He’s loving it! Rat hauling an Egg McMuffin in its mouth is New York’s latest subway rodent star
- A rat was filmed Friday carrying an Egg McMuffin sandwich from McDonald’s in its mouth down a staircase into a subway station
- Clip shared by Twitter account Subway Creatures racked up over 5,000 views
- Friday’s rat is just the latest to gain viral fame after a rodent caught dragging a salad bowl along subway tracks went viral last month
A hungry rat carrying an uneaten McDonald’s Egg McMuffin in its mouth is New York City’s latest subway rodent star.
Video surfaced Friday morning showing a strong-willed rodent clambering down steep subway stairs with the giant muffin sandwich secured in its mouth.
It’s not clear what station the video was taken in but the rat appeared to have swiped the breakfast meal from the sidewalk and brought it down into the subway station to its burrow.
The clip, shared by the Twitter account Subway Creatures, was posted around 10am and has already racked up over 5,300 views.
A hungry rat carrying an uneaten McDonald’s Egg McMuffin in its mouth on Friday is New York City’s latest subway rodent star
Video surfaced Friday morning showing a strong-willed rodent clambering down steep subway stars with the giant muffin sandwich secured in its mouth. It’s not clear what station the video was taken in but the rat appeared to have swiped the breakfast meal from the sidewalk and brought it down into the subway station to its burrow
The video was shared Friday morning by the Twitter account Subway Creatures
Friday’s rodent is just the latest to gain viral fame after another rat caught dragging a salad bowl along subway tracks went viral last month and was dubbed ‘Arugula rat’.
Other rats caught dragging slices of pizza, a bagel, a donut and coffee cup have also shared internet fame after they were filmed by shocked train passengers carrying their heavy haul.
Egg McMuffin rat was praised on Twitter for his valiant efforts.
‘He deserves it,’ one user wrote.
‘Proving once again that subway rats are the size of otters!’ another account added.
‘Lookit this hard workin mom making sure she bring home a treat for her kids on this Friday morning. Bless,’ one animal lover commented.
‘Someone lost a whole breakfast sandwich. This is amazing,’ another fan added.
Salad Rat joins fellow social media stars storm Pizza Rat (left) and Bagel Rat (right)
Donut Rat (left) and Coffee Rat (right)
Video of ‘Arugula rat’ first emerged in February, showing the creature painstakingly drag the salad bowl through subway tracks.
‘Shout out to Salad Rat, stubbornly sticking w her New Years resolutions well into February,’ Sarah Peele tweeted as she posted the video on social media.
People took to Twitter praising the rodent’s perseverance to kick 2020 off in a healthy way.
‘Why can’t I be more like Salad Rat?’ one person tweeted along with a video of him eating a pizza slice.
Video of ‘Arugula rat’ first emerged in February, showing the creature painstakingly drag the salad bowl through subway tracks
‘Shout out to Salad Rat, stubbornly sticking w her New Years resolutions well into February,’ Sarah Peele tweeted as she posted the video on social media
People took to Twitter praising the rodent’s perseverance to kick 2020 off in a healthy way. ‘Why can’t I be more like Salad Rat?’ one person tweeted along with a video of him eating a pizza slice
Others voiced mock dismay that health fads have reached as far and wide as the rat’s humble abode of the city’s underground.
One Twitter user said: ‘God, even rats have to live up to unrealistic beauty standards.’
Another added that ‘Salad Rat just gentrified my neighborhood’.
The first rodent to take social media by storm for its larger than life appetite was Pizza Rat.
In September 2015, New Yorkers were amazed when footage emerged of it carrying an entire large slice of pizza down the steps of a subway station.
Despite the slice being bigger than it, the rat managed to drag it down several stairs before it was forced to admit defeat.