38 per cent of people admit to eating food that has fallen from their bowls Credit: Elena Elisseeva/Alamy
38 per cent of people admit to eating food that has fallen from their bowls Credit: Elena Elisseeva/Alamy
The five second rule does not apply to those of us who have a two second dog.
At my house, if you can beat the dog to it, it’s yours.
And 72% lie. We all know the 3 second rule is silly, but it’s a handy way to acknowledged that you indeed are going to eat floor food.
It is the germaphone clean freak lifestyle that leads to illness from a suppressed immune system. If you didn’t grow up getting dirty and eating questionable things that were on the ground (hello babies crawling around eating old cheerios in the couch cushions) we’d get sick at the drop of a hat.
Besides, global warming is going to kill us all anyway.
Surprised any of us who were born before 1960 survived as babies. /s
I thought this was a story about lousy NBA refs...
I don’t think anyone believes in the three second rule, we just pretend as we are not afraid of a little dirt or some germs. Now if our food dropped on the bathroom floor, or on the floor at someone’s house whose housekeeping we find somewhat lacking, it ain’t going in the mouth.
On my shop floor I contend that no bacteria exist there, but heaps of carcinogens.
You pays your money, you takes your chances.
As expected, hard foods, like a cracker, picked up less bacteria because it's hard, and had less physical contact area, and soft foods, like a slice of salami, had more bacteria by the nature of the contact.
IF E. coli and Salmonella exist where the food fell there is a possibility you will contact such. How did the E. coli and Salmonella happen to be on that spot?
I always went with the 2 second rule, because any slower than that and the dog already had it.