TIMMY: That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip - just take one dip and end it!
GEORGE: Well, I'm sorry, Timmy...but I don't dip that way.
Posted on 02/02/2008 5:55:41 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Double dipping? 'Seinfeld' was right
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Feb 1, 10:30 PM ET
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
"That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip!" George Costanza was admonished on the show after he dipped a chip twice at a wake. That's not too far off, said Clemson University professor Paul L. Dawson.
Last year the food microbiologist's undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater's mouth to the remaining dip sample.
"I was very surprised by the results," Dawson said in a telephone interview Thursday. "I thought there would be very minimal transfer. I didn't think we would be able to detect it."
The professor said the students' research didn't get into the risk behind such a bacteria transfer, but they got the idea.
"I like to say it's like kissing everybody at the party — if you're double dipping, you're putting some of your bacteria in that dip," Dawson said.
The results of the research are scheduled to be published in the journal Food Safety within the next six months, he said.
Double dipping is like kissing without the perks.
Dip once, and just END it.
Yes, and for our limp-wristed friends, “double dipping” involves something even more sinister.
TIMMY: That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip - just take one dip and end it!
GEORGE: Well, I'm sorry, Timmy...but I don't dip that way.
Well what about dip, bite, flip, and redip?
If you break the chip in two and dip separately, not only do you keep the dip clean, but all the calories fall out when you break the chip in half. At least, that’s how it works with cookies.
Single dip and chew with your mouth closed!
Another reason never to go to a party with Bill Clinton. Who knows where that mouth has been!
.. or his cigar!
“Got an SP DPing at the artichoke dip.”
“Swarm, swarm, swarm!”
never share dip in the first place
That is why there is a SPOON in the dip - put some on your little plate, pile up the chips on the side, and dip them as many times as you’d like.
The correct way to dip would be to use a small serving spoon and spoon out a small amount of the dip onto a small dish or into a small bowl. Then you can dip the chip anyway you would like.
He should’ve popped Costanza one in the jaw.
No doubt, I’d get a tetanus shot before stepping into the same room where that alley cat has been. He’s been spending a lot of time overseas, lord only knows what he’s gotten into over there, not that the Hollywood crowd is much cleaner (ever wonder why so many of them are so generous to AIDS charities?).
My son was about four years old when I took him with me to a diner for lunch one day. While I was paying the bill at the cashier's counter he noticed a small bowl of mints (obviously placed there for an after meal treat) with a spoon in the center. He promptly grabbed the spoon and maneuvered a few mints on to it and began moving the spoon and all towards his mouth. Just in time, I grabbed it away from him.
Heck, he was always taught to use the proper utensil when eating! With so many confusing rules, it's never easy being a kid. Or for that matter, a parent. LOL
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