One lady took to TikTok whilst shopping at Dollar General after seeing that the Clover Valley Grated Parmesan Cheese had an unusual colour.
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That mentioned, one lady lately took to TikTok to question some funky-looking Parmesan cheese being offered at a Dollar General store. While Dollar General is classified as a discount store — and no longer a grocery retailer — that doesn’t imply consumers aren’t entitled to faithful quality. No one must really feel uneasy about the foods they're paying cash for.
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One lady was once disturbed after finding brown Parmesan cheese being bought at Dollar General.
TikTok consumer @novicedevice took to the platform to turn different shoppers what made her do a double take (and no longer in an effective way) whilst buying groceries at Dollar General.
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"Why is it brown?" she whispers as she choices up a bottle of Clover Valley Parmesan Cheese on a shelf at a Dollar General. For reference, the Clover Valley brand is exclusively offered at Dollar General.
"Parmesan is white and so is Romano [cheese]," she continues as she picks up another bottle from the emblem — Clover Valley Parmesan and Romano Grated Cheese — which has a identical unsettling brown hue.
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On Dollar General's site, each the Clover Valley Parmesan Grated Cheese and Clover Valley Parmesan and Romano Grated Cheese appear to be white in color.
Also seen in @novicedevice's video was Kraft's Grated Parmesan Cheese on the market, which did glance to be the normal colour. However, it price virtually a dollar greater than the Clover Valley cheeses.
Users took to the remark segment of @novicedevice's video to weigh in on the peculiar-looking Clover Valley cheese.
Many argued that Parmesan could not be preserved in a grated cheese form and that whatever used to be in those bottles was once now not cheese.
"Parmesan isn't shelf stable, that's sawdust," wrote one person.
Another stated: "Because that has zero percent real Parmigiano or Romano. It's all wood pulp — it’s just showing its true colors."
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Meanwhile, one consumer who claimed to be a Dollar General employee also had some ideas, writing, "Definitely check the dates [on] the Clover Valley [bottles]. I noticed [it] goes brown when expired."
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However, @novicedevice wrote back that she did test the dates on the bottles, and so they were not expired, which added even more mystery to the cheese's look.
One comment simply read: "Idk wtf people are consuming. I’d rather pay for the fresh s---."
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Meanwhile, some people argued that the proper color of Parmesan cheese is brown, which, well, is an web battle for some other day.
In conclusion, the Clover Valley grated cheese merchandise containing Parmesan had been brown and we nonetheless do not know why. We're informed via @novicedevice that they were not expired, and a glance on Dollar General's website shows that the cheese is meant to appear white.
Distractify reached out to Dollar General for comment.
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