Notice when he chooses to say "fattest town" and "unhealthiest town" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

him trying not to mention the words fat or fatty around the fats is amazing 😭

"Alright Reev" Has to be the best part of this video

Might open up a new takeaway there, absolute gold mine, cheers for the information

There was a lot of talk about prices but somehow the word 'poverty' never appeared in the video. Might be wrong but I'm pretty sure Blaenau Gwent is the most deprived local authority in Wales overall. There's a pretty linear relationship between poverty and obesity. Not to take individual agency away from anyone - your body is still your responsibility - but I wonder how much that gym costs. An economic barrier for some and a hurdle for plenty more (not that they're jumping hurdles eyyyoooooo gottem).

Cal I feel like you missed a big opportunity here to talk about the historic issues of the town/ local authority and why that has contributed to the current poor economic situation and the knock on effect on peoples health eg. Closure of the mines, lack of industry. Great vid but there’s so much more to it than fast food!

To make a point in defence of the Welsh Valleys (as a welshman) since the decline in the job roles in places like Ebbw vale, as like many Valley communities. Plus the decline in support for the people living in these towns and the rise of cheap and easy food venues which are normally much cheaper then the "healthy shops" which is what has caused the epidemic in places like Ebbw. Support is needed for these communities from the Welsh government with access to things like healthy start wales, job improvements and opportunities and a real world investment is needed here. The NHS have programs but the waiting list is 3 years plus for people who are suffering with obesity. 2-4 years waiting for drug programs. I hope that this helps to provide some context to the video, as it does highlight a major problem in wales.

I feel like every thing you investigated is applicable to every single small/medium sized town in the UK. Fast food deals in windows, lack of fruit and veg shops, fast food chains.. the list goes on. In terms of what makes Ebbw Vale the ‘unhealthiest’ probably links back to the 80s when the mines & other secondary sector industries closed down and there was a lack of investment into the town. This resulted in many towns like this, but Ebbw Vale being one of the worst effected, having a very low income population & a severe lack of opportunities. Unfortunately, this has continued into the 21st century and the result is what you see today - a population with a small town mindset, lack of education on healthy eating, and easy unhealthy options all around them. Not the populations fault, more so the macro impact of a lack of investment in the area.

News flash, this is everywhere in the UK. Not saying this to have a go at you for being out of touch but this is the reality of the UK, it's not all London and personal trainers and chefs etc. Alot of people in small towns which once relied on industry are now in tatters as the industry has dried up, less work for "low skilled" workers, poor transport etc leads to unemployment which means less money which means of course you're gonna get 4 pizzas for a quid over 4 oranges. Ultimately everyone is in charge of what they eat and how much they excersise but it's not by chance that the most unhealthy places are the most impoverished.

Well considering the fact that drugs and overeating both originate from anxiety and depression, it would be prudent to look at the socio-economic status and more importantly the study in detail the type of jobs most men there are engaged in, since, low paying labour jobs require husbands to be out of house all the time that leads to problems in marriage and affects the child in the house too.

Think this video missed the mark a bit…Came across a bit too London boys visit and laugh at a deprived Welsh town. Unfortunately this type of town is common across the whole of the UK & most people’s realities.

I feel like this could’ve been a really interesting way to investigate the privileges around being able to call yourself ‘healthy’. You mention the prices of fresh fruit and veg but failed to mention how most of this town are materially and culturally deprived. This is why we are seeing an epidemic of obesity caused by a lack of access and opportunity, something which the government fails to tackle in a multitude of towns and cities across the UK. I do actually really enjoy your content, I just feel you missed an opportunity here to explore the depth of this systemic issue. Oh and the BMI is a scientifically flawed form of measuring health (rather it focuses on generalised aesthetics at large)

There was a cool opportunity here to explore and highlight some of the systemic reasons why small, underfunded towns have an obesity problem, but the extent of the "investigation" was pretty underwhelming. There's a reason why there's only fast food places, there's a reason why the people in such rural areas are depressed and lazy, but most of the real factors were ignored and left the video feeling pretty surface level

"alright Reev" "ello mate"

what is this absolute bottom tier journalism haha two skinny lads from london visit iceland and farmfoods for the first time, wow!! so insightful and challenging questions asked. no mention of cost of living crisis and socioeconomics. the whole video couldve been 1 minute long, "why do you think this town is fat?" "Because theres a lack of healthy alternatives to fast and cheap food"

feels like calfreezy is just patronising the whole place and its people

As someone that lives in ebbw vale, it used to be thriving with loads of different jobs like the steel works. But since that closed we have been deserted

This was genuinely the most infuriating video to watch. Maybe you guys mean well, but it’s a bit of a slap in the face to hear you talk about the problem of obesity in the town without really considering why it’s such a problem. I know the prices of food were mentioned, but I think it’s important to note that Blaenau Gwent is one of the most deprived counties in the UK. Things like gym memberships are not necessarily financially accessible and most people are working long hours and don’t have the time to prepare nutritious meals frequently. I don’t think showing up and interviewing random people, then panning to overweight locals just going about their day, is the best way to approach the topic to be honest. It kind of screams entitlement.

finally an upload from the giraffe

i feel like this is just every seaside town that has been left dormant by government funding if you have nothing to do from day to day in a grey little town you either leave the town or turn to self soothing and thats why towns like this wont change until there are m ore opportunities for the youth

HELPPPP why is this MY town how embarrassing

Love this style of vid hopefully theres more to come.

Leading with ”do you agree with that” concerning a literal statistic is an interesting method of interviewing. Also going to Iceland and being surprised by the amount of frozen food is a weird one.

alternative title: i copy tyler oliveira, go to farmfoods and mock poor people (no research was made in the process of making this video)

Maybe you should look at the job prospects in the town before slatting it.

After watching the video and reading some of the comments, I reckon there is serious potential for a documentary here! The viewers clearly are intrigued by this town and there's so much more you can explore as mentioned by some comments (history of the town, poverty, jobs, etc). Obviously you probably have loads more video ideas but I think you should definitely go back there and take a deeper look at the issues

Missed the mark on this one mate. Should’ve delved more into why it’s overweight. Especially the history behind the mines/steel industry and now that’s dried up its deprived (leading to the epidemic)

Im originally from Ebbw Vale and it's so depressing I moved my life to Canada to start again. The one thing I do want to say is The mountain air pub is in another town called Tredegar not Ebbw Vale. Yes it seems depressing but the atmosphere is from the people who live there and I know this will cause an issue with those people. Anyone walking around the town in the middle of the day are people living off the government or construction workers. There are people that are my age (29) who saw the town for what it is and moved away for a better life. My family are still there but the only thing I miss about that place is being able to walk to the mountains. It's the fattest place in the UK because people will not educate themselves on how to live your life. Instead they scrape through school with little education and hang around car parks eating crap. Apart from that you can see the older generation are the bigger people and the younger people of the town actually go to the gym which is called planet fitness near Tredegar.

Obviously there will be rich/well off fat people, but it's obvious that there's a big link between poverty and obesity. Fresh fruit and veg costs more than a meal in pretty much every fast food place you went in, which is outrageous and makes it so difficult to eat healthy. Not only that though, from looking up the sports centre/gym you went in - memberships costs around £32 per month, that's an absolutely unthinkable price for those in poverty. If the money that goes into obesity NHS issues instead went towards lowering fresh food prices, gym prices, etc. then maybe most of this country wouldn't be so fat, thus wouldn't need to spend so much on health issues.

I don't live too far from here, got the Brecon Beacons national park (Bannau Brycheiniog) on your doorstep to get out there, even with the sh*t weather. Biggest issue we got is people attitude towards everything, the valleys are naturally pessimistic and we don't usually get positive things said about where we live so it just confirms this pessimistic attitude .

Hits close to home (literally). I live in the next valley over, and I can genuinely say I agree with everything that’s been said about the town. It’s almost exactly the same in a few of the smaller towns around too. Up here, it’s all becoming kebab shops, fast food, frozen foods, ready meals and the like.

this video should be a drinking game on if your gonna say fat to a skinny person and unhealthy to a larger person

You failed to mention people having access to a reliable job. Fresh food and healthy food is typically more expensive. I don’t think the working class can afford to eat as healthy as they’d want too. Fresh meat nowdays is over £5 a pack. People don’t have the money for that anymore. The government needs to help the uk farmers and make fresh food regularly available and more affordable.

Really like this style of video. Smashed it, Cal and Reev!

Great video, this was very interesting and informative

These types of videos slap Cal! love from NZ

One other thing I’ve noticed with fruits and vegetables(though I can’t say if it’s the case with Ebbw Vale) beyond being expensive and needing a tiny bit of work to cook is that they go off obscenely quickly making cooking more annoying and thus a frozen pizza more appealing.

Love this new format

£4 for a pizza meal deal? Veg and fruit costing £5.50 each??? WHAT??? I never thought this was possible except in America!

The clip of the old woman as you’re eating that mixed grill was weirdly hilarious.

Honestly Cal Props to you,,, some of the best content out there, idk no one does it like you,, always for a good cause!!!

i live in a town called bargoed which isnt too far from ebbw vale and sadly this is a common theme throughout the valleys and many small towns across the uk. i think the main reason people are lazy towards their lifestyle habits is because of the social deprivation in these areas. there is definitely an attitude of settling for less in these tight knit communities due to the poor work and social opportunities and so people have no real motivation to adopt a healthy lifestyle. its really sad that because of the closure of mines and many factories, there has almost been a death to the valleys, and now if you go to most welsh towns such as mine, there are virtually no shops or markets except takeaway places. It makes me so sad that the place i was born has no opportunities and that in order to make a decent life for myself, ill probably have to move out of the area. unfortunately many towns in the valleys are just ghost towns

Hey Freezy, i'm a kinda new viewer from Italy, love your content!

That's interesting to know. I never knew this about the Uk so thanks for this information.

I’m not from Ebbw Vale but have lived there for 12 months and i’m gutted I missed you and Reev😭😭🥺

it would have been interesting to see what it is like for people in terms of jobs, social class, job opportunities, education etc. As someone who grew up with not that much money, a young, single mum, depending on family for help etc, we always had to resort to cheep, unhealthy food as it wasn't a possibility for us to do a big healthy food shop. if you also take into account the rate of inflation, jobs and the wages given, it might change the perspective from people just being lazy or choosing to eat badly to this is what they have to resort to as there are not really many other options, if that is the case that is.

Another place to add to my trip in September.. the Mountain air mixed grill challenge!

I’ll be honest I just don’t think you have the critical range for this video. Discussions of poverty and obesity are so complex and if you can’t host that conversation yourself, you have the money to bring in experts for videos like this. Such a surface level video and so many better explorations of small towns out there. If you want to continue this format, I recommend you field some experts! Or stick to the snack tastings and expensive travel content 👍

This is quality, I live like 30 mins from ebbw vale. Nice to see you lot close to my town haha

love the new content style new for the uk scene keep it up

"fat boy" in the truck was class 🤣🤣

Nice to see Cal visit his mother...

Felt like a budget investigative documentary. I liked it a lot

Great initiative!

Awesome job casks.

I love seeing KZfaqrs mention each other like a crossover episode bc I’ve watched BeardMeatsFood and Cal for yearsss 😂

You don't realise how half the country lives, it's easy to say they have no ambition when you've had it easy, just because they aren't given the funding and opportunities doesn't mean they don't want better for their community, you just went to judge and laugh not to understand yet you guys have considerable influence, get out of your privileged bubble and try to help instead of just taking advantage, you just don't get it yet get scared when people joke, it is always others weakness that ruins it for the rest of us

I go to college in Ebbw Vale and live in Brynmawr, would have been interesting if you came over and seen the new development over here with all the new fast food places and shops where the town itself has basically died, leaving us to eventually end up like this

This is how it is in the USA and I agree with the women in the 2 shops, it's a fruit/veg vs frozen/processed price difference and the lack of knowledge or time with many on how to cook from scratch in our fast paced society.

i love these more chilled down videos!!

Taking the piss our off people from wales great content

I hope this video creates a positive change for the town, great video Cal (and Reev).

11:27 i think im in love

this is actually so patronising😭

you should ask the people what could be changed or what were their own experiences

As if Freezy and Reev were in Ebbw Vale 😂

Ebbw Vale and Newport use to be thriving then the mines and industry closed down so there now no work there and it's gone rough as anything

This really shines a light on a normal sized persons view of fat people. Ive been fat my whole life so i dont know the difference. But i can see how skinnier people judge people if there fat. Fat people are less than, and dont deserve respect or kindness. Thats how i feel maybe subconsciously thinner people feel towards them.

the mountain air isn’t even in ebbw vale lol

Hi Cal enjoyed the video, Maybe make a second part to this where you put on your social media’s that you are going to do a 5k around the town and that all are welcome. Maybe roping in the gym to get involved and help promote a more healthier lifestyle afterwards ?

That one girl doing friendly fire 😂😂😂

All linked to poverty really init

To be fair this is pretty much the same for most city/towns in the UK when it comes to the amount of fast food restaurants, frozen foods etc.. Walk into any town or city and majority of the shops will be things that sell fast food and processed food. No offence to the video but it’s making out as if this place is the only one that has these amounts of fast food shops by the way you’re reacting. The whole UK is like this when it comes to the amount of healthy places, shops and restaurants there are.

Love freezy! Getting Tyler Oliveria vibes from his title and thumbanil😂

To combat that problem the town or even the NHS or any combination thereof should start tiny house housing projects around the town arranged around permaculture gardens and greenhouses that house and employ the homeless and hopeless whilst growing fruit and veg (and nuts) that are send offered at super discount places throughout the town offering special deals on salads and fresh cooked veggie stews and soups and generally vegetarian cuisine with free small tasting servings limited to one per person which will hopefully encourage to poor and the greedy to walk from place to place getting their steps in. That is a great way to start.

4:52 > LOL the accent while mocking the man 😂

Yooo i like how you do this vid like tyler two of my fav KZfaqr doing documentary vid 😊

The most tory video of all time. The town probably has a problem as everyone is skint and can’t afford to buy good food cause they have to eat there houses… priorities for us regular people but you wouldn’t know about that. Poor flavour this video and left me quite angry

Thing is lads.. not everyone has the cash to eat well.. and when shite food is so cheap it's inevitable that they pile the weight on.. so town's just have no opportunities.. meanwhile you two spend £120+ on 2 meals and waste half of it. Wind your neck in if you didn't luck out with KZfaq you'd probably be eating £4 meal deals.

I never expected Freezy and Reed to end up in Ebbw Vale haha. Get to Merthyr Town lads

I’m from the place and 13:11 couldn’t say it any better.

If you fill a town with fast food places then what choice do they have??? Fruit and veg is so expensive. If all you can afford is a frozen pizza then I get it.

At least it still has a grocers. Looks like a nice shop too.

How's reev mocking this place when he's from Leicester

Buying takeaways and frozen meals are NOT cheaper than cooking. I can guarantee that 100%. If you learn how to cook with basic ingredients, not only is it cheaper it’s also a million times better for your body and mind. LEARN TO COOK EVERYBODY!

11:45 that guy on the right side just recording. Banger video !

Why are there 55 fast food places in such a small area? There should be a law against this and processed food in general. Like govt funding for people to open fruit & veges vendors, funds for local agriculture sector, bringing the price down for healthy foods and taxing the unhealthy ones especially these big companies. Both making healthy food less priced and processed food pricey will make it inconvenient for people to get take outs and eat processed food from marts.

Mountain Air is not even in Ebbw Vale 😂😂

Love this style of video. Definitely was not what I expected. This was so funny 😂 so brutally honest and British

Him pulling up to tredegar had me spinning

I’m born and bread in ebbw vale, couldn’t agree more with you!😅

Highly processed foods should have the same tax that cigarettes do otherwise nothing will ever change

Quality vid cal 👏

Reev getting pied for a handshake by the Dominos guy 😂

Louis Theroux better watch out Freezy is coming for his job 😂😂😂

There not many ways of earning money unless you work in a fast food chain, takeaway or construction

Mans tranna be the UK Tyler Oliveira, and I'm all for it go on freezy mi lad

That first shot of Ebbw Vale...is not Ebbw Vale

reev wiping his nose when cal said the they mention the drugs first

Youve just gone right out your way to shame a poverty struck town that used to thrive on the coal industry and try and make money off those who live here