--- title: Doughnut Rat is Next Pizza Rat: New York Subway Video description: Pizza rat has met its match canonical: https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-30T17:31:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:58.723Z og:title: You Already Know Pizza Rat. Now, Meet Doughnut Rat og:description: New York City's latest food-loving rodent og:url: https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/ 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: You Already Know Pizza Rat. Now, Meet Doughnut Rat twitter:description: New York City's latest food-loving rodent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Already Know Pizza Rat. Now, Meet Doughnut Rat ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 30, 2015 5:31 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 30, 2015 5:31 PM UTC Last month, a rat was [spotted](http://time.com/4043383/rat-pizza-slice-subway/) dragging a cheesy slice of pizza down the steps of a New York City subway station. He was known as Pizza Rat, and he became an instant Internet sensation. But there’s a new disgusting food-loving rodent in town. His name is Doughnut Rat. On Friday, YouTube user Dustin Sherman posted the above clip, which shows a large rat dragging a large doughnut around a downtown subway platform at 2:30 in the morning. You know, because New York is the city that never sleeps—and that includes its hungry rats. It’s unlikely that Doughnut Rat will become as iconic as Pizza Rat, but he’ll still be admired for his gumption. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/"},"headline":"You Already Know Pizza Rat. Now, Meet Doughnut Rat","datePublished":"2015-10-30T17:31:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:58.723Z","description":"New York City's latest food-loving rodent","url":"https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/","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/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/","name":"You Already Know Pizza Rat. Now, Meet Doughnut Rat"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4094627/doughnut-rat-new-york-city/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```