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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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Why, back in the old days, we all ate raw meat and never washed our hands. Before that, people ate crap, and it didn’t hurt ‘em a bit!
[Little poke at the recent resurgence of Malthusian propaganda there. Hygiene was far better in the ‘60.]
I have a beagle.
He is thisclose to breaking the sound barrier when the dinnerbell rings.
...’60s, even.
There is no 3 second rule in hospitals.
Sanitation matters.
I have 2 Labs. The food doesn't even make it to the floor.
looks like DirecTV and Hughes Net on the roof judging from the shadows.........
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I won't eat anything until it has been on my floor for three years.
Oh hell I got 3 dishes up there, use to do a little outlaw TV.
Mark
Idiots. The whole point of the three second rule is that it was never out of your sight. It works as well as you clean your floor. Of course, it probably fell where you were just standing, so in the best of situations, it’s not great.
Yeah, let’s not forget that dirty food is essential for kids’ health. If the kid doesn’t eat enough dirt, he gets allergies, more colds, and maybe even autism. I’d presume, however, that eating garden dirt is better than slight traces of what came in on your shoes.
Only if the floor is clean and dry and the object is dry (or lands dry side down like buttered toast). Maybe 5 seconds tops.
Focus.
Hey, if it can’t run away yet it is still edible; if it can run away always remember “Only Food Runs”.
Yes I live by these rules but I only fight my dogs when it is really yummy.
My wife thinks I am disgusting and wonders why I am still alive.
The longer the wait, the better our tolerance is reinforced.
Depends on where it falls.
Near the cove base where the wife sprays poison, nothing gets eaten. Center of the room is more safe, depending upon traffic patterns and how much gets trimmed off. Ice gets rinsed off.
I have a German Shepherd. He guards what I drop till I pick it up. He gets it if it take me more than 5 sec. ;)
“We live in such a super-sensitive to germs society...we been taught to think everything must be sanitized.”
People like that are the sickest people I know!
They catch everything because they have no imnune system!
Decades ago we had a lab that snatched apple cores out of the air without even standing up. (Of course, me and my brothers had pretty good aim.) We’d eat apples in the kitchen and then fire the cores at the dog laying in front of the fireplace down in the family room. She’d bite them right out of the air and swallow in one gulp.
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