Posted on 01/31/2008 8:39:46 AM PST by Froufrou
On Sunday, millions of Americans will be plopped in front of big screen TV’s watching the Super Bowl — and yes — stuffing their faces with chips, dip and anything else they can get their hands on.
So, this brings up the question -– is double dipping really that bad?
A new study by Clemson University set out to answer that exact question.
According to The New York Times, the study was inspired by an episode of Seinfeld, in which the character George Costanza is confronted at a funeral reception after dipping the same chip twice.
Clemson University food microbiologist Paul Dawson said he proposed the study to get undergraduate students involved in scientific research. A team of nine students had volunteers bite a wheat cracker and dip the cracker for three seconds into a tablespoon of dip, it was reported.
They repeated the process with new crackers, for a total of either three or six double dips per dip sample. The team then analyzed the remaining dip and counted the number of aerobic bacteria in it. The students found that on average, three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip, the Times reported.
"The way I would put it is, before you have some dip at a party, look around and ask yourself, 'would I be willing to kiss everyone here?' Because you don’t know who might be double-dipping, and those who do are sharing their saliva with you,” Dawson told the Times.
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Like many things, DD may not be controllable with constant surveillance.
I’ve been guilty of it too, more’s the pity. It isn’t something I thought about until I more or less quit eating that kind of thing.
The best cure is to probably slather dip onto crackers and ignore the chips. When you think about it, it has to be way more sanitary for the hostess, presumably with clean hands, to be the only one handling the food. Think of dirty hands grabbing the chips, taking too many, some falling back into the bowl...ewwwwwwww......
Really, you can use tongs, salad servers or really large spoons/ladles for serving chips.
Oy, I used to have a friend who made what seemed like 100’s of itty bitty finger sandwiches for every event. I mean, NO one makes finger sandwiches anymore, but this woman was queen of the Pineapple & Cream Cheese wedge.
~snorrfle!~ I guess even tortilla pinwheels are passe!
Honestly,
if it’s good, do it.....
One of the prettiest things I saw was a tiny round of bread topped with mayo, then a perfect round of ripe cherry tomato— then sprinkled with salt and pepper. The woman did dozens of these and they were fabulous.
Whaddya mean, no one makes finger sandwiches anymore? If I do, I’m UNfashionable? I make TONS of finger food for parties, and not so much dipping stuff. People don’t seem to miss it.
PS. If I want more dip to less chip (or for big chips) than a single dip allows me, I just break the chip in half before dipping. Problem solved!
Personally I love finger sandwiches. They did seem to pass as a trend around here for other things (wings, nachoes etc). But I remember 40 years ago helping make what seemed like a b’zillion of them for a cousin’s wedding.
You may as well lick a doorknob
So you might as well double-dip, everybody else is doing it and that way YOUR bacteria can party with everybody else’s bacteria.
Speaking of breaking chips. A minor pet peeve of mine is a really thick dip and then someone puts out chips so thin they would break in a bowl of feathers.
When a chip breaks off in the dip what do you do? Fish it out with fingers? Scoop out with another chip? Just leave it?
I make finger sandwiches at get togethers.
Maybe there should be a recipe exchange :)
Personally try the second option (Scoop out with another chip).
I would try to scoop it with another chip, or find a nearby spoon and dig out and put the (now-drenched) chip to the side somewhere.
I’m game!
Thanks, I feel better.
Works for me everytime. :)
Don't ever post something like this.
Cause you know someone will google it and come up with something like this...
I then searched frantically for another metal item that could satiate my developing tongue lust. I scrurried over to our entry area, got down on my hands and knees and began to lick the door knob. It was perfect - the metal was cool and firm, yet still supple and bulbous. As my licking grew more intense, my dog wanted to join in on the act. We then each took one half of the door knob, licking in unison, and together entering into a realm of ecstacy that can only be reached the brave few who lick metal objects. It’s difficult to transcribe the thoughts that went through my head during these moments, but it went something like this:“Lick, lick, lick, lick… Continue licking… This tastes so wonderful… Don’t stop licking… Lick faster… Lick, lick, lick…”
http://johnlarroquetteproject.com/archives/2004/07/12/dog-wisdom/
actually our old house had glass doorknobs, but I’m sure after reading this that there is someone out there with a taste for glass.
I won’t be using that line anymore....gagggggg
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