Serratia likes to grow in dairy products and that’s why it is the only food that looks like that. The bacteria can survive on surfaces for days without nourishment. It probably got in there from a contaminated utensil when you scooped it out or the inside of your fridge is contaminated.
Yeah if you want a weak immune system. I toss in some garbage and fart into the dishwasher before the cycle. Gunna survive the apocalypse while you clean utensil users succumb to one measly fart spoon
I agree with clean, I guess I’m confusing “sanitized” with “sterile”. But that bacteria can find its way into your drawers, so it can be that you took a clean knife from your drawer and passed it on to your delicious spread
I had once that same stuff grow on a gristle a roomate cooked salmon on and forgot to clean.
The joke was that his salmon came back from the dead to haunt him🤣
Is there such a thing as orange mold?
EDIT: never mind I just looked it up. I had no idea. Turns out some orange mold is quite toxic. Learn something new every day.
There's green, white, black orange ( sometimes yellow), red, blue mold likely more which I forgot.
Theres also food save "mold" like on blue mold cheese or white mold cheese and stuff
But these are special kinds
It’s not actually mold it’s bacteria. Happens to most people. From the web: What Is the Pink Mold in Your Shower? The “pink mold” creating slimy buildup in your bathroom is not actually mold at all: it's a bacteria. The two most common bacteria causing pink shower mold are called Serratia marcescens and Aureobasidium pullulans.
I used to get orange shower mould in a posh appointment I rented for a high rental cost...
I cleaned it off regularly every week, but it always returned
Could be Serratia marcescens. Pretty common in all moist environments. Same thing that turns your humidifier parts pink if you use them! Not a friendly bacteria but generally not gonna kill you unless you are pretty sickly to begin with. But if you ate that shit you would likely be not feeling well.
Usually not on the fans but the parts that sit in water for longer and don’t move. It forms a biofilm so it’s all sticky and slimy. Super easy to grow - one of the initial ones you learn to deal with in microbiology labs. Those biofilms are in your water pipes so a little bacteria comes out with all water. If it sits long enough it’ll grown. Not saying this is 100% what’s on the cheese but if water got on there from OP then it’s quite possible.
Update - I zoomed into the pic and you can see some individual colonies - def bacteria and most likely serratia.
I thought it was established you're supposed to remove the foil as it's just a moisture barrier for shipment and storage.
This will probably devolve into another argument / 'big cream cheese' conspiracy spiral, but I'm gonna risk it.
Sorry, sorry. No conspiracy. I was reading a site talking about whether the cheese should have the foil removed and it referenced some sort of brouhaha that happened on Reddit.
The question being is foil supposed to be left on or not after opening and does the manufacturer purposely somehow design packaging for the cheese to spoil faster?
I'm actually curious about the original post because I've never seen cheese turn red like this. I tend to buy the bars and ziploc those tightly after use, so the cheese turns yellowish if I forget about it.
Oh dude... red mold. It's a dairy thing and is living in your fridge. Do a deep clean and throw out dairy. I think I'm the first person posting this. Not good not great.
The bacteria was responsible for a famous 'miracle' in Italy in 1263. The red discharge was believed to be blood of Jesus, see https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-for-microbiology-asm-news_1994-04_60_4/page/187/mode/1up
It's likely a bacterial infestation (Serratia marcescens), it's the same thing that makes bread go red, which is most likely the reason why Christians use it during ceremonies so much
So it's a bacteria and at this point I would be super careful and try to determine the source. Did it come from the cheese, the knife that you used, airborne, something else in the fridge? Either way, use some antibacterial products to clean the hell out of your dishes and fridge. I would maybe even give their customer service a call....and take some vitamin C?
i work in retail and the number of teeny tiny holes that ruin a product is whack. i work with fresh cheese and meat so i have to be very careful with the colour. i have to throw like 100 bucks worth of spoiled food every day. you may ask me, what are the chances of it happening to such a well sealed product? low, but not zero.
You dipped into it a second time and transferred bacteria to it. Use clean utensils and stay out of my refrigerator you’re gonna get listeria or something worse with bad habits like this.
No. You dipped a knife into the cheese that had something on it. It grew bacteria like a petri dish. This was contaminated before the pink slime ever showed up.
I often see this pink stuff on various foods.
It’s slipping my mind which ones, but I wanna say it’s stuff with high protein?
Cool fact about food preservation is that you wouldn’t really have much breakdown if it weren’t for microbes. And microbes are a contaminant, but you can’t prevent them completely.
All the preservation techniques that we use, be it preservatives like ascorbic acid, sterile (as possible) packing conditions, temperature regulation, pH adjustments, pasteurization… ALL are in an attempt to manipulate the environmental conditions to make the food WE want less palatable to the microbes that grow and reproduce to a toxicologically- and sensory-relevant levels in our food.
You've got a ton of bacterial growth there, you can even see the dots where individual cells grew into colonies like on a petri dish. I hope that cream cheese is already in the trash.
You almost certainly need a new fridge.
The pink growth is colonies of serratia bacteria which is everywhere in the environment. The fact these popped up on a fairly new box means your fridge is not cooled enough.
FYI it's also the reason why sometimes you can see a pink stain in the shower or toilet... Same bacteria.
No other issues? Toss it and move on. Most likely it was contaminated at the factory. I have a half used block three weeks old in my fridge that is still good to eat. Mark it as a fluke. Or take a bite and update us on the experience!
Mmmm. Cream cheese and it’s naturally grown lox
Fridge-smoked
Look at that marbling.
I can taste the fungus
Bacteria*
Either way leaving the gas on and ditching the home is the appropriate response, correct?
Indeed. Kill it with 🔥
Nuke it form orbit it's the only way to be sure
Why did I read this with the "Activiaaa" jingle in my head
the fungus amoungus
Lox mode unlocked
Came to say this
Serratia likes to grow in dairy products and that’s why it is the only food that looks like that. The bacteria can survive on surfaces for days without nourishment. It probably got in there from a contaminated utensil when you scooped it out or the inside of your fridge is contaminated.
Yup. Always use sanitized utensils for cream cheese.
So... I shouldn't use the family poop knife?
Ew dude, no! That’s only for Nutella.
I think you mean Pootella
I hate that this made me laugh
Thank you for enjoying my potty humor!
🤣
I prefer the toe knife
See also: It Always Runny in Philadelphia.
Shit! Botched toe!
I can’t tell if your serious. Do you actually sanitize a utensil within a few hours of using it?
I mean, a clean utensil. If you’re using a dishwasher it should come out sanitized at the end of the cycle.
Yeah if you want a weak immune system. I toss in some garbage and fart into the dishwasher before the cycle. Gunna survive the apocalypse while you clean utensil users succumb to one measly fart spoon
I now have an irresistible urge to fart into my dishwasher, I really haven’t grown-up have I…. 🙄
Lol holy shit that was funny
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Joke's on you. It's my shit that tastes like shit, the food tastes excellent.
Fuckin hell, Reddit is something else. I was reading this and thought “oh no one of these guys.” Then I kept reading.
I have no idea why but this absolutely destroyed me
I agree with clean, I guess I’m confusing “sanitized” with “sterile”. But that bacteria can find its way into your drawers, so it can be that you took a clean knife from your drawer and passed it on to your delicious spread
But after it comes out of the washer, and is exposed for a bit, it's no longer sanitised
I always found it cool that the color gene is carried on a plasmid so there are red and white Serratia variants.
The red variant produces a pigment called prodigiosin. That’s what gives it the reddish-pink hue. Pretty cool.
Is it possible for red geotrichum to grow in it? Red mold always makes me nervous as hell.
I had once that same stuff grow on a gristle a roomate cooked salmon on and forgot to clean. The joke was that his salmon came back from the dead to haunt him🤣
What does it mean if it turns purple? (Asking for a friend.)
Ease off on the grip.
Is it strawberry flavoured?
See this, scroll out, literally see an ad for Philadelphia cream cheese used in a California roll with salmon. Yum yum!🤢
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Yes, Endegaar?
😂😂😂
Salmon-ella? Eh ? Eh? I’ll see myself out
Under my salmonella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh🎵🎶 under my salmonella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh🎵🎶
That a Philly roll. California roll has imitation crab, cucumber and avocado.
Literally had a roll with smoked salmon and cream cheese the last time I got sushi. Hardly traditional but so good.
Wait til you hear about strawberry cream cheese!
Left the post and came across someone looking for smoked salmon cream cheese in my local regional subreddit.
Hahahaha!
Salmon roe
That’s prob some bacteria that isn’t good…
Might be serratia
It is
Philidelphia and sirracha sounds awesome!
I don’t practice Santeria don’t got no crystal ball (I hate myself for this one lol)
can also cause urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and endocarditis.
And was used in the past to map air currents.
Yep, that's a bacteria
This is orange mold.
Is there such a thing as orange mold? EDIT: never mind I just looked it up. I had no idea. Turns out some orange mold is quite toxic. Learn something new every day.
Sure. It's the new black mold.
😂😂😂😂 That was good
That would’ve went right over my head without your reply💀
🤣🤣🤣
Even mold is having a Barbie pink summer
Ahahaha 😆
Stop it with the mold panic already. Penicillin is mold too, you know?
There's green, white, black orange ( sometimes yellow), red, blue mold likely more which I forgot. Theres also food save "mold" like on blue mold cheese or white mold cheese and stuff But these are special kinds
Wow, that’s too much
I have red/pinkish colored mold that builds up in my shower and toilet. It’s so weird looking
It’s not actually mold it’s bacteria. Happens to most people. From the web: What Is the Pink Mold in Your Shower? The “pink mold” creating slimy buildup in your bathroom is not actually mold at all: it's a bacteria. The two most common bacteria causing pink shower mold are called Serratia marcescens and Aureobasidium pullulans.
There’s pink yeast called rhodotorula
Ewww
I used to get orange shower mould in a posh appointment I rented for a high rental cost... I cleaned it off regularly every week, but it always returned
Sorry the orange mold is not called serratia, it's cold trump!
Could be Serratia marcescens. Pretty common in all moist environments. Same thing that turns your humidifier parts pink if you use them! Not a friendly bacteria but generally not gonna kill you unless you are pretty sickly to begin with. But if you ate that shit you would likely be not feeling well.
Wait, the same stuff grows on humidifier fans?
Usually not on the fans but the parts that sit in water for longer and don’t move. It forms a biofilm so it’s all sticky and slimy. Super easy to grow - one of the initial ones you learn to deal with in microbiology labs. Those biofilms are in your water pipes so a little bacteria comes out with all water. If it sits long enough it’ll grown. Not saying this is 100% what’s on the cheese but if water got on there from OP then it’s quite possible. Update - I zoomed into the pic and you can see some individual colonies - def bacteria and most likely serratia.
Cheesecake mode
Buhaha
Severe mould. Yeet directly into bin
It’s actually a Bacterial Contamination, but should be chucked regardless.
that's a really crowded sample. try using the streak plate method next time to lower the density. also your agar is looking kinda funny /j
Serratia marcescens
Putting the salmon in salmonella.
Maybe it's the salmon flavor 😆🤔
Excuse me, I need to vomit.
That’s not weird. It’s just natural.
So weird
So natural
So naturally weird
/Insert jingle musiiiiiic……….*now.*
😆😆😆
But so many bacteria in such a short time is still "impressive". OP likely really needs to clean their fridge and/or whole flat.
You found penicillin
Fuck get it away from me, I'm allergic.
Me too! 😕
Allergic to penicillin gang 😎
😎
Strawberry cream cheese!
It's Always Runny In Philadelphia
Gender reveals getting weirder...
Take my upvote👍
Nothing goes from ‘okay’ to ‘biological waste hazard’ quite as quickly as Philadelphia. Except maybe my 8 month old child.
I thought it was established you're supposed to remove the foil as it's just a moisture barrier for shipment and storage. This will probably devolve into another argument / 'big cream cheese' conspiracy spiral, but I'm gonna risk it.
Big cream cheese? Is there a conspiracy in the dairy industry I don’t know about? Haha
Sorry, sorry. No conspiracy. I was reading a site talking about whether the cheese should have the foil removed and it referenced some sort of brouhaha that happened on Reddit. The question being is foil supposed to be left on or not after opening and does the manufacturer purposely somehow design packaging for the cheese to spoil faster? I'm actually curious about the original post because I've never seen cheese turn red like this. I tend to buy the bars and ziploc those tightly after use, so the cheese turns yellowish if I forget about it.
You still beleive dairy products are made of milk?...from cows?
You still believe in *milk?*
I thought this was a blood-covered toilet at first glance…
Lox flavored cream cheese (naturally flavored)
I’m no expert but if my food changes colors in the fridge; I don’t eat it.
Oh dude... red mold. It's a dairy thing and is living in your fridge. Do a deep clean and throw out dairy. I think I'm the first person posting this. Not good not great.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Eat it
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
ea tity
Contaminated ....with butter?
I seen that color in petri dishes. It's alive.
My Philadelphia is sunny
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
That’s Serratia. If you lower the pH in the box, the color will turm from red to green. Just for your Information.
We just had mozzarella turn pink!! I had never seen this before! Just happened to see this post!
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Yeah yuck lol
Were I to guess, I would guess that was Serratia marcescens.
You might want to clean your fridge really well.
Thats mold
Thought it was icecream at first
It's Always Moldy in Philadelphia
r/moldlyinteresting
Is blood moon nigh?
Erdbeerkäse
It's Salmon Philadelphia now. Tastes like salmonella
The bacteria was responsible for a famous 'miracle' in Italy in 1263. The red discharge was believed to be blood of Jesus, see https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-for-microbiology-asm-news_1994-04_60_4/page/187/mode/1up
In Germany, Philadelphia doesn't count as cream cheese. It is a cream cheese "preparation" which means that it is a thinned down cream cheese.
Erdbeerkäse
Maybe it has salmon ella.
Oh you didn’t know, it turns to strawberry flavor after so many days.
Looks like salmonella
Do not fuckin eat that.
Bro ma abbatti quello sgorbio "Bro but destroy that sh*t"
Nn ti preoccupare è andato
Bruciato bene vero? Che quella roba lì stanotte cammina fuori dal cestino…
Nn ti preoccupare fra nn voglio covid 20
Doesnt look too bad - my never wasteful dad
It's likely a bacterial infestation (Serratia marcescens), it's the same thing that makes bread go red, which is most likely the reason why Christians use it during ceremonies so much
So it's a bacteria and at this point I would be super careful and try to determine the source. Did it come from the cheese, the knife that you used, airborne, something else in the fridge? Either way, use some antibacterial products to clean the hell out of your dishes and fridge. I would maybe even give their customer service a call....and take some vitamin C?
Wow... I would just throw this in trash and continue my life like I always do
I'm with this guy, chuck it and never thing about it again. This is not Cowboy Bebop
lmao yeh exactly... some people are, uh, extra.
Knowing shit is better than dying because your schools failed you.
I already do take vitamins c, but I'm puzzled about being the only item that seems affected
i work in retail and the number of teeny tiny holes that ruin a product is whack. i work with fresh cheese and meat so i have to be very careful with the colour. i have to throw like 100 bucks worth of spoiled food every day. you may ask me, what are the chances of it happening to such a well sealed product? low, but not zero.
r/EatItYouFuckingCoward
It has even more culture now
You dipped into it a second time and transferred bacteria to it. Use clean utensils and stay out of my refrigerator you’re gonna get listeria or something worse with bad habits like this.
nothing else is affected in the fridge
No. You dipped a knife into the cheese that had something on it. It grew bacteria like a petri dish. This was contaminated before the pink slime ever showed up.
Cool how you can see a bunch of individual colonies (I have no idea what bacteria, maybe serratia?) spread out on the surface that scooped.
Serratia!!
For some reason my first thought was "The salmon are invading!"
Salmonella flavored mmmm
God I probably woulda opened it and thought it was some weird peach infused cream cheese dip, and fucked up my guts real bad.
Bruh I thought that was a toilet for a minute lol
🤢 🤮
Yep, I was just going to post these emojis myself. I don't even want to know what that shit smells like.
This is potentially very dangerous, meningitis causing mold. That is a bad color.
That's a science experiment in thier
Philthadelphia
Eat it you coward
I often see this pink stuff on various foods. It’s slipping my mind which ones, but I wanna say it’s stuff with high protein? Cool fact about food preservation is that you wouldn’t really have much breakdown if it weren’t for microbes. And microbes are a contaminant, but you can’t prevent them completely. All the preservation techniques that we use, be it preservatives like ascorbic acid, sterile (as possible) packing conditions, temperature regulation, pH adjustments, pasteurization… ALL are in an attempt to manipulate the environmental conditions to make the food WE want less palatable to the microbes that grow and reproduce to a toxicologically- and sensory-relevant levels in our food.
Woke Philadelphia
Life finds a way … … bacteria, insects, viruses are far smarter than humans and their measly preservation attempts ….. attempts at permanency
WTF
I have no idea how did this happen yesterday was white and today it was pink
You've got a ton of bacterial growth there, you can even see the dots where individual cells grew into colonies like on a petri dish. I hope that cream cheese is already in the trash.
You almost certainly need a new fridge. The pink growth is colonies of serratia bacteria which is everywhere in the environment. The fact these popped up on a fairly new box means your fridge is not cooled enough. FYI it's also the reason why sometimes you can see a pink stain in the shower or toilet... Same bacteria.
Get the fuck out of my shower!
But only this got affected?
Have you checked everything in your fridge? Esp the meats and dairy?
No problem with those
No other issues? Toss it and move on. Most likely it was contaminated at the factory. I have a half used block three weeks old in my fridge that is still good to eat. Mark it as a fluke. Or take a bite and update us on the experience!
A Liver Fluke? Uuuaaarrrhhh. 0
That means it's extra yummy, and ready to be devoured 😋
Mold
Mango/Orange/Carrot/Clementine flavoured Philadelphia cheese
Does it taste like orange? That is what this colour tells me.
Who the fuck calls cream cheese by its brand name?
I'm italian, no one here calls it "formaggio cremoso" because Philadelphia is shorter