“This Pig Is Worth Its Weight in Gold” | Dragons’ Den
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- In one of the most unique propositions we've seen in the den, Paul Morris unveils Pandora the pig and pitches for £100,000 in return for a 20% equity stake in his business, but is Paul's recipe safe enough in the solicitors safe?
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Anyone else burst out laughing when his recipe is protected... In a safe....
I'm having lunch and I almost emptied my mouth of food, laughing.
same as the Coca Cola recipe
@@Casey-Jones 🤣🤣🤣
Lol reminds me of Mr. Krabs
How much more protection for a piece of paper do you need, Ben?! 🐷
Goal: Save the pigs. 4 mins later: Anyone want some ham?
Why do tou think people farm pigs though? Pig milk?
Hahahaha
Pigs are being saved to EAT. They are not pets.
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No, really? What's your point, Dave?
I knew this was gonna be good when he said that the pig he brought isn’t even the pigs he wants investment in haha
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This is the first time I've watched DD, and for this guy"s sake, I actually hoped a pitch was staged.
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I was cleaned for 14 months. Then, all of a sudden, a RUclips suggestion appeared before my eyes. It said "Did You Come in Here Looking For a Fight?" | Dragons' Den'. I am now on a 48 hours binge. And counting.
Thank RUclips.
I remember that episode (about 10 hours ago)...Husband and Wife team. She was the aggressor IIRC.
Long live Rory
I can stop when ever I like!😁
Welcome on the journey brother
@@mt2314 they weren’t husband and wife but yeah she was weirdly aggressive
Deb - "So you have protection on the recipe?" Him - "Yes it's in a safe" Me - "...."
😂
He’s watched too much spongebob
5:06
" yes its in the safe, right next to a box of condoms " thats very safe.
Never know, maybe the recipe is in a made-up language and written in invisible ink... AND lives in a safe in his lawyers office 😋
"I want to get two groups of fifty pigs"
"So that's a hundred"
"Yeah"
lol he shouldve said ten groups of ten pigs
Duncan is a clever guy
50 boar & 50 gilt?
"We need 9 groups of 9 pigs, plus another 10 pigs and a further two lots of 4.5 pigs"
I wanna get 20 groups of 5 pigs 🐷
😂
"We have IP"
"How much IP?"
"None whatsoever"
Anyone else get the feeling the two groups of 50 pigs each were specifically given to this man by professors so that you could set up a control group with the normal acorns and an experimental group with the new recipe to prove to the farmers that this stuff was good and useful, but this guy forgot all that extra bits and just said two groups of 50?
That's exactly it and he's right. But since this is a business and not a science experiment the first step is to get two pigs, feed one with the acorn substitute and one with conventional feed then compare the meat.
If there's an obvious difference get more to validate before going ham on the business, if there isn't try again to double check or call it a day.
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@@jay-xj1om hell you don’t need the control pig. You only need one pig to eat the fake acorns and then compare it’s meat to the meat from the store.
@@pabbaditya No, you need a control pig. If you have a farm pig it'll already taste very different from conventional store pork.
You can't get a comparison unless you keep everything else the same.
@@jay-xj1om but they sell the special pork at the stores. He gives it out as a taste test.
I've been binging Dragon's Den so much that I now ended up with the most insane episode, this one. Nothing made sense.
Sounds like a April 1st episode 😀
This is the best pitch of all
So you have protection of the recipe? Yes, it's in my solicitors safe 😅😅
Well, he's not wrong...
Duncan and that Guy,would be great in a Gangster movie.
Duncan looked so pissed off, more than usual
Belta 🤣
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49 years old??? Damn, that guy must have had a tough life!
I hope he’s not ill. A friend of mine looked also much older than her age and she was in her early 50s. Turned out she had terminal skin cancer.
Exactly what I thought...
@@HighTen_Melanie We can only hope so. In this video we can see that he has some kind of breathing problem and a bit of speech pattern
More like 69, I would say. 😳🙄
@@HighTen_Melanie he sounds ill
He needed two groups of fifty pigs because he needed a control group:
You feed group one natural acorns, and you feed group two the artificial acorns.
You take observations and keep tabs on weight on each group, then see what the results are in two months, six months, etc.
He was essentially asking them to fund a study.
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@X2 JoelMK 33 yeah of course but just like all humans are different so are many animals so instead of trying to analyze 4 pigs, it'd be better to do with 50.
Dragons: Where do you plan to keep these pigs?
Him: In a piggy bank
Underrated comment.😂😂😂
Paul: ‘I was in Spain & asked a Spaniard ,he said the acorns are disappearing’ ‘so I’ve made an acorn recipe for the pigs & it’s in a safe’
Dragons:is this guy a genius or barking mad?
Barking mad.
He's no genius
Why the hell are acorns in Spain disappearing? They never went into that.
He oinking mad
Why not just send some acorns?
"I want to take two groups of 50 pigs"
Duncan: "that's one hundred"
*Duncan the proffesional mathematician*
He's a simple man. Bless him.
Say's a dude with a name like "Scott Robinson" 😅
You're a simple small man for thinking he's a simple man, bless you.
@@Shrooms-up6sv you've lost me
@@scottrobinson4611 exactly!
@@isaacsaxton-knight7708 and you are ????
This poor lad shouldn’t have been let on the show lol
Agree
He was obviously only allowed in the show for entertainment.
Yeah there was no need for Debra to be so harsh tbh
Family didn't stop him
Actually, it's your perception that's at fault here. He actually came across to me as being sensible and having the straightforward, crystal-clear, first principles approach to business that rare to find but definitely not a disadvantage. You're judging him because of the simplicity of his talking style and his rustic demeanor and that's influencing your opinion on his business acumen
Can we have more of this sort of pitch please? I am bored of legit businesses getting funding.
but he IS onto something. it might not have a mass market appeal, and obviously he left a few interesting details out of the proposal. but there was clearly a demand for this specific kind of pork, and that demand would only get higher, due to the scarcity of the acorns. they never got into too much detail why they were out, but those who did were mostly concerned with the scale of his business and how much overkill his testing methods were. i mean, are you telling me that those superrich people never heard of that iberian ham? they don't buy the regular 1.50€ "scharzwälder schinken" from rewe or aldi. (sorry for bringing german examples, but i don't know about british cheap equivalents) there is potential in the idea, but the guy goes wrong about it, and doesn't really protect his assets. it's a little bit like with the baby-rocker thingy that appeared twice on the show. idea was good. but the people they'd have to work with seemed unreliable
I agree! I can barely watch the new ones now. They’re all woke eco products and the dragons can barely criticise them now we are in the days of feelings before facts. Never see any of these weird and wonderful pitches anymore sadly.
"GENERICLY" LOL... I CAN'T BELIEVE NOT ONE OF THEM SAID GENETICALLY UNTIL DEBRA FINALLY SAID IT...
He said generically, it wasn't a miss pronunciation. The dragons got it wrong.
@@jdmjesus6103 ANYONE WITH TWO EARS KNOWS YOU'RE WRONG
@@BostonPower anyone from Yorkshire knows you're wrong...
@@BostonPower also, do you seriously believe he genetically modified his own special species of... I really don't know, something that tastes like acorns? Instead of just growing acorns? The point was he used standard feedstocks in a blend that imitated acorns but using GENERIC ingredients.
Do you have any idea how many years and how many millions of Pounds it would cost to genetically engineer something like that? If it's even possible at all?!
They can't even bring the mammoth back and they have the dna for that. It's not like writing a computer program, you can't just say 'i want to make this' and then it's there. Genetic modification is done in small steps and nothing at all like what you're suggesting.
Engage your brain before you try to shoot someone down next time.
@@jdmjesus6103 TAKE YOUR PILLS
Apart from everything else, there’s one major thing Paul doesn’t seem to know. The Iberico pigs’ diet is part of its meat’s status as a protected regional product. Alter the diet in any way, and it no longer qualifies to be a source of that expensive meat. It’s not just ham (leg meat), by the way. The other cuts of the carcass, such as chops, belly, shoulder, etc, are also sold as Iberico pork. That meat isn’t that much more expensive than ordinary organic free range pork (so, not cheap), but the flavour and cooking qualities are far superior.
Acorns are a major seasonal part of its diet, but are actually the least of it. Most of its diet is the stuff that pigs will eat all year round - roots, vegetation, fungi, small insects, and small animals if they get too close. Any additional feed provided by the herd owner must consist only of those natural ingredients.
And, in order to protect this Spanish product, it is actually illegal to export this breed, and/or its genetic material from Spain. It can be done, but only under very specific and rigorous licensing terms.
So far, that’s only been allowed once. A farmer in the southern USA has been licensed, and was able to buy and import a small breeding herd. His land is full of the specific oak tree needed for the acorns. He has to feed them a specific and organic diet as part of his purchase contract. Then and only then can he sell the meat as Iberico, but he can’t use any of the other product descriptions as they are exclusive to the region of Spain the pigs come from.
If he breaches any of those contract terms, ownership of the pigs reverts to the Spanish government, and he will lose them without compensation. His farm is visited twice a year to a schedule, and several times a year at random by Spanish government officials, at his expense, to ensure that he’s in compliance. The contract was written and produced, and is enforceable, under the jurisdiction of state and federal law in the US as Spanish law wouldn’t apply there.
Thank you ❣️ for making the effort to tell us this vital information. I think because it's not in at the same time time as others it may not be seen and valued as it should be. I now realize that these animals and their meat are deeply respected cultural product. So important and heartwarming to know and understand over all the flippant superficial comments that are the usual on here. 😊🌺
@@wanderingalba5077 Thank you 😊😊😊!
@@Twittler1 That's incredibly interesting to read, Kevin. Many thanks for taking the time to type it all.
The dragons could sense this guys mind is too innocent for the business world.
Dragons: "I want to give him a hug...ANd possibly steal his wallet"...
Sense? This man just said his protection for the recipe is that it's locked in a SAFE.
I think he is intoxicated.
@@jjthe13th no the dragons could sense.... The pig guy is innocent
@@Iburn247 I hear "sense" I think of something that is not obvious and takes some intuition to tell. Like when u get the SENSE that an entrepreneur is a con artist.
This is absolute GOLD. At least Pandora lives to fight another day...
Pandora's box was opened during this pitch indeed
How do you protect a recipe? It's in my solicitor's safe 🤣
I think I'll put my next business idea in my safe so it's protected
@chris brady I think KFC do a similar thing. Coca-Cola is probably not the first Cola and probably not seen as unique enough to patent, this guy's solicitor might have told him it would be difficult to patent his recipe.
"What protection do you have on the recipe?"
"It's in my solicitors safe".
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Duncan kills me this entire clip.. with the picard face palm in the first 10 seconds and then saying "that's a 100 pigs" lolol
He should've stated he was creating a pig feeding company.
That he will keep hidden in a safe in his lawyers office.
I actually think it's a clever business idea although the numbers needed adjustment and the amount of pigs to start with just a few. To go on Dragons Den takes a lot of courage and conviction.
The acorn-flavoured feed is only going to result in Pata Negra ham if it contains the same nutrients as acorn, the flavour is irrelevant.
From his description, it sounded like the feed has the same nutrient makeup. However, the pigs' digestive system would also need to process the feed in the same way as the acorns, ie everything from glucose levels to the pH and ratios of acids in the stomach. He didn't strike me as being particularly well-versed in biology sciences. However, I am going to make a point of locating a US retailer that sells this pork.
"Mucho grande" does not mean very expensive 🤣🤣🤣 It means very big. He invested based on a lose translation 🤣🤣🤣He could have tried using google translate.
Did this guy pop into a pub to calm his nerves before the pitch or is it just me?
Hes definitely been boozing
Jamón de pata negra de bellota (acorn fed) is something with a little romance behind it in Spain. Pigs are fed in the wild on acorns for a while before being strung up and quartered. But a genetically modified feed wouldn’t catch on, even if it worked and made financial sense. It’s just a bad idea.
Exactly, that why there lower tier "jamón" categories where pigs are fed with a mixture of fodder and acorn and just fodder
There could be a market if it results in ham which tastes the same as Pata Negra, sold at a cheaper price...but that can only happen if the pig fodder contains the same nutrients as the acorns, not by it tasting the same.
@@simonh6371 assuming is the fodder is what makes the pig takes great and not the climate, and active lifestyle.
@@ags5377 That as well of course. Meat or other products like eggs from ''free range'' animals is always higher quality.
The recipe is in his safe, guarded by robots, snipers and a pool of sharks with lasers on their heads
"You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have? "
Duncan’s eye roll, when Peter Jones says, “... maybe you’ve got something of substance ...” So funny! 🤣
Never mess with a pig farmer.
He looks like he would make people go missing
“2 groups of 50 pigs.....” “that’s 100 pigs.....”
(In Kevin Malone’s voice) Duncan’s a GENIUS!
Good piggy
I feel bad for the pig being in a cage while people eat his friend. :p
Maybe it was his enemy and that's why he's happily eating the straw while they eat his nemesis
@@chanchito4401 I hadn't noticed that but you must be right! What a dark undertone to the pitch. No wonder no one invested...
I hear the Pig that was eaten slept with the caged Pig's wife, that's why he ROFL.
@@saltydegen The plot thickens...
You should feel bad for the 99% of pigs living in factory farms with about 1/5 of the space.
5:58
Duncan: "Tell me exactly what you're gonna do with a 100 thousand pounds"
Paul: "What I'd like to do is, get two groups of 50 pigs"
Duncan: "That's a 100"
Paul: "Yes...a 100 pigs"
I don't know why...but it made me laugh :D
PATA NEGRA, NOT PATA NAGRA. AND THE TYPE OF MEAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT IS: JAMON IBERICO DE BELLOTA. Not dwindling at all.....
yumyumyum
He said the feed is dwindling not the pigs
Spat my afternoon coffee back in my cup laughing after he stated his recipe is protected, in his solicitors safe.
Nvm, gave me an excuse to make another freshly ground Espresso.
All's well that ends well
It’s the “expresso” for me 😂😂
@@emmvold Haha clearly I meant Espresso. Thanks Emma
😂😂
how many pigs did you "save" by brewing a fresh cup? 😅
He showed them a pig, gave them salami, told them he had IP (when he really didn't), and he ensured them that his secret acorn recipe was in a safe. And after all that, he still didn't get an investment. Geez. What does a guy need to do to get some money in this world?
pigs den 🤣
Lost me at "and I'm 49 years of age" !?!? Cue he close up 😅😅😅 Something tells me James Caan was out when he saw Pandora 🐷 🤣 Fair play to this guy, definitely something in the idea 👍🏻
There's something very likeable about Paul and his no holds barred honesty. I hope he's rich now.
I had scrambled egg, smoked salmon & toast for breakfast earlier.
Spam, bacon and tomato for me.
Egg just an egg boiled one ate in one go
Soft scrambled eggs, chocolate chip protein waffles
Chicken sandwich
Whisky for me
Still not got the sound mix right, I can still hear their voices over the music!
they recorded this off tv, they can't mix it.
Love how he shows a pig and then the camera immediately pans to Khan looking shocked. Don't worry Khan, its not going to eat you.
James's is pure class he could have played the religious card but he only eluded to it, sheer class, 👍
That's interesting here as on another occasion he said he couldn't invest for religious reasons. Can't remember what the product was may have been alcohol.
@@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv spot on Michael it was the one that was for investment in alcohol and yes he did bring up his faith that time, maybe because without pig's some countries could starve where as alcohol we could do with out although Michael i don't want to 👍but if life throws that curve ball, alcohol or a bacon butty, it's got to be the bacon.
I'm always surprised when people say he shows class, when he's a well documented dodgy guy. He's so 'silky' because he's a snake charmer - he's a snake and he charms people.
That said to be successful in business you need to be a snake charmer. So that's why he's rich and I'm on minimum wage.
Rob, he's such a classy guy he tried to buy a baby from the street for his sister.
Ah the classic reverse psychology trolling. Rob Marrin wants James to be bashed for his religion of course, so he feigns admiration and worded his comment carefully to get the replies he wants.
And right on cue, the brown Muslim gets bashed in the replies.
I'm living in Spain and can tell this would never work.
Because Franco is not alive.
I live in North Korea and can tell this would never work.
I live in England and can tell this would never work.
I live in India and can tell this would never work.
I live i n the U.S. and can tell you this will get an agricultural subsidy as long as the research is done in the home state of the Congressman asking for the money.
I 100% bullshitted my way through a swine farm business plan project in college cause I didn't understand a lick of that business class, and even I know this guys numbers are waaaaaaaaaaaay off
The music is so loud that Jenny's been drowned...out.
I think everyone should look to see if the pig is blinking and trying to communicate with us " Oink Oink, please help me and my friends get away from this mad man. He's become that obsessed with this revolutionary new recipe idea that he can't sleep unless he has a huge Acorn rectally inserted just before bedtime. Oink Oink"
They might laugh but I'm pretty sure Coca-Cola keep their recipe in a safe.
Mr. Krabs also keeps his in a safe
Absolutely. That's how you get IP protection for trade secrets. Not sure if it's the same in the UK but it likely is.
I hate being rude but is this guy a bit special? How could you possibly trust him to run this business, let alone give him 100k. He claims several things (like being organic or the protection) which are just lies. He brought the pig in and it's not the same pig. He gave out meat for tasting, but they are not investing in the farm... It's the seed.... Which he didn't even bring in!
This pitch is mad.
I agree. I am sure he maybe a nice guy in real life but just not competent to handle a business.
No, He's just from Yorkshire
I think the dragons realised in the moment that he may have been drunk. Duncan figures it out straight away and Deborah is nervous to say anything.
Yes & are the acorns disappearing? surely that’s the first thing to look into:)
Give him the 100k and he'd probably drink it all away at the local pub
It is a mystery just how a pig in a crate appears in front of them and the Dragon's don't notice !! :)
A kilogram of gold costs a lot more than £1500 lol
- What are these pigs?
- Lots big...
... said no Spaniard ever
49-years old??! 😱Paul, lay off the bottle, bro’. You look and sound at least 20 years older!
I was hoping I heard 59, but you confirmed it. Maybe he had a rough life? Maybe he is/was on cocaine. Cocaine is one hell of a drug.
Who knows...
just imagine this recipe went ahead and the pigs mutated into teenage mutant ninja pigs
Yea and they end up on your front porch , grabbing your ass and kicking it :p
Heroes in a mud pile, piggy power!
i was hoping a dragon would say the phrase "when pigs fly"
The pig salesman was the one who advised me to get 2 lots of 50 pigs. I don’t think he would suggest that unless I really needed that many.
Geez when he said he wanted to save a pig species, I didn't think he meant kill and eat them.
Some safes are uncrackable, even for a seasoned locksmith
LockPickingLawyer wants to know your location
2:03 "It equates to 180 million, 500 thousand pounds... per year."
Duncan: Aww ffs, here we go again.....
He's been a hard working builder, 49 and looks like he's been through the war's.
Working as a builder is very hard work
War's what?
This man is too honest for this world..
Debra: so you have no protection on this product
Man: none what so ever.
8.20 Theo , " theyve got no visible means of income" jdhdh 😭
So... Basically... These pigs like to feed on a specific acorn that gives their meat a nice distinct flavour thus giving their meat higher value on the market place. These acorn's... For whatever reason are becoming increasingly rare which in time will drastically reduce the pig meat value over time.
So.... This guy hired a lab to come up with an acorn substitute that had a similar taste and nutritional value of the real acorn and the lab that came up with this recipe suggested that he conducts a controlled experiment in which he would have 2 groups of 50 pigs (100).
The first group would feed on the natural acorn and the second group would feed on the lab created substitute and simply monitor the results over a period of... I would say at least 3 to 4 months.
After the data is collected and the meat tried and tested the results could then be shared with the pig farmers back in Spain and the market in general as to "save the pigs" or in other words allow them to retain their current market value....
Ok... I think I got it 😅😅
Poor Pandora 💗
Why was she even there and I hope she won't be a meal on someone's plate🌹
She's so cute and is so innocent to what her fate might be😥
5:09 *Deb* “How you do you protect a recipe?”
*Guy* It’s in a safe 😂
"Approximately £556.62 each"
This guy is straight out of one of Karl Pilkingtons stories.
There were a bloke 2 doors up called Paul oooh kept Spanish pigs n that.
Fed em acorns what he made.
"mucho grande" does not mean very expensive LMAO
Is the man making genetically modified acorns or is he making feed that tastes like acorns? I thought it was the latter but the Dragons were going on about the former.
The way he described it was confusing, particularly when he kept saying "generically". I assumed he was referring to genetic modification. I wonder whether he actually knows/understands the basis of this feed. The professors probably made it for him.
Background team “Guys that’s Jenny just off the blower saying that even though she’s not here she would also like to say she’s OUT!”
Dragons missed out on this one. He fed these acorns to Adebayo Akinfenwa and he's made a fortune off being his agent
😂😂
Bless him. He went in a supermarket, saw that that pigmeat is worth a lot of money and figured he‘d talk about „saving“ the pigs to make it sound good, didn’t have any savings of his own, so he just needs someone to get this going.
Idk whether to laugh or feel genuine pity coz it’s such a foolhardy idea.
this pitch was amazing and i hope this guy saved his pigs.
Poor guy was probably duped by a local who just saw an opportunity to lie to a tourist, and later by whoever sold him the idea of a super secret pig feed
He said: “None what so-ever”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The flow light guy has been redeemed by a recipe in a safe ..😂😂😂
"Mucho grande" apart from being grammatically incorrect (muy grande) means very big. Nothing to do with price. Poor man had too much sangría in Salamanca
This is the first episode I’ve rewatched in full straight away
This pitch was a fever dream
This isn't a business...it's not even a CHARITY...
They should have played the the tune from Deliverance when he pulled back the cover 🤣
squeal for me boy
"This is... Pandora"
The Dragons: *stunned*
Ok so let me get this straight, he wants to save these pigs so they still have this pork in the supermarkets to eat. Oh kayyyy. Sounds legit. I eat ham but damn I couldn't eat it in front of a pig
I had only seen the Harry and Paul sketches. After watching this, those sketches are even funnier, lol
He,s only 4 years older than me ,he looks like he,s had a hard life !
@James Cricket 😄👍
I know of a miracle pig that needs to be saved mentally - he's over 6 foot, weighs over 200lbs, walks on two legs, and oinks whenever a piglet thrives higher in life than him.... ;)
Please fix the audio if possible - in the last few videos the narrator's voice is drowned out by the background music. Besides those parts, it's fine. Thanks for uploading though.
It's part of the Dragon Dens lore. The never ending battle between the editor and the narrator.
@@SirPeterlll lol
The pig guy said "generically" when he meant "genetically."
This is the best Dragons den episode I've ever seen 😂😂😂😂
This guy missed a very important point. In Spain, to be able to sell "ibérico de bellota" (black Iberian pig fed with acorns) the pig needs to have eaten acorns. If it has eaten something else, then it doesn't qualify to get that certification, and consequently the selling price is lower.
So he is trying to sell premium pig food that probably isn't going to increase the selling price, because according to the labeling, it would be regularly fed Iberian pig.
Yh I guess it's the same as a heritage food in the UK
If what he's trying to do works, the selling price wouldnt necessarily be lower. He doesnt need to get the certification and call his pigs ibérico de bellota. He eh could call them regular iberian pigs that taste like ibérico de bellota. And then people would still pay more
La pata "niagara". LOL. Also, 1500 pounds for 7 kilos is absolutely NOT the price of gold. And mucho grande doesn't mean vey expensive either.
What a legend.
Could you turn the music up a bit?
This episode had a very "Dinner with Schmucks" like vibes. All rich folks were laughing inside at his expense humouring him all throughout the pitch.
It sounds like something you'd hear down the pub. 'We got these pigs...'
"The recipe is in a safe... classic IP, just like mailing a blueprint for a product that nobody has ever seen before, to yourself, AmIrIgHt?" 🤔😌😂😵🤣😅
I love when they colour coordinate their ties.
"I was advised to buy 2 sets of 50 pigs"
"Who advised you to buy 100 pigs?"
"The guy who sells the pigs"