--- title: Pizza Rat: Two Rats Fight Over Slice on Subway Tracks description: The struggle continues canonical: https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-09T14:28:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:47.490Z og:title: Now There's a Video of Two Rats Fighting Over Pizza og:description: Before, we just had Pizza Rat. Now we have two Fighting Pizza Rats og:url: https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Now There's a Video of Two Rats Fighting Over Pizza twitter:description: Before, we just had Pizza Rat. Now we have two Fighting Pizza Rats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Two Rats Fighting Each Other Over a Slice of Pizza is Peak New York City by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 9, 2015 2:28 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 9, 2015 2:28 PM UTC First, there was [Pizza Rat](http://time.com/4043383/rat-pizza-slice-subway/), who was so popular he was turned into a [sexy Halloween costume](http://time.com/4061722/sexy-pizza-rat-halloween-costume/). The original Pizza Rat video, as you probably recall, showed one rodent dragging a cheesy slice down the steps of a New York City subway station. But now, a new video has surfaced, and it shows _two_ rats fighting over a slice: Onlooker Jonathen Liu posted this obscene video on Instagram, where he declared, “I win today, interwebs.” The video raises some questions, though. Why was there a pristine, seemingly untouched slice of pizza lying on the subway tracks? Did Liu or someone else throw it down there with the hope of creating the next viral Pizza Rat video? Have these rats been trained to fight over pizza? WHO ARE THESE RATS WORKING FOR? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/"},"headline":"Two Rats Fighting Each Other Over a Slice of Pizza is Peak New York City","datePublished":"2015-10-09T14:28:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:47.490Z","description":"The struggle continues","url":"https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4067882/two-pizza-rats/","name":"Two Rats Fighting Each Other Over a Slice of Pizza is Peak New York City"}}]}] ```