How New York Feeds Its 8.8 Million Residents - NYC Revealed

New York City has the best food. But getting all that grub to New Yorkers is no easy task. Most of it comes from one critical point in the Bronx: the Hunts Point Distribution Center. Each year, 4.5 billion pounds of food makes its way to the city's restaurants, food stores and Bodegas.
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[@scottjohnson5415]

I lived in Manhattan for fifteen years. One thing I noticed is that dairy products expired more quickly than other cities I lived in. Probably due to insufficient cooling in dairy distribution trucks. I also found the quality of the meat wasn't as good as when I lived in the midwest. However, the seafood was AMAZING!

[@michaeljj3929]

gfy

[@__jonbud______________________]

Maybe the shellfish but I've had waaay better fresh fish in Hawaii and Mexico

[@Yo-ItsYo]

Dairy products shouldn't last long anyway .. if it lasts long, it has stuff added that has no business being added to food.

[@MrMlbfan6]

I work in hunts point , the meat moslty comes from the Midwest etc also the dairy .

[@aviefern]

I get it. I lived in Texas for 7 years, and I used to laugh when people talked about high-end steakhouses in NYC. There's no better beef in the US than in Texas.

[@mrpw1402]

Background music way too loud during the interviews

[@FinancialShinanigan]

If you were to eat at all the restaurants in NYC, it'll take you a really long time

[@HClbn]

And more than a trillion dollars

[@jamjardj1974]

I’m not that busy, I’ve got time.🤤🤣

[@HClbn]

@@jamjardj1974 should do a food vlogging channel

[@jamjardj1974]

@@HClbn 🤣

[@jtgd]

Your whole life

[@MAG320]

I got 6 years in nyc. I learned that time is money. Even 10 minutes can cost you a whole job, no cap. Sometimes you gotta travel 15 miles & you're still in the city just to shop at one store, buy FOOD or whatever. Most are not willing to leave the house tbh because certain places are far & you gotta sit on the train for 90mins to 2 hours. If you're not a new yorker, you would not understand.

[@edwardliu111]

I mean there's a lot of city dwellers who would understand xD

[@Dee-ye2dk]

I understand, but that’s the cost of living in a place like NYC.

[@luxuryhub1323]

it takes a lot of logistics a nd coordination to deliver food to new yorkers with all those traffic issues on a day to day basis , regardless we still millions of hungry people with nothing to eat

[@qmawpxvecxydiwixytvieowizhehsi]

Nah, it gets easy late in the night and in the early morning before 6 a.m.

[@nahor88]

@@qmawpxvecxydiwixytvieowizhehsi Totes; I love that I was able to get a shawarma wrap after midnight just a few mins from my AirBnb.

[@laurenconrad1799]

I’m a native New Yorker and I am loving this series. So is my dad. ❤

[@Tony-cp6vu]

I love this series on cheddar

[@innerbeauty9441]

Love the doc especially music editted in😁

[@SexyUndisputed2All]

That's great but next video how nyc and other big cities throw out still edible foods by the tons hourly

[@__jonbud______________________]

And imagine how many crabs that could feed in a vertical crab farm... Too bad that their water is kinda messed up.

[@elongatedshrew5902]

@@__jonbud______________________ why tf are you talking about vertical crab farms? that's the most random shit I've heard all week. don't get me wrong, I love crab, prob one of my favorite seafoods but that's really random and off topic.

[@__jonbud______________________]

@@elongatedshrew5902 the connection is a reduction in wasting still edible food by recycling it to crabs farms. What other kind of animal farm could fit in a city, eat most of the things people might throw out, and even use the abundant local salt water? Fresh crab, less distance for the trucks, and less wasted food.

[@elongatedshrew5902]

@@__jonbud______________________ I mean that's creative and possible but no one would spend the money to waste it on that when they aren't making anything

[@johnr797]

@@elongatedshrew5902 pretty sure he's talking about implementing more local and more efficient food production strategies, and that was just an example.

[@GoogolCompanyUS]

I’ve been to NYC a few times and there is street food around every corner and there is just more areas to buy food in Manhattan. I live by Chicago and in the city, I’ve noticed there wasn’t as much places to eat.

[@DB-ub3wx]

Loved this

[@SanchezS]

intresting tnks

[@johnr797]

"Have you ever thought about the question that the title of this video is an answer to?" You're not on the food network, cheddar, chill.

[@EndMii619]

its crazy because Hunts Point is the only place you’ll ever see like so many of the longer trucks while mostly in nyc you’d see trucks not as large

[@mancroft]

Having background noise that drowns out the commentary is not a very good idea. Especially for the hard of hearing.

[@aaronhow3932]

Very neat!! 😀

[@GeorgeDolbier]

I've been around the world twice, visited over 20 countries, been in every major city in north america. While the food in NYC is good... New York _does not_ have the best food. Portland, Seattle, Vancouver BC have better food hands down, and some of the best food anywhere I'v been in the world (yes Paris, Rome, even you). Not just top end restaurants, but even street carts to the most run down diner and chinese place. The water quality in the Pacific North West not only makes the cooking taste better, but is also used in irrigation. Also much of the food in the PNW is local, or produced in the california central valley.

[@whatweather]

20 countries is hardly “around the world”, but regardless, no one is making this a competition so you missed the whole point

[@__jonbud______________________]

@@whatweather just wanted to point out that you don't seem to have any frame of reference for the other 15 or more countries that Lupo is claiming to have visited. Furthermore, Lupo having visited every major city in North America and parts of Europe in itself is a significant portion of the world and indicates that (depending on how spaced out the remaining unnamed cities/countries are) Lupo may very well be justified as speaking from the perspective of having been "around the world" (twice, even). While Lupo's comment might not be directly related to the point of this video, it isn't entirely unrelated either. Having said that, what is *your* point? Just to be dismissive?

[@dj03]

Lupo grigio, are you Italian by any chance? your username means grey wolf in my language, that's neat! ^w^

[@madjanetramerez2383]

what makes it better in new york is, the foreign cuisine is actually made by the people of whom that cuisine originates.

[@BatCaveOz]

@@whatweather "Around The World" refers to an airline ticket that literally goes around the world. If one goes to a travel agent for an around the world ticket... there are two major decisions... which direction (East or West) and how many stops (typically between 3 and 7). You have missed the whole point.

[@poppydan6ix]

Can't wait to reach ny

[@tanjoy0205]

Next Ep:How NYC waste Disposal system Works .

[@erikomelin8832]

I believe they made that video already

[@rogerholloway7129]

can barely hear the interviews over your jazz music

[@mookie714]

Say it with me kids, Bo-Day-gas

[@cdw3088]

I swear this channel is obsessed with NYC 😕

[@nahor88]

When you're in NYC, it really does feel like the center of the world.

[@medinadamian]

The audio is so low

[@andrew20146]

400k sqft distribution centre is not all that large. Traditional markets maybe, but grocery chains often use distribution centres closer to 1m sqft. I know of one that handles 50 million lbs of food a week.

[@JayceeR]

bodega in the Philippines means warehouse btw...

[@KingAsa5]

This channel should be called “NY cheddar”

[@alyoooh]

Well the cheddar headquarters are in New York so it makes sense why there's so much new York content

[@Zed_Oud]

4:14 “New York Mayor Edward I. Koch joined U.S. Attorney *Rudolph Giuliani*, FBI official Thomas Sheer, and city Po- lice Commissioner Benjamin Ward in announcing the suit during a news con- ference at Giuliani's Manhattan offices.”

[@Brick-Life]

Lots of food!

[@r.d.9399]

I delivered food to supermarkets for a few months. Quit once I realized the pay wasn't worth the time and headache. Never doing it again.

[@mattstbe6452]

12:28 they literally just admitted they weren’t prepared 🤦‍♂️

[@Krispy416]

He said "This building is 400,000 square feet thats the Empire State Building on its side" Empire State building is 2.2 Million square feet.

[@dannydaw59]

Maybe they meant one side of the Empire State building is 400,000 sq.feet.

[@johnr797]

@@dannydaw59 A very useful comparison

[@blueoak5262]

NYC didn't feed me, I'm working poor but paying for every fk-ing thing and it's been that way throughout the pandemic too. I need some free food seriously.

[@ShidaiTaino]

Check out the local food banks

[@jonaspete]

Imagined the amount of feces!! It's complex.

[@marklapointe48]

The sound volume is really low on this video, and the background music too loud

[@1000bijen]

Bodega doesn't mean store, it means wine cellar

[@stevenortiz2452]

It’s called a chopped cheese because it’s a chopped up cheeseburger

[@prabhushankar8520]

Good.

[@TWOGUNTWO]

They all got the same pizza sauce delivery guy

[@johnr797]

Yeah but it's the NYC water in the crust that makes it so good (New Yorkers actually say and believe this).

[@donactdum6635]

Born and raised here and I fully could not give less of a fuck 😭

[@ryanpaynado4275]

woah

[@wei8280]

Old pictures/video showing back then food handler got a cigarette in their mouth as they handle food. Want some ashe with that fresh fish? Nice to see how food processing and cleanliness have evolved

[@RobertoCarlosM]

How much is binned? Not sold and trashed? We waste so, so much food.

[@TheNoerdy]

It's like they gave an AI a Wikipedia page and asked it to make a KZbin video. I expect this from some high school film student, not Cheddar...

[@toonpik7]

Is this channel called cheddar as a reference to nyc rats or what. Tokyo has like 3x the people and i don’t see videos on that.

[@robotword]

hard to hear the narration over the music

[@Stargate2077]

Why does NYC still have food insecurity? Why does NYC still have so few supermarkets?

[@thebackbencher666]

Fuck is food insecurity ? You mean the poors? Why does NY have the Poor peoples ?

[@thishandleisalreadytaken132]

Bodega means warehouse, not store.

[@evanrodriguez2470]

Nah it’s the ock stores

[@TechJolt3d]

Can't forget all the halal food. And no not just the "halal food" street food like gyros and lam over rice, but the other halal food too.

[@thebackbencher666]

Wait, you mean it doesn’t involve a faceless bureaucrat in a building like some Soviet commissar ?? Someone call AOC immediately!

[@Geknight]

👏👏

[@cometcourse381]

great video but the music is fucking annoying and entirely unnecessary. at the very least it could have been mixed lower.

[@robertsonleo4155]

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[@robertsonleo4155]

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[@ebonicalbert5711]

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[@philimonleo6195]

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[@thomasnorris7285]

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[@ebonicalbert5711]

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[@CashisKingtrucking]

Someone should send this to their mayor. And remind him that that food comes in on trucks. And if he keeps treating truck drivers like common criminals no truck drivers going to want to drive there and then people going to get hungry.

[@dannydaw59]

How is the mayor treating the delivery truck drivers like criminals?

[@Josh-ni3sw]

@@dannydaw59 Very good question.

[@Josh-ni3sw]

I would like to know as well. I haven't heard anything about this.

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

The best thing about New York for me was how easy it was to leave.

[@GeorgeDolbier]

Lol, worked for IBM for years, spent months in NYC in total over my time. I can not agree more.

[@__jonbud______________________]

Currently upstate also lived in Syracuse and in Rochester for a while; I agree too

[@zacharymeagor8675]

nobody fucking cares

[@godsongodson1675]

Who's forcing your broke ass to stay.

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

All that food turds into alotta dookie.

[@michaelnoel8936]

Your background music seems louder and more annoying than usual.

[@NamelessProducts]

Holy hell this channel is nothing but NYC and LA fanboy content. E: Lol This source was created with the intent of general education and news reporting. They've fully pivoted to 85% NYC 10% LA and 5% general education/news. New York City is the greatest city in the world, but I think the market is absolutely saturated with NYC content. When are your videos about Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Saint Louis etc. going to come out? All very important cities to the advancement of the United States.

[@Alpherix]

ikr, just crazily obsessed with them.

[@mrpw1402]

Yea it’s pretty cool! Love it

[@nofood1]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@shawnhall9792]

Okay?

[@__jonbud______________________]

Yeah. Seems kinda cheesy sometines

[@olwynskye417]

Less than 15 minutes to expl

[@thtb]

When you come back to this video, when america (and the world) is starving, remember that we could have prevented it all by taxing the billionares to only be billionares. A billion is 1 000 000 000 (or 1 000x Million). If you earn less then 100 000 $ /year some of your money got stolen by a billionare.

[@alphaapple1375]

#Cheddar, can you please switch to the metric system? I am from the United States, but the metric system is much more practical than U.S. customary system, because it is the international system of measurement used in around the globe. In addition, it is based on the decimal number: 10.

[@integre23]

Fifth

[@whatweather]

They really played the climate change card 🙄

[@richard09able]

How about New York stop exporting it’s trash to 5 other states? Smh

[@UtzoUuti]

first

[@integre23]

You must be lucky to get first on such a big channel!

[@paulag3392]

Nauseating

[@povertyspec9651]

Fun fact: Mass transit has never delivered a single loaf of bread to a grocery store.

[@mcfarofinha134]

True. But it has delivered the staff and the customers countless times

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Mass transit it how people get the food in the first place

[@gringa978]

Mass transit isn’t called mass transit…. It’s called the T… your clearly from Ma

[@cynthiajones4332]

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[@Pinozism]

Keep your beliefs off a video that has nothing to do with religion please! We’re not here to be preached to, we clicked on this video to learn about food.

[@stellarocquie7957]

Support legislation in NY S8351 and NJ A4122 to BAN COURT ORDERED RAPE .

[@almogaviv7302]

so many big meaningless numbers this is not good journalism

[@povertyspec9651]

Thanks to red states