Annoying thing about purchasing cyclopeeze..can't tell quality...(pics inside)

[samstersam]

I had a half used bar of frozen cyclopeeze...
and I decided to be preemptive and prepare so I bought another one from my LFS...

Look at the pics. The deeper red on is my half used (in freezer, ziplocked) and the brown one is the one I JUST bought. I even took it home in a thermos so I would minimize melting...



I open it up and its BROWN. It annoys me to think that I try so hard to maintain quality, not knowing how they were treated before I purchased them. They must have sat unrefrigerated for a while.

So purchasing cyclopeeze (or any frozen food for that matter) is a gamble, you don't know if there were problems in shipping, careless LFS etc.etc....

 

[funman1]

So brown is unusable?
I don't feed this, so I have no idea what I'm looking at..

 

[dots]

You are upset about it being a different color?

First off, find out why cyclopeeze are red to begin with......afterall it could just be a dye, or what they had been feeding the culture, which may even be better than what made them red before. Who knows, maybe your the first to get the SUPERDUPER cyclopeeze?

just because it is a different color does not necessarily indicate quality of the food, or its effectiveness.

Afterall, it does turn brown when it comes out the other end.

Sure, if you were buying this product for JUST the color, perhaps, and you are correct and wise to question this, but a better aproach I would think before jumping to an assumption like this I would ask, "Does it matter if it is not bright red?" or "What give cyclopeeze its red color"

Without those two bits of information and finding other factors that perhaps a 3rd party neglegence caused (ie:let it get warm and it oxidized), I don't think its fair to conclude that it is a lack of quality control at the manufacturing level yet. Do you?

Buying anything that you didn't personaly make yourself is a gamble and there is always a percentage of products made that are may be inperfect, but are not rejects that get sold. To make things "perfect" and "alike" 100% of the time would cause things to be 1000x more than you currently pay for them.

Heck, 200 years ago you had to go to a blacksmith to get a nut and a bolt..........that nut and that bolt only worked with each other and none other. There was no standard nor interchangebility. Now that was bad.....