In this 2020 YouTube video, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and his crew deliver six semi‑trucks filled with over $1 million worth of protein (meat and plant‑based alternatives) to multiple food banks across North Carolina during the early COVID‑19 pandemic. The team unloads roughly 170,000–300,000 servings of protein per location, highlighting the scarcity of meat, the surge in food‑insecurity, and the logistical effort of moving thousands of pallets of bacon, hot dogs, ham, sausage, and plant‑based burgers. Throughout the footage, crew members (Karl, Chris, Kay, Jenny, Jonathan, etc.) provide on‑camera commentary, jokes, and reactions to the massive haul. The video also serves as a fundraising pitch: partnered with Smithfield Foods and Feeding America, MrBeast launches the “Good Food Challenge,” asking viewers to donate $1 million so that for every dollar contributed, a serving of protein will be donated, aiming to replicate the million‑serving donation shown in the video. The narrative blends charitable impact, quantitative metrics (e.g., 180,000 children in NC at risk, 600,000 people nationally food‑insecure), and a call‑to‑action encouraging viewers to click the link and donate.
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Due to recent events, lots of people have started to hoard food. And when you hoard food, you donate less, which is why we filled 6 semi-trucks with over $1 million worth of food. Because now more than ever, food banks genuinely need our help. This 18-wheeler literally has 25 pallets full of food. So in this particular box, there are stacks of bacon. Did you say bacon? Yes, bacon.
Okay.
And we have thousands of boxes like this full of meat. So Jonathan, what's in these trucks?
You know, we've got bacon, sausage, ham, all of that center of the plate protein item.
Yeah.
It's really hard for the food banks and the clients that they serve to be able to obtain. So this is a game changer.
And we're gonna take 1 million servings and give them to food banks. Here we are at the Food Bank of Albemarle, and this is our first stop, and we're gonna unload 175,000 meals. And this is the first truck packed full of meat, and we're gonna unload everything in this here.
And boom.
As I said before, It's a truck full of meat. This is a pallet of hot dogs. It's literally 5,000 hot dogs.
Yeah, hot dogs!
Put your 5,000 wieners in the fridge.
Okay.
As you can see, there's a lot of empty space in this freezer. When we're done, this freezer is going to be full. How many people do you guys feed on a given day?
Oh my goodness, thousands.
Really? There's around 170,000 servings of protein in this truck. What does that make you feel?
It's fantastic.
2 weeks ago, meat was It was very scarce.
It was hard to find. Yeah, because of all the stuff going around.
Exactly right.
Thank you, brother. No problem. We're just trying to help.
This is so much food.
It's literally 170,000 servings of protein is what we're delivering here.
Oh my gosh. Woo! Yeah.
I just want to let you guys know, like, this is a necessary business. A lot of places are closing down, but like, what are they supposed to do? Just let people go hungry? Like, this is something that has to stay open. Can you just kind of tell us what they'll do and how many lives will You know, 166,000 portions of protein that are going to make a huge difference here just in northeastern North Carolina. Yeah.
We are just so grateful to you.
Thank you so much for helping people.
We really appreciate it.
As you can see, we dropped off 170,000 servings of protein to the next shelter.
Let's go!
If you were to fill the biggest NFL stadium to the brim, every single seat, there's enough food in this truck to feed all of them twice. What's this? Cherrywood smoked bacon.
This is small bacon.
Small bacon.
And that is applewood bacon. There's a lot of bacon.
These literally are stuffed to the brim full of food. And there's thousands of boxes. The point is there's a lot of food. Chris forklifted them.
My safety certification ran out a while back ago. Don't tell anybody, please. That's a fast boy.
I know, right?
Whoa.
Open sesame. You're welcome. Do not ride it like a horse. That is a no-no. Don't do that.
In a normal time, we know that there are just under 600,000 people who are food insecure, and about 1 in every 3 of those are children. Right now during the COVID outbreak and the pandemic, we worry about everybody really. You guys have been great to bring this donation in. It's going to impact a lot of people.
So far we have hit 3 different food banks, and since we started with 6 trucks, that means we have 3. Thank you for helping us deliver the food. You're welcome. Here's the thing, Chris, they probably didn't hear a single word she said, so I'm going to translate. She said subscribe to MrBeast. We are now here at the fourth food bay. And guess what we're going to do?
Give them food.
Here's the truck and here's Chris guiding them. Oh no. Oh, he's actually listening to you, Chris. We should go catch up with the truck. We got to offload it. What did you find?
He's still with us. As you can hear, this is on.
This one's on. Chris, is that one on?
No, the one named Chandler is currently not working.
Let's go deliver food. All right, you're good. You're good.
You're good.
This is my favorite part when it hits the patty.
And—
so soft.
Karl, come over here. Hi. I wanna see if you can open it. I'm in front of all these people right here. I'm so weak.
Everybody's judging you, Karl.
There we go. This is a pallet of plant-based burgers.
Nope. Ah! Ah! Yes!
I'm not as weak as you thought I was.
Yeah, baby! Let's go!
Do you even know where the freezer is? No. I don't know where we're going. All right, here we go.
Yeah!
Oh, it's so cold.
It hurts.
Plant-based meat done.
One wheel, one wheel. Heiney! Heiney!
Heiney bringing home the bacon.
Is that—
oh, it is bacon.
Nice.
I didn't know I wanted to see this until I just saw it.
He got it! He did it!
This man loves his job.
So what's on your pallet, Chris?
I've got plant-based burgers.
I got a pallet of bacon.
Yeah, but mine's good for the environment.
Mine's good for your taste buds.
Oh, I wonder if they've ever thought about turning the heat up in here. You're doing great. We're all really proud of you. Am I? Oh, all right.
Hey!
There it is, right? I'm not useless.
It's so cold, get me out of here. I'm skiing.
Did I do it right? Click the trigger forward.
Jack it real good.
Keep jacking, Tyler.
Is it on?
Yeah, now pull. Come on, Tyler, you're doing great. You're definitely not just sliding in place. I'm better than everyone.
Wow, look how easily you did it, Chris.
I'm so good.
Hey Chris, watch out.
Fender bender.
Hey man, I'm trying to deliver some food.
Hey, I'm trying to pick up some food.
Rock, paper, scissors goes first. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
I won.
Yeah, put some muscle into it, Jimmy. This is diced ham. You know what's better than diced ham? Steamed hams. What are you following me?
So cold.
And then we—
As you can see in the background, they're still offloading lots of pallets. And this here is Jenny, and she works here at the food bank. There's about 170,000 servings of protein. Could you just tell us how it will impact people's lives.
We have 1 in 7 people who are facing food insecurity, 1 in 5 kids. We distribute 38 tons of food every day.
We're grateful, so grateful. I'm glad we could help. Now I know this might seem repetitive because, you know, we've moved a lot of pallets in this video, but I want to remind you that these pallets have thousands upon thousands of servings of protein in them, and these are genuinely going to impact a lot of lives. And now that the truck is empty, that means we've taken care of 200,000— what are you doing?
I'm SpongeBob.
Well, go be SpongeBob over there. Okay, I'll see you at the next place. Chris, what's that in front of us?
That's a truck of food.
What's that behind us?
Truck of food.
Does that make us a sandwich?
I thought we were delivering food, but now we're the food.
And we're here in front of the food bank, and now we're gonna wait on the truck. Oh, and it's here! Look, there's a truck!
Look at that! Yeah, lots of food!
You're good.
You're good.
I don't think he listens to us. We are now at the last food bank of the video. Formation, let's go!
Yeah! My name Jeff.
So this is Kay. She's in charge here. Could you just tell us, you know, like, how have things been recently? Has all the recent stuff affected you guys in any way?
Demand for food is, I think, at an all-time high, and I've never seen anything quite like this. That makes today extra special, right?
Do you think a few hundred thousand servings of You think the protein would help?
I think protein helps all the time. We have about 188,000 children at risk of hunger. We have another 45,000 or 50,000 seniors.
We have a lot of veterans.
And a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck, and with them not having work at the moment, they're depending heavily on you.
They absolutely are, and protein is incredibly important all the time.
Chris, can you get it open?
I got it.
He did it!
Woo!
Before we start unloading that one, we brought you a surprise. We brought you another truck full of meat. Hey, 3, 2, 1. There we go. Pump it up faster.
Come on.
Yes!
I thought you guys were here to work. Carl, what happened?
We took isolation too far.
Wait, Carl, can you get out of this? I don't think so. All right, so Chris, does that make you want to—
No!
Carl is super ticklish.
To the freezer! Why is it so much heavier now? You're on top of it.
So I have 1,700 pounds of sliced bacon. What do you have?
I got 1,000 pounds of pepperoni.
Why is that funny? I don't know.
This is my tank.
It's my food tank. Stop!
My salami's stuck on the pole.
Mamma mia!
Oh wait, I figured it out. I used math.
Come here, bacon. Thank you. I was having trouble getting over the hump.
I'm legitimately stuck now.
I will always love you. You don't have to.
Ooh, betrayal!
Nerd!
That was so dangerous.
Chris, look down this truck. What do you see?
Walls.
This truck?
Walls and one pallet.
That is the last pallet. Go, go, go, go, go, go.
My precious little booty. All right, you just got tired, right? You didn't fall. And that's the last pallet.
All right, boys, to the freezers with our thousands of pounds of meat. Tyler, your meat's in the way. Just 4 bros carrying thousands of pounds of meat. Tyler, meat train. Brace yourself, Chris.
Oh, go Tyler!
3,000 pounds of meat. Oh, I'm losing it.
I'm losing it. We're losing it.
When we started, this entire freezer was empty. And look at it. Over 300,000 servings of protein in this location alone. 180,000 children in North Carolina don't know when their next meal is coming from. That is insane, because when you think about it across America, it like— I mean, it gets exponentially bigger, which is why we partnered with Smithfield to do something way bigger than this video. Because of Smithfield, we were able to give these food banks this 1 million servings of protein. It literally would not have been possible without them. Here's the thing, Smithfield does stuff like this all the time, but the thing is they can't do it on their own. So this is Jonathan, he manages a lot of their programs, and he's going to tell you how you guys can help.
That's right, Jimmy. So, you know, the, the issue with hunger is that it's something that affects It affects everyone. It's really something where we all need to get involved in order to address the solutions and really make ending hunger possible, especially at a time like this.
As we've heard from so many of these food banks, a lot of people are hoarding right now and they're just not giving as much.
And like, genuinely, like, they do need your help, which is why we're launching a challenge right now called the Good Food Challenge. We want to raise $1 million to support the Feeding America network of food banks across the country. If we hit $1 million, everything that we just did for this video of donating a million servings of protein, we'll do it again.
Let me get this straight. For every dollar they donate to Feeding America, you guys will donate 1 serving of protein.
That's right, we're gonna hit that 1 million.
Oh my gosh. Okay guys, you stepped up for Team Trees. We raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees. I really want you guys to step up here. This goal is much lower. We need to raise $1 million so they can donate 1 million servings of protein and then on top of that match it with another million servings of protein. So please click the link in the description, do it right now. If you wait till later, you might forget. Please, right now, go donate. A lot of people genuinely need your help. And I love you guys.
