American Tourist Went on TV to Sell a STOLEN IDEA
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0:00 Stolen Idea in Shark Tank
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It’s how the world works man…
I think you are overreacting
Please tell me you're kidding right now. Please tell me that is a European you are not this stupid. In case you're not aware there are patenting laws in every country but that doesn't apply worldwide necessarily. And if you're angry at people stealing stuff why don't you look at anything China has produced in the last 20 years! They don't make anything they steal every single thing they have! That's an entire country full of Chinese communists who are doing exactly what you're talking about every time I think people from the Czech Republic aren't stupid you guys end up opening your mouth😂
If the product was so great in the Czech Republic how come you can't find it and the other locations in europe? How come you can't find it in Asia?
He never said he invented it and he told you that he saw it in the Czech Republic so he was actually being honest! And for all you know he could have seen a cart handing out free samples to tourists but your assumptions are always ignorant
When you said that for us Europeans seeing that was so cringe, i was like YEAH exactly you put a word on what i was feeling 😂😂😂 I couldn't more agree ! 😂 liked the video, keep going you make wonderful content seriously !
Čau hoši, ještě je jeden název, který je i v angličtině: "chimney cake" - dohledali jsme ho s profesorem angličtiny, je to real-deal překlad
First, they stolen our beer Budweiser with slogan and even catchphrase, now even our Trdelník ( which isn´t even ours) :D
its a country built on theft. Stole Halloween from Ireland/Scotland
@@Joe-sg9ll don't worry, nobody would ever drink piss water in Europe.
Oh so you’re to blame for shitty beer? Haha
You can blame Belgium for Budweiser now. It's not a US company anymore. The reality shows are fake too. Every Christmas market in US has trdelnik already.
They stole just the name, don't worry@@dudeman99999
Trust me even as an American I find them cringe
@@dejuren1367 hold your horses there buddy. What’s that we shit 🦅🦅🦅
@@dejuren1367 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!!?????
What european country do your ancestors come from brother? 😅 jokes
@@strikerkillersk2 mine were brought to the colonies tied in boats but go on
@@djyoungg1that's nice
This is basically how all food products get to new areas. Not the shark tank part but seeing something in one part of the world, copying it, and selling it somewhere else in the world
That's how Trdelnik came to Prague
Nah...most of food get duplicates and localized mostly because of intermarriage between people group and each of them bring their own traditional food then the people around them will fusion it
Exactly, like ramen, sriracha, korean cheese corn dog. The craze will always be there in the beginning, but it’ll soon die down once the hype is over.
@@chvhndrtntlr3482 uh no. Fritos the guy saw them for sale in Mexico and bought the whole machine and everything to sell them in the US. Also it doesn't get bastardized until later after the idea is stolen. I feel like you've never eaten food on this planet if that's what you think
@@chvhndrtntlr3482 Still, Czechs don' have a right to call Trdelnik theirs
so, I have this idea of having a travel guide show in Prague...
but please be honest with us
Not only he invented the Trdelník, he also invented the acute accent. He should have asked for more money!
oh yeah!
I wish I could say this was how they act in a one-off episode of Shark Tank, but this is actually how every episode is according to my dad who’s a huge fan of ST 😂
As someone who is an American and lives in USA, him sayin this is probs normal for our TV is just a strong reminder as to why i stick to animated shows, mostly ones aimed at kids, and youtube for all my TV watchin needs
Id rather watch smth like this youtube channel over Lost or Survivor any day
@@SylviaRustyFae I always think back to my travels to New York. American hotel TV was wild. I have no idea how anybody can enjoy that. All is so overly dramatic, flashy, caters to gold fish attention span and is riddled with commercial breaks every few minutes.
Also wtf is with the weird puritan standards? Fuc..Fox News has no problem showing bloody footage (uncensored) from a terror attack in Iraq but every slight curse is beeped over and god forbid there was a nipple.
@@SylviaRustyFaefor real! "reality tv" programs are anything but real lol. Its so dumb! But the majority of ppl eat it up.
I am from Argentina and I once watch a guy from US selling as a revolutionary thing the "bombilla", basically a straw with little holes in the bottom we use to drink mate. It was so funny, the guy tried to sell as revolutionary an invention that was centuries old. I mean, it was used by the native people before the spanish and continued to be used in the present day.
Also, as an spanish speaker I can recognize the '.
If you think US candy is great, you have to try Argentine candy, we put "dulce de leche" to everything.
yeah, this is so american .. they invede countries, stealing things from countries and present it as their own, and everybody is accepting it as it is normal. very sad.
argentina or german LOL
I actually saw Trdelník twice this year once here in Germany on a christmas market recently, they described it as traditional Ronainian and the other time was in Greece where they really tried to sell this as an traditional greece food and were even more expensive than in Praha. That was strange.
Well, there's a bit of truth in both... The legend is that in a part of today's Romania they once baked hollow bread wrapped around a stick in order to fool invading Turks that they still have lots of food suring a siege. And in Greece they used to make giant bread (up to 80kg of flour) wrapped around a stick and roasted on fire for special occasions. But the origin of the trdelník that is sold in Prague is in the Slovak town Skalica, but it was also widely spread across today's hungary.
I've recently seen it in Greece but I've never seen anyone try to sell it as traditional Greek food, that would be incredibly stupid because it's simply not. We guarantee don't have that in Greece as a tradition. Romanians though, that's a different story. It seems that it is traditional in Hungary and Transylvania used to be part of Hungary so it would make sense that it has survived to modern day Romania.
@@InTimeTraveller I was in Chania where they had that. Do to the fact I watch the show here for years It just gave me a good laugh. When it wouldn't be so expensive I would have given it a go.
Props to the merchant selling it as traditional Romanian. Own it, there's no need to pretend.
@@VSDeluxe lol, the guy was probably just trying to scam tourists then 😛. I guarantee you that 80% of Greece doesn't even know this, so traditional my ass 😂
The only thing you can give credit to the "inventor" of Cripý cones is that he was honest when asked where he got the idea from. I was expecting a utopian life story😅
Stay strong guys, I can't believe what happened in my beloved Prague. Greetings and kind thoughts from Warsaw 😢
Most of these offers get dropped during the due diligence check stage that comes after the show is shot.
at least he was honest to say that he got it from the Czech Republic!
Yeah and he probably things that locals are stupid and without internet and will not know about it. It’s not even Czech yes but how can you steal an idea from somewhere else and present it as your own?
@@saiien2definitely not
@@saiien2it's his company
It's especially notable how the sharks hear that and then see absolutely no problem with the claim that this guy, _personally_, revolutionized it. Really tells you something about the business culture, though it probably wasn't the thing they intended to tell you.
And Czechia got it from Hungary
Ok but isn’t a traditional waffle cone technically more crispy than trdelník? …
Trdelnik is not crispy it’s not a cone it’s a chimney cake I don’t know how to explain.
Yes. Trdelnik has texture that’s more similar to a doughnut. The name “Crispy Cone” isn’t a very fitting one. Especially when waffle and sugar cones are crispier than trdelnik.
@@Elatenl So, just American bread?
(a joke on the fact that the US-made bread can't be sold in the EU because it contains too much sugar)
@@SakuraMiyawaqueenIt's not crispy, it's crispyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. That's the difference
@@yeoremuthare677 🤣🤣🤣
A lot of us in the US understand that Shark Tank is full of cringey pitches. That’s one of the reasons we watch lol
Yeah this may be "normal" for Shark Tank, but it's absolutely seen as stupidly cringe by everyone in the US. I think gawking at the cringe is the only reason people watch it (note - I do not know anyone who watches it).
I think the reason it’s especially cringe for honest guide is because the guy is selling a really normal thing as REVOLUTIONARY. like he said it’s similar to if someone went on shark tank and sold pizza as a new revolutionary invention.
For us from Europe, almost all US tv is cringe. Starting what you do with sporting events. Like NBA is some basketball in break of marketing and strange entertainment for audience, than some 10 guys play basketball for short time
@@sashagallaway1945 Selling pizza like a revolutionary thing is absolutely something somebody would try to pull off on Shark Tank. They put on the blindly out there stuff like that for reactions/ratings.
@@nenadmitrovic3469 Most US tv is, in fact, cringe, and a lot of it is because of marketing, though not just what's in the commercials.
But yeah, anything ad supported (aka "free" or "cheap" to the end user to access) is absolutely a metric ton of commercials with tiny bits of whatever programming in between. TV channels here are almost all private companies looking to make as much money as possible and they learned a long time ago that they make much more money doing things this way. Nobody but the folks making the profits likes it at all, so anybody who can pay to either buy cable channels or streaming services with no/less ads does just that. Only, over time, cable channels and streaming services have slowly started to insert more and more ads and charge more and more for specialty channels or streaming tiers that have the same low/no ads that used to be the standard for those services.
It sucks.
This cones are actually called Kürtőskalács and they are a spit cake specific to Hungarians from Transylvania (Romania), more specifically the Székelys.
Hah, so it's not even Czech, and you know, once you steal from a stealer, the thing isn't stolen anymore ahahaha
@@iliasalaur Have you watched the video? It literally said it's not a Czeck. It appeared in the Czech Republic because tourists buy anything you offer. Stealing would be claiming it's yours and selling it as an "original" Czeck thing. They're not doing this.
I have seen these being sold in the States as "Hungarian Chimney Cakes" before, at a stand at the North Carolina Renaissance Festival, so the good news is: some people do actually manage to get their labeling of these pastries' provenance accurate
He did say at the end he doesn’t know where it came, it one day caned with the tourist and now it’s leaving with the tourist to the states.
The chimney cake it's all around Europe. Trdlenik is the same( although a bit smaller) with kurtoskalac that originated from Transylvania (somewhere in 1780). You can find it in Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Berlin, Luxembourg etc. To say they stole it from Czechia is a as far fetched as the couple who says they invented it.
Glad to see people fighting over a Hungarian delicacy 😂😂
Hungarians in Serbia also make this and sell it and its quite popular especially around Christmas or New Year.
They actually said it themselves.
@@Tovalokodonc It is Austro-Hungarian and was known to many of the different people inside the habsburg empire. There are names for it in German, Czech, Hungarian and propably more languages. In german it is called Baumstrizel.
He didn't say the trdelník was stolen from Czechia, did he? In all the videos, Janek claims that trdelník is not Czech. He said he stole the IDEA. Believe it or not, some people mind frauds and liars, but that's obviously not your case when you made up what he didn't say and are commenting on it.
My heart goes out to Prague during this awful time of terror 😢
I remember a past Episode of "Honest guide", where Janek looked at the inside of a trashbin, what tourists are wasting. There were many of Trdelnik there.
By the way. Trdelnik is often on festivals and markets like Pilsner Fest or Christmas Market and so on.
EU trademark Slovakia: Skalický trdelník, for this name Slovakia has a registered PGI EU trademark
This explains why I've seen these here in the czech republic since I was a little kid (born 1995). We live 30 km from Skalica and they were always selling them here during fairs. Way before it became a thing in Prague. But it also was just a simple pastry sprinkled with cinamon or nuts. No ice cream or anything.
I love how google translate, translates Slovakia (to Czech language) in this comment as "Czech Republic"
@@kripolik Mr. Rubes has no problem promoting langos pizza and the best burger in Prague, but he has a problem with TRDELNIK, even though Prague is the capital of CZECHOSLOVAKIA ... yes, I understand that writing words like Old Czech is stupid, but he already has it in general, even when a bunch of people from the CS have it welcome .... I'm surprised that Slovaks don't protect their border like Italians or French, for example
@@danydylo 📢ding ding ding... Czechoslovakia does not exist for 30 years.... Additionaly, borders are currently protected from side of Czechia because of imigrants from middle east passing to Germany.
Well. Although Slovakia, Czech and Romania also claims it for themselves, their recorded originate is from those locations but when they were part of the old Kingdom of Hungary. It must have been a lengthy argument on what basis they provided the trademark for it.
Never the less, I think it's tasty. I admit though, never had it with ice cream.
In France it's known as “gâteau à la broche” and it has been made for a few centuries at least in the Pyrenees mountains. In Romania it's known as kürtőskalács, the name is Hungarian and it's considered as a traditional Hungarian pastry.Wikipedia says it is Polish-Lithuanian-Belarussian.
In France they also say it was invented in Prussia.
In Czechia we say it comes from Transylvania (Romania) or some sources say it's from Hungary.
@@saiien2 not wrong there, it came from a part of Romania that was in Hungary at that time. So if you see it historically, it is hungarian.
Well Transylvania is just the part of Hungary that was stolen by Romania. The people there are ethnically Hungarian and speak Hungarian.@@saiien2
We export to Prague also good things, not only the money scammers. It's good only when hot though, i guess as an icecream it's served cold.
@@shiniCheese it was Romanian before hungarian immigrants arrived to Romania from Monglolia.
Here in Germany on christmas markets its called Baumstrietzel and i had them also 30 or 40 yrs ago. Its nearly to the Original from Transylvania and it was spreaded within old austro-hungarian monarchy... never forget: Czechia was for hundrets of Years part of Austrias Habsburg Monarchy and Transylvania (now Rom.) and Czechia was one and the same Country till 1918!
Original from Transylvania ie.: Hungarians indeed.
You could have had them 900 years ago in Germany too.
@@bremCZ They couldnt have
Janek: "NOOOOO YOU CAN'T STEAL THIS CRAPY DESSERT!!"
also Janek: "Lol! I can still access this via VPN!"
I would argue the ice cream filled trdelník IS actually Czech. Or anybody saw it somewhere else before? It's a similar situation like Chicken Tikka Masala being actually British and not Indian. Or like Zworykin is considered a father of television, but it was actually Farnsworth, who invented the technology.
That's an interesting take. Kind of like New York, Detroit, or Chicago style pizza. We know it's Italian, but the Americans made it their own.
I might add Hawaii pizza to the list - created by a Greek in Canada
Tikka masala is scotish not british 🤣🤣
@@MaiTran-pn7vd A warcrime against pizza and all that is holy.
They're also in tourist traps in Poland
Massive hug from Italy to all people that got affected by the shooting. 💜
I hope you guys are okay! The news of the shooting in Prague is international.
First of all, the chimney roll is our Hungarian Kürtőskalács and not your Trdelnik smh my head (/s) . Second, it is amazing that they named it crispy cone despite being less crispy than a classical waffle cone.
Edit: okay I commented too early, I should've watched until the end.
Don´t worry, nobody wants to claim Trdelník as Czech food, it is just tourist thing, most Czech people had it few times and that´s it. Outside of Prague and few other tourist spot in cities, nobody do it.
Yep, he mentioned it multiple times in the previous videos and in this one as well. Its kinda ridiculous that it got famous because of Prague and not Hungary.
HAHA yea right it's actually Romanian. It originates from Transylvania. Nice try tho LOL
@@crumb6407 At this point i dont even care. Please, whoever, claim it. We dont want it anyways XD
@crumb6407 who would have guessed "Transylvanian Hunger" was about ice cream cones? Although he does say something about it being cold.
Anyway, gotta listen to darkthrone now.
Just heard about the mass shooting in Prague.
Best wishes and feelings for you and your loved ones. Hope the people you care most about are safe.
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"I saw it on the road in Czech Republic. So, I had an idea to stole it. They won't mind."
*hundred years later*
Budweiser still being sued.
As someone who's participated in helping others develop elevator pitches for seed startup and angel investor capital, for physical products like this it's actually not that cringe. Low tech physical products like this really have to be pitched in super simple terms to communicate why it's actually appealing... And what you see on shark tank is basically just an elevator pitch....
Horrible news today from Prague. Hope you are all safe. Stay safe out there.
That Shark lady is bad at business. Because it's already a "stolen" idea there's no patent, no protection, no barrier for competitors to enter the market.
Someone could literally setup a shop selling the exact same thing next door, undercut you and there's not a thing you can do about it. That's not a $1m idea, it's a very poor investment.
Isn't the same thing happening in Prague and everyone is still making a profit?
I mean, one of their most successful businesses is a lobster roll food truck. Another is a cupcake-in-a-jar business. You can succeed in food businesses with gimmicky stuff.
@@Drak_Thedp yes but that doesn't make the idea 2 million dollars worth
Weird how all these pizza places around the world keep failing, especially as they are all doing the same thing....oh wait a minute....
@@OllieHamon you are missing the point. Of course everybody is making pizza, but you wouldn't claim a 2 million dollar company valuation on a TV show because you "invented pizza".
I went to hungary and discovered Kürtoskalacs, very similar to trdlenik but actually traditional to Hungary, and it was delicious. No ice cream (not even an option), only the pastry cooked over red coals and then immediatly coated in sugar. Real good!
I thing the dough its the same.. we have that here too, in romania, and they don t put icecream on it, just sugar, nuts and a few things
Tredlnik is just copy of Kürtőskalács and that too was created by a Hungarian actually
@@Tovalokodonc Ah yes, created by a Hungarian in the traditionally Hungarian town of Skalica, which barely even had any Hungarians living there.
@@Shpagin-be7qz It's documented that it was brought in by either a retired Hungarian general that moved to this village or either by said general's Transylvanian cook. Kürtőskalács has documents dated much earlier than whatever Trdelnik has. I can't fathom how you find this illogical, you are yourself
Been to České Budějovice recently. The only thing I tried was chlebicek although trdelnik was plenty. Thanks guys for the great work (chlebicek I love).
Prague isn't something I really ever think about, but your videos are pretty cool and remind me that it exists. So good work!
I've been around the world a couple of times and travelled most of Europe, Prague is hands down the most stunningly beautiful city, l've ever seen. If you ever get the chance to visit, take it. 😊
Hope you guys are alright and safe! ❤😢
In Tschermany we call this "Fremdschämen" . That's your German word for today 😅
I don't want it, take it back.
My second favourite German word (first place is arschgeweih)
@@fd6944 🤣🤣🤣
Wait what….. No Czech word this week???
Anxiously waiting to hear of your safety.
I've read online from people that claim to have appeared on ST that say they'll show up with honest, down to earth pitches that the producers will make the presenters rewrite repeatedly till the producers are happy that it will make good TV. Through the whole process being told they need to make the pitch more personal and more about them.
I have been to these people's restaurant, it is in Provo, Utah.
The interior has the Prague skyline and little plaques telling where the idea came from, which is nice, but the trdelnik itself was... Fine... I guess.
We just went for the novelty of having a trdelnik be in the middle of Utah for some reason
I was listening to them and when explain it, I like they are Mormons
@@mellonmarshallI remember seeing those Mormons in Prague trying to speak to people on the street all the time
Yeah, I was thinking, what church sends missionaries to one of the most famous historically Christian cities in the world? The once home to the HOLY Roman Empire. If people there have decided not to be Christian, I think it was probably a thought out choice. Then I remembered Mormonism.
We just returned from a few days' trip to Florence. There was a nice Christmast Market in front of Santa Croce and guess which stand had the biggest queue? Yep, you're right - one selling damn Trdelniks! But at least they were correctly described as hungarian chimney cakes 🙂
I hope everything is okay with the HG team. Thought of you as soon as I heard the news. Stay safe.
I hope u guys are ok. Saw the news about the shootings
In Germany we call Trdelník "Baumstriezel". Cant wait to eat some at the next Weihnachtsmarkt visit!
It's still Hungarian
Thanks for mentioning Hungarian origin ❤ great video
Ah yes trdelnik with cheese burger topping
Honestly the Honest Guide is genuinely the mega top G of all Karens
- Drake, 2023
"Is this guy saying he revolutionized something when he just went to another country and stole their product?"
It is literally what Red Bull did
1:49 Haha your reaction is more fun than the Shark Tank pitch.
I dont know how old is this idea of the guy, but there has been a van selling these kind of "trdelnik" in Budapest for a few years now, filled with whatever you can imagine. And now we know, Hungary is the home of the trdelnik, so I would have a word in this video as well😂
Wait, so are kurtoskalacs and trdelnik different pastries then? Because I figured they were the same just with their names different in their respective languages.
@@callmemamef1825 they are the same, but for these videos I guess trdelnik is easier to use (kürtőskalács is not exactly an easy word😂)
Edit: wikipedia says they are variants
@@mcdonciiiYes, and same Wikipedia states that Trdelnik was made by a Hungarian too
Well done! So smart to capitalize on that tv show from US. I know that the crispy cone is named kurtosh kalacks from Hungary .
trdelnik has two holes, but crispy cone has only one hole.
so he said he was inspired by trdelnik, but he added on his own idea. So thats kinda how culture works, you get inspired, you copy, you add on.
Are you OK Janek? We heard the news in Mexico. Hope you, your family and friends are well. Is very sad to hear something like this.
He died while recording too close to the university 😢
@alexandernico8930 evidence
@@alexandernico8930why would you fuckin say this, it's unnecessary and disrespectful
You say that you can't go to another country to get ideas and then copy those ideas, yet that's how fashion has pretty much always evolved. Right down from the shoes on one's feet to styles on their head. I was in the shoe business for a while and it was very known and common that people from other countries would come to our shop during the annual outdoor convention located here, buy a bunch of different shoes without caring what size, then taking them back to simply cut them up to find out how to reproduce them under their own labels. I dare say that most ideas these days come from either seeing or hearing about someone doing something similar.
So why is the USA suing the Czech Republic over Budweisser beer that comes from the Czech Republic? This beer (and its recipe) comes from the Czech Republic, however, the Czech (original) version may not be sold there.
This primitive ignoramus claims that Trdelník is his idea. But that is a simple and embarrassing lie.
@@jantchakonig I do agree this guy is being deceitful in the way he went about it on the show, but even though he stated the idea coming from a vendor "on the side of the road", he did credit the idea to seeing it in Czech. I've been to Czech many times as I lived for a while in southern Poland, and I've never bought Trdelnik while there, and I wouldn't buy them in the US either. Frankly it doesn't matter. If you're so angry about this, then get the Czech government to sue him. I'm sure that's a great use of resources and time. And if it hurts your feelings so badly, maybe you or other Czech people should go and start the business in other countries instead of whining about non-Czech people doing it. And remember, all the styles you wear and like... came from stolen ideas somewhere else. Maybe sue those manufacturers while you're at it.
@@alexdubois7270 You missed the point. I'm not angry because he was inspired, but because he's being unfair. And they don't even understand why the Czech GOVERNMENT should sue him. We don't live in totalitarianism, this is free enterprise. You have a strange view of it all. Too much emotion, not enough rationality. :/ I have no problem with someone making Trdelník. Trdelník comes from Hungary. No one from Czech Rep. is whining here. That's like calling athletes whiners just because they contradict someone's athletic performance based on facts. That's pretty manipulative thinking.
I saw that there is a mass shooting in downtown Prague today : ( . Hope that you guys are safe.
I am going to Prauge next week and the one thing i know from all these videos is to just skip the trdelnik there are better things to try in the city
honestly, even we locals, eat Trdelnik at the christmas markets(but not really at other times), since that is a very christmassy sweet to get at the markets. But have just the plain one or at most the one with nutella. I can actually recommend it.
Well its not bad, just overpriced for what it is. If you like cinnamon I'd get one just to try it. But without icecream. Its the cheapest ice cream they put inside.
@@vitkrivan9380 Way off topic but the one thing i was surprised about is how many physical stores there is in Prauge where i am from there is almost none left and i still buy CD/DVD/BD/UHD´s as a collector and as a hobby so if you are a local is there anything you can recommed?
The smell is very sweet and overshadows a lot of other interesting foods in the market which is a kinda shame, but if some people genuinely like it, that's good. I think most importantly it is good to know where it originally came from, i always cringe every time some CZcamsrs do a video about traditional Czech food and it has Trdelník on the thumbnail x D@@vitkrivan9380
I'd try it if i were you, no point in missing out when it's only like 5 bucks. Just keep in mind it's totally just a tourist trap
In Italy I saw these only in two places: one sold by Hungarians in a fair in Milan where artisians of all the countries come to sell product or food (it's a fair that happens every year in the first week of December), and a month ago in a fair in Monza (near Milan) sold by some italians.
Both times the name was Kürtőskalács and it was sell as a traditional Hungarian sweet as an empty cylinder with cinnamon or other stuff put on the outside of the cylinder. And it's super good.
But here they cost 7€ or 8€ and it's a little too much for some sweet bread that you finish eat in 2 minutes. But sometimes I buy it, because it's too good.
I saw beggars in West being hungarians.
@@robopalo8041 Your point being?
@@InsoIence hungarians are also living in West. Yet West does not belongs them.
@@robopalo8041 Aaaand? Seems like you're still missing a part of the sentence there.
@@InsoIence it is not hungarian anyway. Hungarians stole it from what is now Slovakia.
Here in Anaheim, CA, we have Hungarian chimney cake place. They sell them shaped like ice cream cones, filled with ice cream .. The place has been here for years. 🤷🏼♀️ You can buy them plain, too. It's right in downtown Anaheim on the promenade. It's called House of Chimney Cake.
it is not called hungarian. Just chimney cake. Hungarians are immigrants from Mongolia.
@@robopalo8041So that's why Romanin genetic admixture is much more Asiatic? Got it. Fact of the matter is, Kürtőskalács is Hungarian. You can go back to eating your ciorba now.
@@Tovalokodonc Romanians are LATIN. Part of Latin languages. Hungarians are mongols. Newly arrived 1000 years ago to Panonia, which was under SLAV king Svatopluk and his two sons, Mojmir and Pribina. Not hungarian names but SLAV names. Check Great Moravian Empire and Nitrianske Kniezatstvo. It existed in what is now hungary and it was also calle Panonia.
@@robopalo8041 Keep reciting your fairytales, i honestly couldn't care less. You're raving
@@Tovalokodonc obviously you care, magyar
Visiting Prague for 5 days next week with my wife, thank you for all the effort you're putting into these videos, they're extremely helpful and can't wait to see some of those places you've recommended. Also, can't wait for Romanian people trying to scam us with expired Belarusian rubels 😅
i literally tried it when i was in prague and to see it just being stolen like that is ridiculous
i hope the sharks found out or do find out
Dude got 200k for an ice cream innovation. And partnered with someone that can take it into the largest market in the world. I would call that a win.
I love me some kürtőskalács. Very nostalgic, reminds me of Transylvania (Erdély in Hungarian, Ardeal in Romanian).
Have you ever done a video on Prague Christmas markets? If not, highly requested!
"On the side of the road" is an expression for saying "around the corner", which usually just means a local shop nearby.
Wait, ice cream since 1642? In Chinese folklore it was created no later than the Mongol Empire if I remember that correctly. (And if I didn't remember that correctly, then I've just performed an act that perfectly embodies the nature of folklores)
Number 1 - you are reviewing the business equivalent to The Bachelor Number 2 - anyone on TV is starving to look good esp "live" hosts live the morning news programs. You could spoon up dog crap on a stick and the hosts would clammer like a fat kid to chocolate cake. P.S. I've had it but did so at the Budapest Christmas market - just the fresh chimney cake. Love you guys and have a blessed holiday season.
Man you are awesome, i can't wait to visit to meet you in the streets of Prague :D
You cannot go to different countries see something, bring it back, make it little worse and claim it to be your idea? How about American Budweiser? :)
Also the guy doesn't claim it as his own idea, he admit that he saw it in Czech republic. So he is starting a business to make those in US too. It is the same as open a Bagel or Pizza shop (both originally from Europe)
Bagel comes from Poland, Pizza was invented in New York and deep dish Pizza in Chicago. So called European Pizza just doesn't cut it.
Guys, guys, I have these great ideas. What if we battered fish, fried it up, and also fried up some potatoes? I'll call it Sea'n'Spuds. Also, imagine a dessert pie, but it was savory and had meat in it. I call it Carnivore Crust. Why yes I did recently travel to London and Edinburgh. Why do you ask?
@jiritoman7563 lol man, just no. The origins of pizza can be traced back to Naples, Italy, where the modern pizza as we know it today emerged in the 18th century. You can claim just a "deep dish Pizza" but I think most European just doesn't count this "dish" as a Pizza, lol
That hallirious! This is the funniest thing ever.
They totally stole it.
How did they steal it?
@@GirlsLonely they went to another country and saw it already existed. Was already done with Ice cream.
Acted like it was some brilliant idea that they thought up.
Changed the name. Didn’t even know what it did to the word when they put ‘ above the Y.
The funniest part is they got money. Not one of the judges was like that a stolen idea.
"There's more tourists than *normal people* in the town that I live in"
Hahahahaha. I know what he meant, but this phrasing makes it so much better.
I am surprised there isnt a trdelnik store in the US yet. My chinese friend told me 10 years ago there is an original shop in Shanghai.
4:00 chyba U nás na vesnici to dělají u cesty, to že to je v praze populární pro turistý neznamená že ve zbytku republiky to není populární pro lidi co tu bydlí....
U nás to dělali vždycky na jarmarcích, takže také není pravda že by to neznaly naše babičky. Už v devadesátkách mě to babička kupovala. Jen to teda nebylo plněné zmrzlinou.
myslel spíše tím že neexistuje místo kde to dělají jako u silnice např že jedeš po silnici a uvidíš v pravo babču jak to tam peče.
Funny that you mentioned Venice beach, because I also saw it there two weeks ago
I was like, man this is a smaller "kürtőskalács" not a new invention 😅
But damn, they monitized it somehow or at least based on the result of the Shark Tank.
Genius
Umh, what's cringe is HonestGuide claiming that CrispyCones stole the idea and claiming it was their own idea, whilst including the clip where they clearly says it's an idea they found visiting Czech Republic.
well they claim to revolutionize something with a concept that already excists in half of europe... how is that a revolution? And in another comment a person says they have these exact chimney cake cones in anaheim for years (without claims and shark tank funding i suppose)...
Exactly
Agree!
I get it, but they never claimed it as an original idea, they mentioned it’s of Czech origin. The tone of any product pitch is to make it look original and a unique idea, and for most of the international market, this is the case with this product.
Well, he did admit he saw it in Prague, so he wasn't really claiming it as an original idea.
Hello there, the pastry (Hungarian: kürtőskalács) to be used as a cone is a touristy thing as well. In Hungary this pastry was around for probably centuries, however I think it is not more than a decade that they started to put icecream in it, or cover with nutella...
In this form it is not traditional anywhere...
Literal case of Manifest Destiny 🤷🇺🇲
There's no copyright on recipes. Kinda stupid of him to act like it was his idea, but still it's not "stealing".
Man. I love honest guide. Brutally honest 😂😅
We had that show in Romania, initially called Arena Leilor ("The lions' arena") and than Imperiul Leilor ("The lions' empire"). The Romanian currency is called "leu" (lion), so probably that's why they changed the name. I never watched it, but it got a lot of advertising.
On the other hand, the Trdelnik looks more like the Kürtőskalács which can be found in Transilvania region of Romania and parts of Hungary (the Romanian name is "Cozonac secuiesc", so "Szekely Cozonac", as the szekely people of Covasna brough it to its fame)... and they too can put icecream in it. Of course, the one for icecream is made at a smaller diameter than the one without icecream, but the composition is the same.
Glad to see a Romanian recognising it as a Hungarian delicacy
Yes you can actually. He never claimed he created the idea. He simply took one idea and ran with it.
In the end that is still considered stealing. Nobody allowed them to re-distribute it. Even if Trdelník sucks as a product it still is someone's original idea.
@@TowerWatchTV That's like saying you can't sell apple pies because some old grandma 1000 years ago made it, it's a common recipe at this point, nobody "owns" it. Now the guy's still a dick for saying HE revolutionized ice cream but at least he admitted toward the end that he's just stealing it from The Czech Republic
Also it doesn't suck it's pretty good honestly, turbo overpriced though
was this copyrighted? many brands were stolen and reintroducted in new markets and it takes resources and skill to do that, for example redbull was after some drink in Thailand or something@@TowerWatchTV
Wasn't a lot of the "traditional" american food inventions, actually brought over from Europe during the colonization?! Pizza, beer, whisky, hot dogs, donuts (a "Schmalzkuchen" with the invention of a hole in the middle), cheesecake and even the Hamburger is strictly a "Frikadellenbrötchen", though the guy did really add the toppings and created the "deluxe version" we all came to love. 😂
Not during colonisation but by immigrants from Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Well, making them by hand requires skill. ;) Btw, it's called trdelník, because the stick, which is used for baking it, is a TRDLO. :)
Was the Surfshark deal, a time limited offer?
I clicked on the link and it offered three months as opposed to six.
Just wondering.
Love your videos. :)
To be fair, the guy doesn't claim to have invented trdelník himself, nor does he say it's a traditional Czech pastry. He simply found something he liked while he was in Czechia, and he thinks it'll be a hit in his home country. Is renaming it as something Americans will remember that's wrong? Or is putting ice cream in it the part he claims to have come up with? The cuts you chose don't make it very clear. The only obvious fault of his is mistaking orthography for calligraphy, but sadly, that trend has been around for a while too (cough*Mötley Crüe*cough). I agree that the show is super cringy though, and I bet a trdelník or two that you should blame the fake hype, persona-centric approach, and the overall superficialness of the show for your sour aftertaste, not the chap who wants to sell ice cream in pastry in the USA ;). As for the judge being impressed with just the ice cream and strawberry, without even tasting the cone... that's some first-class meme material right there XD.
I'm glad, because Trdelnik is Hungarian
This made me so angry when I saw this on shark tank! And even more that none of the sharks recognized it was an already existing food item!
He literally said he got it from Czech Republic
Janek Died as a shot was fired at him from the University roof when he came to close while filming… RIP JANEK 😢
Thank you! Trdelník is hungarian and it originates from Transylvania. Its the traditional food of the Szekler/Székely people of Transylvania who are a hungarian minority. We call it Kürtőskalács. And btw there are a ton of places selling it the hungarian way in the US.
It could turn out just like Starbucks and coffee. Resulting in another self made American billionaire and Janek being permanently bitter-lemon green with envy :)
“It came with the tourists.”
How??? Tourists set up those businesses to sell to tourists? That makes no sense.
Chinese people also buy Souvenirs made in China
believe it or not, a few entrepreneurs tried to reinvent pizza on shark tank before
Hope you all are safe!
Janek: “Trdelnik is not traditional Czech!”
Also Janek: “This guy is stealing a Czech idea!”
Love you guys, but the bashing is kind of annoying. Show us more of your beautiful city and country 😍
Beautiful city? Prague? 🤣
Maybe you should play the video one more time and this time try to listen what Janek said. He literally said that is not from our country (cz), that Czechs hate it, that we make fun of it (starting at 8:37). He´s just pissed of, cause they stole that idea and claims it's revolutionary.
Agree
@@pettygee3530meh, choose your battles. Unless trdlo is patented somewhere, this dude (although cringy) is not doing anything wrong.
@@orciwif you don’t find Prague beautiful, then you clearly have never spent much time there… also not sure what you’re doing commenting on videos about Prague 🤷🏻♂️😂
I think you're overreacting 😅 he is pitching a company that sells ice cream with those "cones" he created the company
Well, saying "I revolutionized the ice cream cone" just doesn't seem honest and we're pretty sensitive to that
@@LusiCZrevolutionized can also be that he maybe does more flavours and just “elevated” the product a bit? He never claimed that he came up with trdelník, his idea was to bring it to the US. If you go to the stores there are references everywhere to Czech and a painting of Prague on the wall. He is not claiming anything. Also he is on a show trying to get investments! You need to hype ur business
It's called "Praguery" in Vancouver, Canada. There used to be a pop-up store in Guildford Mall so I would treat myself at least once a week 😁 It's really good!!!
We just arrived home from Prague. When we were getting some trdelník at the Nam. Miru Christmas market, I was telling my young son about how this dessert was not Czech but actually a stolen Hungarian tradition I was met with DEATH states from the vendor. As long as you accept that it’s stolen, Hungarian and half sized, I say eat up.
Well he did say right off that he spent over 2 years doing missionary work, assuming christian, in your country. So really it's no surprise that he has the personality that can recreate something already established. Btw when I was in the Czech republic I already knew enough (thanks to you) to stay clear of those "traditional treats" as the weed and absynth con shops.