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Do YOU believe in the three second rule? Scientists reveal ...
DailyMail ^
| 3 May 2012
| Nicky Harley
Posted on 05/03/2012 7:13:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
Who hasn't picked up a piece of dropped food from the floor, given it a quick blow and assumed it was still safe to eat?
To many of us, it is second nature to apply the age-old pseudo-scientific 'three second rule' on such occasions, telling ourselves we're safe if the food hit the floor only momentarily.
The idea that food is not contaminated if it is retrieved quickly has been believed for many years - but there has not been extensive proof that this is the case.
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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 3secondrule; contaminatedfood; food; safefood; superstition
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Full Title: Do YOU believe in the three second rule? Scientists reveal whether food dropped on the floor is safe to eat (if it's picked up quickly enough)
If you have a Lab....there is no such thing as a 3 sec rule.
To: Daffynition
Especially if you drop a rock.....:)
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:17:37 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
To: Daffynition
The 3 second rule is fine. The old 5 second rule was absolutely disgusting.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:21:13 PM PDT
by
rsobin
To: Salamander
LOL...especially! Most objects are caught in mid-air...great reflexes that one.
ANYthing is fair game.
ANYthing.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:24:23 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Salamander
LOL...especially!
Most objects are caught in mid-air...great reflexes that one.
ANYthing is fair game. ANYthing.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:24:49 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Lab? Try a beagle, I think that is how they calculated nano-seconds.
Can’t figure out how to post pictures.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:25:30 PM PDT
by
RGF
To: Daffynition
A study of the “5 second rule” received an IgNobel Prize:
http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004
PUBLIC HEALTH: Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it’s safe to eat food that’s been dropped on the floor.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:26:00 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: Daffynition
He’s into celery now?
LOL
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:27:40 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
To: RGF
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:28:02 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
I never thought people really believed that. I thought people just said it as a joke because they didn’t care if there were a few pieces of dirt now stuck to the food. Seriously, people really thought nothing would stick if it was picked up quickly?
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:29:32 PM PDT
by
cantfindagoodscreenname
(I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
To: Salamander
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:33:24 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: cantfindagoodscreenname
We live in such a super-sensitive to germs society...we been taught to think everything must be sanitized.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:36:48 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
At least they’re good for him.......:)
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:38:34 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
To: Daffynition
For collegiate wrestlers that’s a 10 second rule.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:49:29 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: Daffynition
I have two Black Labs. Nothing hits the floor in my house.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:50:50 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: Daffynition
A young nurse gave me hell for not making people bath in sanitizer when they visited me and my first. I was actually brought to tears by her anti-germ diatribe. An older nurse set me straight and told me I had nothing to fear. My kids have literally never been sick.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:51:48 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Daffynition
I pull up radishes tap the dirt off and eat them, Onions, Garlic same same ... I have eaten Apples off the ground, Oranges, Grapefruit, Cucumbers, Melons etc.
Anyone that has eaten a Raisin has eaten it far after the 3 second rule.
As my ol Survival Instructors used to tell me after I ask “Can I eat this?” their reply “Will it make a turd?”
gnight all
TT
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:52:34 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
To: Salamander; Daffynition
Hell, bowling balls were not even safe when Digger was around.
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:53:16 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
To: rsobin
We always called it the ‘ 30 second rule ‘ . My bad .
To: eastforker
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posted on
05/03/2012 7:54:28 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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