Battle Creek | Under the Radar Michigan Full Episode

On this awesome episode of UTR, we're back in beautiful Battle Creek for a cool café with a conscience, a farm market with marketly more, and a place where you can land a great meal, literally. Heck, we'll even show you a place where kids laugh and learn, all at the same time. Get ready to explore the cool people, places, and things that make Battle Creek so solid.
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[@jonahplays2635]

Thank you for highlighting my hometown! It really is a diamond in the rough, so much to do that goes unnoticed!

[@ryantrout7642]

Just because its your hometown dont mean anything kid! How many shootings are there in battle creek? Its no diamond in the rough.. Its been nothing but havoc,. Not to mention Calhoun county court house let 2 murderers walk free after my brother was stabbed to death !!! You call that justice kid?!!!! There will never be justice for anything or anyone in battle crack, get educated bud!!!!

[@ChrisMorse-v9h]

Grew up in 80s, Kalamazoo mi, however always spent our free time at battle Creek air zoo, binder park , museums and there YMCA was better than Kalamazoo.😊

[@redwatch1100]

Not a diamond. More like coal.

[@waxandwayne]

I lived/worked in NYC for a long time. Horrock's reminds me of the variety of vegetables I could buy at different stores in my Brooklyn neighborhood. But it's all under one roof at Horrock's. I live in BC now and I love shopping there.

[@sayingthisaboutthat1046]

I was born and grew up there. Sad that the crime rate is 80% higher than any city large or small in the USA

[@kdcbattlecreek]

😮 I live here and didn't know about some of this.

[@the_amandatastic]

Unfortunately Waco Kitchen shut down with no warning in spring 2024. Very sad for the employees who were given no notice. It really was a cool place to go.

[@kdcbattlecreek]

Thanks. I haven't been downtown in years and got excited. Just saw this show.

[@and4665]

Unfortunately i don't see any of that. I live in Battle Creek The city is struggling to come back. It no longer cereal city but pot city. The danger of Battle Creek is drugs, violence, trafficking. All the events and gathering is downtown plus it's never announced you have to have Facebook. Transportation is almost none existing. No cab services, Uber and Lyft is scary and city bus only run Mon to Friday 6 a.m to 3.:30 p.m with a hour break. Downtown lots of bars, coffee, one bank, dress shop and high end stores. Good luck visiting

[@redwatch1100]

There is no proper downtown. It sucks. Homeless and terrible potholed streets.

[@coterie_black]

Get rid of the ghetto trash.....they need to be tougher on crime

[@LowStyleMac]

I grew up here it ain’t all that

[@emelliott6820]

Beautiful Battle Creek river lol?!? It’s safe to say you’d probably find more bodies than fish. Also, if you live here, which I unfortunately do, everyone knows you don’t swim, float or come into contact at all with that river. It used to be that sometimes when you would step outside you’d get a whiff of fruity pebbles or poptarts, this was Probably the best thing BC had to offer but that no longer exists anymore. Now we get to play the guessing game “gunshot or firework”? 9 times out of 10 .. gunshots. Horrocks is cool, but pretty expensive. There’s no jobs, nothing to do, the crime is beyond controllable and is getting worse and worse every day that passes and most of the people are very rude and have this sense of entitlement that they don’t deserve. The mustache society has done a lot for the town but it’s hard probably to keep that momentum when it’s constantly being drug through the mud, trashed, damaged, stolen or broken entirely .. This portray on Battle Creek is really misleading .. to the fullest extent to be honest.

[@i-6820]

I used to live there. What’s the mustache society? I’m so sorry it went so bad. This guys sure made it look grand! I was curious how it was there now. Thanks for your frank remarks. I still have family there. And my kids (and now grandkids) went to lamora and graduated from bcc.

[@flathead1952]

Im sorry but when i read your info about battle Creek i had to laugh. I was born and raised in this violent nightmare of a place but your video only shows all the new upgrades of downtown there trying to make it look like a nice place but its definitely the opposite. I cant wait to move out of Michigan i allway hope that day will come soon

[@tcarlton6096]

Do you honestly think Battle Creek is the only city with drugs etc...please. When I visited home I can get the best chicken at Chicken Coop and love Sir Pizza!! Downtown is really growing again!!! I missed that hometown feeling. Sometime it's nice to live in a close community. My Father always told me there is no perfect place...but compared to the crazy traffic here in Tampa...I enjoyed my visits home in Battle Creek...❤

[@hawktuahnspitonthatjhon]

my dad works at waco not going to say his name but the waco kitchen has shut down because the chef wasnt running it right not going to get into it thou sad to see it go it was very good food ate there lots

[@That_tech_girl]

LOL. My Best friend got married in Sept 2004 at the Salvation Army that was in Downtown BC and our purses were stolen during the ceromony.

[@TheClassicReport101]

Do Kalamazoo next I feel it's a better vibe than battle creek

[@williamforrest4371]

Dude I've been here 14 years, I worked for 3 different companies ha ha only one company was worth working for but not there, my health went bad all this you are saying about battle creek I don't see what you are saying it has to much gov laziness control alot needs to be done to make battle creek what you say, Ghetto creek Mi

[@warrenschemmer1967]

I love your show but please don't put lipstick on a pigs ear...... BC is a dump... Horrocks is great. Took over an anchor sore in a dead mall..... BC is dead. Has not improved in 30 plus years. Kellogg's is not a community friendly company..... Very sad!

[@chrismcguffey4224]

THEY CHARGE FOR THE BRED BIZZARE NOW AND ARENT EVEN SHUTING DOWN THE STREET

[@gregw107]

A real shame to see “The Crick” sliding right down the crapper! 😢

[@ryantrout7642]

Battle creek is dying a slow death,.. There is really nothing there ,... And when he said its between Kalamazoo and Jackson, its between Kalamazoo and Marshall,.. I would never live in Battle creek way to many drugs and violence,. Sorry buddy you got it all wrong.

[@jonahplays2635]

I think you got it all wrong. While drugs and violence are a problem, that is due to the 'old guard' not investing in the city itself. In the last few years the city has really invested in itself and my generation knows it's up to us if we wanna see change. You can't just complain about it, you gotta be about it.