If you have a Lab....there is no such thing as a 3 sec rule.
If you have a Lab....there is no such thing as a 3 sec rule.
Especially if you drop a rock.....:)
The 3 second rule is fine. The old 5 second rule was absolutely disgusting.
Lab? Try a beagle, I think that is how they calculated nano-seconds.
Can’t figure out how to post pictures.
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.
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?
For collegiate wrestlers that’s a 10 second rule.
I have two Black Labs. Nothing hits the floor in my house.
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?”
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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.]
...’60s, even.
I have 2 Labs. The food doesn't even make it to the floor.
Usually
I won't eat anything until it has been on my floor for three years.
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.
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.
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.
I take a bite and one of the ears falls off intact. It landed on the still frozen chocolate side with the broken Ice Cream part sticking up. The chocolate has to be a quarter inch thick. It didn't crack when it hit the ground.
You bet your sweet a$$ that there was no way I was going to waste any part of that Five Dollar Ice Cream Bar. I reached down, wiped off the spot that hit the ground with my napkin and proceeded to eat it.
Even at my advanced age, I scooped it up in under three seconds. If my Wife was there, she would have knocked it out of my hand. Luckily I was sitting next to a friend of mine, who looked at me and just nodded his understanding, knowing as all men do that the three second rule is a universal truth. Wipe off the chunks and you are fine.
Women seem to have a different opinion however, at least the ones I have known in my 50 plus years.
BTW - That is the BEST Ice Cream Bar on God's green earth.
Ma always said that you have to eat a pound of dirt before you die...