed the underworld behind the everyday and
produced a huge audience response.
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Cook had some balls. Hasn't been an investigative journalist like him since.
Love when that guy in the van stops and he opens the door for him and continues to question him lol
He sure has. He stood when the guy came out his house swinging his baseball bat
Tommy Robinson ..
When I was younger I loved watching Roger Cook it was groundbreaking journalism at the time
Donal Macintyre was close thou.
I cant believe that guy runs the whole planet and still has time to sell hotdogs. 😮😮
Cook was fearless. he was just impossible to intimidate. He was a badass before the phrase badass was even coined.
Yes,he was not afraid of anything or anyone!
Cook busted one of my mates Fathers for flogging some VHS Recorders that "fell off the back of a lorry"... hardly gangsterish behaviour is it? Hooky VCR's?! But, and i shit you not, he could've lost and eyeball over it and no joke. Eye for an eye n all that.
@@tardeliesmagic Well... There was Panama Jones in Liverpool. I watched him try to record outside his residence in 94/95 ish. It never aired due to intimidation and I think a gag order (it is over 25 years ago). Basically the subject was a dude running security for a women's hospital who had done time for offing his missus. Have a google. Cook did state on camera that he had never been intimated in such a way before when the episode on "security firms" aired and avoided naming him.
@@stoojona5119 was he as fearless with your mates dad as he is here?
Am I a joke to you?
-Sun Tzu, inventor of badass
This man had more guts, integrity and journalistic ability than the entire bloody BBC has now.
He had more guts than the BBC *ever* had!
@@richardgray131185 true!!
The clouseau moustache had me in stitches!🥸😂💯
That's what happens when you mess with the burger king. Hot dogs are the gateway food it's burgers where the real violence lies. That fake tash probably saved Rogers life lol. I'm. Just talking even more shit than I planned on talking. Mushrooms are a funny drug lol.
@@iamthewalruscuckookachoo1372 😆
Me too. "Do you have a license for your hort dergs?"
It struck me how bad everyone looks in the episode - all over weight, all in ill fitting slacks, long greasy hair, all obviously smokers. They're probably all around 40. I doubt any of these skanky thugs had a decent shag in their sorry lives. The incels of their day.
He had some bottle though ,id have just glassed all 4 of em ,but he had incredible restraint
Roger's disguise makes him look like Bubbles from The Trailer Park Boys.
Cheered me up that
This is greasey 😂😂
😂
Yes Yes Yes
Cookin' up greasy fuckin burgers at the dirty burger
Back in the days when ITV still made proper investigative shows, Now we have to make do with love island and other such crap television has definitely declined over the years,,
Roger was as convincing in disguise as Jeremy Beadle and Batman.
But twice as tough and entertaining
Tash looks ridiculous
There will never be another Roger cook ever again. I don't think anyone's got balls of steel to do what he did. Used to love watching it with the family when I was a kid. The good old days !
Great points Maureen, we need one of these guys again kind regards.
Even if there was they wouldn’t last 5 mins these days without wearing protective gear etc. This is a far more violent world now
Tommy Robinson has the same guts , just tarred as a racist
@@digitalmediafan I'm not sure that's true. For example the kind of street violence depicted in this episode simply wouldn't happen now thanks to CCTV. All the old duffers in this video would be in jail. Just as well they're all under the sod now, they looked on their last legs in the episode 😅- slovenly people
@@user-mt6hr4qf9n yes cctv everywhere but still the violence around ever more so
A genuine unsung hero of British television. Nobody would have the balls to do it these days.
Have there phones out 🤣😂 good result yesterday 💪
Toon Army haway man
BBC and co wouldn't even have the balls to broadcast anything like this.
Imagine if he did a documentary on the evil regime that owns Newcastle! Would love that.
Amongst the many pointless and worthless videos posted on UA-cam each and every day there are videos like this that really give you a sense of gratitude towards both the people who originally recorded the show/saved the footage and those who upload it on here so people like me who have never seen it before and never would've seen it if not for those people.
Thanks. This gave me an entirely new outlook on all the times I bought food from hotdog and burger vans/stands as a kid.
Agree ! ..
It's something different .
Remember (good) investigative journalism? Macintyre was decent too, alas it died alongside satire, good soap & classic comedy. Yet we need it all more than ever!
Dude me and my gf dropped acid one night a couple of years ago and we watched Bullseye , Gladiators and Noels house party while tripping balls and yeah the 90s TV was absurd
You realise that the way you worded that, it reads as if this video is amongst the many pointless and worthless videos lol
I remember a donut and hotdog van in Great Yarmouth in 1992 and two guys approaching the owner and him saying I know a lot of people in this town mate,I dunno weather they were trying to extort him,but in retrospect and after watching this ,might have been.
Nobby Anderson went from nought to cockney is 3 seconds. Thought he was going to attack roger with some jellied eels lol
Eels, eels. Eels inside ya, finding an entrance where they can.
Nobby was putting on a posh accent, then, slipped to his common one.
He got away with it making loads of money
@@stephenhumphrey7935 He’d hit him so hard his legs would turn into trombones.
He went full Michael Caine.
I love this, thanks for uploading. I found this unintentionally hilarious at times, if I didn't know it was Roger Cook I'd swear it was a Brass Eye episode!
It’s uncannily similar 👍🤣
I thought it was a a Python sketch "they give me a pony to stick in me sky apples and and pears jellied eels gorgeous blimey"
Super
Mario's gone into the catering trade
My thoughts exactly! It actually reminded me of an episode of the series, The Day Today, when they do a spoof about "underground dentists" > ua-cam.com/video/IMhGUhSNKmQ/v-deo.html
@@TMxtt Ha ha! I see what you mean!
Dripping of the 90’s. Love it!
Great era
I wouldn't relish getting into the hotdog business myself!
You should it's the mustard 😂
I don't think I'd cut the mustard
Yea LOL
though seriously things have changed since 1991
Don't get mustard!
I found myself constantly playing ketchup.
Dunno what’s more shocking the fact that people are getting violent over hot dogs or that Cook willingly sported that moustache. 😂
It's not that shocking, people get greedy whenever there is good money to be made, and do whatever it takes to make the most.
don't google the ice cream wars...
Remember watching it in 1991 with my late auntie Mary. Her reaction to “who is this young man with the colourful language?” was to laugh and say “that’s one way of putting it!”
Brilliant TV entertainment with a serious message of taking on the bad guys.
Classic!
People who have worked in a field for years always know more about it than new comers who expect to walk in and make a fortune over night
Super Mario should stick to looking for the princess
@@michaelharrison3602 she's in a another hot dog van 😁
You can’t get any better than Rodge… what a legend.
When tv was worth watching, now its complete and utter dross and this would be too offensive for people.
Rodge? His nickname was Cookie.
I watched this when it came out. Very impressive - he is dealing with violent people and he does not look scared at all.
Just because he didn’t look like he was scared doesn’t mean he wasn’t scared..
@@davidbillyard6629 agreed. I have rephrased my original comment.
@@davidbillyard6629 Well he doesnt jump or stumble, his voice doesnt waver, he keeps his train of thought and continues to talk steadily and deeply on point.
Illegal hotdog sellers paying no tax, just a £100 fines.
Sounds like the tory party.
My dad rented a railway arch in Leyton to a Greek fella that made the mobile hot dog trolleys continuously, because they were constantly being destroyed
Very brave man indeed. Its amazing this pond life exists so openly, stopping decent law abiding people from making a living.
Yeah Rodger took some thumping's as well 👊
The reason why they were stopping decent law abiding people from making a living, one word greed, those gready Scumbags wanted it all for themselves,
And they're all immigrants, most of them illegal.
Grubby foreigners...
The "Guvnor" is almost as funny as Rogers fake moustache 😂😂😂😂😂
Tht guvnor was fack all Lenny would battar the lot
19:41 and then Joe Persico himself. A violent, unpredictable, even an unstable man.... as he sips from his orange Caribbean twist with extra ice.
High as fuck…😂😂😂
@@fredyscanlan Sophisticated Greek...
@@paulgould7420he was Italian
wouldent last 2 mins inside
All the old fashion gangsters are the funniest thing about all of this. The man who said he fiddle his taxes etc but he wouldn't lie to you. Made my day
Who feels like a hot dog 🌭 after watching this ? 😋
Food advertising.
Onions and mustard on mine, please
I felt like one of these 18:23
When journalism is done properly it is amazing to watch. I’ve never seen this show before , I’m about to binge !! What a bad ass
That was fantastic. Initially I wasn’t sure if this was a modern day mockumentry.
Roger was a rare breed even TV didnt show half the stuff ,he got beaten up many times
impersonated an arab sheik once that was hilarious ,i do miss that show
@@mcfcguvnors what is the name of the sheik episode ? Is it online ? From what I have seen Roger is very brave, a top class investigative journalist
Thought it was Bubbles
@@Teeveepicksures a spookily accurate comment
The opening titles and the insane moustache could have you believe that this was a spoof. But Cook had a *massive* set of cojones - something that many so-called journalists these days should be emulating. Proper, real journalism done right.
i literally thought it was lol
Made me think of The Day Today.
Turkish Dave invested the profits from Hot Dogs into Heroin importation. His eldest son got caught bringing back a lorry of smack about 1998 . Westminster Council started to clamp down on illegal street trading about 1998 when the Kosovan / Albanian lot turned up & started causing trouble. Prior to that it was a handy little number for the traders with the guarantee to make £200 a night profit per worker every Friday and Saturday night in the West End. They kept the Hot Dog 🌭 trolleys in a garage in Tottenham Court Rd which also doubled up an illegal gambling den after work was over at Dawn.
I used to hate The Cook report growing up as a kid...But man i love it.I need this back
bring back the cook report!!!!! i know roger cant do it but we need someone with balls!!
Jasper Carrott
"Alan Partridge investigates, like the cook report only with a more slap stick approach"
@@ajaydahl we are here to investigate the big boys on farms, do they feed beefburgers to swans?
TR does it.
Best quote at 17:50: “Its a dog eat dog world out there”.
I'm from Australia. I haven't really heard of Cooke before and stumbled upon this.
It's amazing.
These are some of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Thanks so much for uploading!
Thanks Emma.
@@rogercookreports Is there still plenty to come?
Yu single emma
@@javidrashed2553 nopeeeeee just like a good documentary lol.
Wanted hear yur nice voice
The best Episode yet thanks for uploading 🙌
Just found this. What a gem used to love watching this as a kid . A+++++
This is almost satirical. It's got a great potential for a good plot for Peter Kay Sitcom.
‘ Peter Kay presents ; The ice cream man cometh “ might be what you’re looking for. There’s a full episode on here.
I was just going to make reference to That Peter Kay thing. There is something on BBC iPlayer to date called 'Ice Cream Wars' I had to turn it off because I could not take it seriously!!
@@ellenigma2099 It did end up with 6 people from the same family dead and a prison escape where the bloke super-glued himself to Buckingham palace gates
Yeah totally! I'm watching it at work with the sound down. It feels like I'm watching a Mockumentary!
Absolutely, sometimes with the poor video it looked like undercover footage from an old episode of Brass Eye. Something like the illegal dentists working under the bridge at night. Hilarious stuff!
I was expecting Arthur Daily to pop out from behind one of the lock ups, towards the end 🤣
I was expecting Ken Dodd
Well.. it’s her indoors ain’t it?
Terrry
Ooh gawd maim em terry
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great series never to be equalled.Thanks for uploading.
Mr Cool a true gentleman ,off to watch some more.
Thanks for the upload 👍
I forgot how brilliant these cook report programmes were, brilliant, just brilliant. Thanks
This was really great man. I yearn for the old days. This reminds me of my childhood.
LMAO at the idea of the hot dog stands being taken into court as evidence
If u seen the guys selling honey roasted nuts allover london, the unit they work on costs 120£ quid, council comes takes it away and all the geezer does next is order another one immediately
This is one of the most intriguing documentaries I've ever seen.
How could I forget this man. What a brave dude he was
Yes, thank CHRIST he was there to take down the hotdog criminals.
@@VambeefcoHorzey Never underestimate the far reaching treachery of the common Hotdog Criminal
Still alive at 82 now. Hope he’s well
I had no idea 1991 was such a dangerous time.
Oh yeah
70s, 80s, and 90s
If we had social media back then we'd think that present day is delightfully peaceful.
Multiple aunts uncles etc have said the old days were safer.
Very good. Please upload more!
brilliant work
I had my hotdog van stolen, the police reckon it was the work of hamburglars
Is that you dad? Have not seen you in 10 years, you only went out for milk .
The actual joke there is, we all know the cops don't turn up for theft. Now, say a naughty word to someone with blue hair.....
Loved this show
Proper journalism
That disguise is legendary
This is real journalism.
Remember watching this episode right back in the day
Can you imagine him knocking on Prince Andrew‘s door 😂😂
Anybody else thing he looks like Jim out of Friday Night Dinner with that fake Tash
The man had balls of kryptonite
"...Jackie..."
Yes new ones keep coming
lol I really love the editing on this. Reminds me of my childhood lol
Yeah we know .......... Brilliant on the Face Reporting ........... Welldone Roge an Crew
Simply the best investigative journalist of all time' never been equalled
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The cook report 👍 what a legend roger cook 😉.
Love how the server licks his fingers at 9 minutes.
One of the best investigative journalists we ever had in the UK- completely selfless, utterly dedicated to exposing the truth and willing, on more than one occasion, to take a good beating in the name of revealing some thoroughly unpleasant people, be they pedophiles, thieves, gangsters or just wanna-be villains.
This is the kind of journalism needed these days not a bunch of mouths hiding behind a paper or website ...
Great video! Love this channel. I do wish they could find the Conrad Jones episode though
Jesus lol!! The bad guys of the early 90's really did look and sound proper slimy, dodgy and obviously crooked. Almost like they'd been cast on purpose 😂.
Yeah like stereotypical villains hahah
10:10 boaby from the clansman before a became a pub landlord
lovely to see this
Brilliant series, remember it at the time. Had a shell suit also 😂
Balls of steel. Roger Cook had numerous death threats and even contracts put out on him. Haven't seen anyone like him since and unlikely to do so
Great show. I always dreamed of a similar BBC show but with a more slapstick approach
Arm wrestling with chas and dave?
Monkey Tennis?
That shell suit at the end. Magic
Very appropriate on this one Cook report
Series 5 of what was one of the biggest shows on tv at the time,And all it took was a slug across Rogers's top lip to deceive these ppl
This was very interesting. A follow up to this would be great. A where are they now would also be great. See who won out in the end.
McDonald's won
Some amazing characters back then. I miss my country.
33 Years ago today: What a Way to Kick Off (Arguably) The Cook Report's Golden Run with (arguably) it's Best theme Music!🤩🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟, Seriously, on Monday the 8th of April 1991, 12.5 Million Viewers tuned in to see Roger Cook tackle Illegal Fast Food Sellers!
Roger makes a great hot dog.
That's what she said 🤣
Thank you UA-cam algorithm
thanks bill take care
That bloody moustache 😂
These were the days, great TV
I miss this show.
Hiding behind that moustache, you would never know it was him. Absolutely remarkable 😂😂😂
Back when the television had programs on worth watching.
wow such a cliche thing t say. every generation says that
@@paulelroy6650 yeah but its true .
“Our files are in the hands of the police”. Cut to the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I started off thinking this is a monty python ish sketch I ended up thinking fuckin hell insane
They look like they all need a good wash 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sod buying anything of them
@@tabularasa7775 Anne Mathews was nice
@@tabularasa7775 it's funny as I remember these scummy hot dog sellers in the late 80s and early 90s they used to be everywhere in London and they all had dirty looking people on them 😂😂😂 anyone who bought anything of these scumbags must've been seriously drunk or off there heads 😂😂😂😂😂
Quite shocking, never appreciated the sheer level of skulduggery and mafioso culture in what i considered
'innocent 'street food trading.
Roger Cook had balls of steel, no nonsense and got to the heart of the matter without trying to be smug or cool like many do nowadays.
Great TV and thanks for the upload.
sad thing is, it still goes on. My former work mate and her husband was in the catering business, and they had the same troubles. To the point that their trailer was stolen from site and stripped, just to put them out of business. Also the motor sport racing event thing, that still happens too, one cater was promised a good pitch, he was just tossed down a very quiet section. He said he wouldn't return next year, and he never. When you go to these events, most of the venders have more than one burger gaff on the site, so any small independent, hardly gets a look in sadly. When i go, i always give the Independent dealers the business. i remember to this very day, i made a Scottish cater her day. She was looking bored, no customers etc. Me and my dad went up to her, ordered a few things, She got a surprise to see £10 note, might have been the highest the poor lass had took, that morning. We went back there again the next day, and she was doing a little better. Ended up seeing her in the same spot a few times after that, during the years.
Watching this years later it's like something by Armando Ianucci.
When Roy Norris came on camera, I fucking lost it.😂😂.
I had to goggle this and make sure it wasn’t some Brilliant British Humor.
The shine on that Volvo 740….. loverly
Look at that Audi Quattro as well. Such a badass
Thanks for your efforts finding and uploading these, but any chance you could make your logo less obtrusive? It now covers up on-screen text about who the interviewee is.
It's only there as the only version I could source has timecode - hence the less obtrusive cover. 'The entire Cook Report archive was lost in a massive fire that destroyed the Iron Mountain data storage facility in London in July 2006, along with the records of some 600 other businesses.'
A fire destroyed the archives? Sounds suspicious! Maybe Roger Cook should investigate!
@@DodgeyBoy-qq8kf The fire which destroyed all archives was right after a Cook Report on an MP touching up male assistants - and David Cameron was very high up in Central TV at the time ! LOL Suspicious is not the word !!!!!!!!!
@@DodgeyBoy-qq8kf I recall hearing an interview with Roger Cook where he said he did think it was suspicious.
This programme is making me hungry
Arrrrr, Roger Cook.....standing up for decent folk! Kinda feels like he was the last of the era now....