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Do you follow it? or do you use a different time, such as 3 seconds, 10 seconds, etc...?

For thos that don't know, 5 second rule is the ammount of time food is good when it falls to the floor. Poll coming!

I followed it before I got a dog that refuses to be house broken.
You can follow, I think.

I don't factor the time it's been on the floor, I factor how clean the floor is.

3 second for me, unless I know the surface is particularly disgusting.

I usually don't eat food that falls on the floor. I just give it to my brother and say that I'm being nice.

for me if my food falls on the floor, I don't eat it. You never know what people have been stepping before walking on it. Germs transfer instantly so the 3,5,10 second rule is moot..and potentially harmful.

for me if my food falls on the floor, I don't eat it. You never know what people have been stepping before walking on it. Germs transfer instantly so the 3,5,10 second rule is moot..and potentially harmful.
And yet for me, after eating my first floor dinner roughly 12 years ago (16 now), I have never gotten food poisoning, a stomach ache, or anything minor or major from eating dropped food.

Hell, I've eaten beef jerky that sat in my backpack for 4 months and it was fine. There was fuzz gray stuff, but it didn't taste bad and I never felt bad.

Do you follow it? or do you use a different time, such as 3 seconds, 10 seconds, etc...?

For thos that don't know, 5 second rule is the ammount of time food is good when it falls to the floor. Poll coming!

nope. I now rule the edibility of food by how much gunk it picks off and how much I can remove.

That's not a "rule" - it's an urban myth. Without any scientific basis whatsoever.

I don't factor the time it's been on the floor, I factor how clean the floor is.

QFT.

That's not a "rule" - it's an urban myth. Without any scientific basis whatsoever.
And also a myth busted by the Mythbusters. The petri dish samples they did changed my mind on it. If my food falls on the floor, it isn't going into my mouth.

at the share house i live at i won't even touch food if its fallen from the plate on to the counter so the floor is way out of the question ! :gundge:

Depending on how clean the floor is, but dropped food generally doesn't bother me (mind you, any x-second rule is stupid). I've been camping and had dirt in my food before, no big deal.

And yet for me, after eating my first floor dinner roughly 12 years ago (16 now), I have never gotten food poisoning, a stomach ache, or anything minor or major from eating dropped food.

Hell, I've eaten beef jerky that sat in my backpack for 4 months and it was fine. There was fuzz gray stuff, but it didn't taste bad and I never felt bad.

That certainly does not mean it can't ever happen. We don't always get a cold from people that have one...

And also a myth busted by the Mythbusters. The petri dish samples they did changed my mind on it. If my food falls on the floor, it isn't going into my mouth.

We also learn that a dog's mouth is cleaner than Adam Savage's mouth. :D

That certainly does not mean it can't ever happen. We don't always get a cold from people that have one...
Stop being such as sissy. :gundge: and man up.

It always amazes the unintentional hypocracy in many peoples eating habits. Like how people won't eat food that's fallen off the floor, but are perfectly willing to eat food without wearing protective gloves. Or that they won't shave their hair.

Also, I think it's current thought that the excess cleaniness of today's living has lead to an increase in allergies, because your immune system has nothing better to do.

Stop being such as sissy. :gundge: and man up.


LOL..kinda hard to do...:D

Stop being such as sissy. :gundge: and man up.

LOL, I like you.

It always amazes the unintentional hypocracy in many peoples eating habits. Like how people won't eat food that's fallen off the floor, but are perfectly willing to eat food without wearing protective gloves. Or that they won't shave their hair.

Also, I think it's current thought that the excess cleaniness of today's living has lead to an increase in allergies, because your immune system has nothing better to do.

Hot damn! I bet you are right! I was always inside as a kid, not being exposed to germs, and now i get sick real easily!

The five second rule fails. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVks)

It always amazes the unintentional hypocracy in many peoples eating habits. Like how people won't eat food that's fallen off the floor, but are perfectly willing to eat food without wearing protective gloves. Or that they won't shave their hair.



But you know where your hands have been (assuming you mean the eater using gloves).

The five second rule fails. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVks)

You phail!

So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!

Even if I'm at a sidewalk cafe!

In Calcutta!

The POOR section!

On New Years Morning during a soccer riot!

I don't think I'd go that far...but the floor doesn't bother me. :p

That certainly does not mean it can't ever happen. We don't always get a cold from people that have one...

No, he's just pointing out, I think, that people seem ridiculously paranoid about it; a point with which I sympathise. (Though I haven't gone so far as eating back-pack-fuzz-jerky.:p )

We also learn that a dog's mouth is cleaner than Adam Savage's mouth. :D
That doesn't really explain why you like kissing your dog on the mouth.

As for the 5 second rule:
5 seconds?
Is that all?
you anal retentives!
I once found two chocolates in my closet that been there 3 months. They literally had mould on them. I just scraped the green off and wolfed them down. Tasted kinda odd.

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Do you follow it? or do you use a different time, such as 3 seconds, 10 seconds, etc...?

For thos that don't know, 5 second rule is the ammount of time food is good when it falls to the floor. Poll coming!

The five second rule is WRONG!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_3%29#Episode_39_.E2.80.94_.22Chinese_Invasion_Alarm.22
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That's odd...I could have sworn there was more detail...

But basically it has nothing to do with time. Everything from the moisture in the food to how it lands to where it lands has to do with the bacteria, as there is no discernable difference between, say, two seconds on the floor and six seconds on the floor.

I'll usually eat food if it has fallen on the ground, but it does depend on what the food is & how clean the floor is.

I'd usually eat food if I dropped it on the floor, and so long as it's relatively clean, I don't care how long.

If possible, I typically wash off the dust - then eat it. If it's messier, then I don't. If the food is wholly solid and dry - and so remains, I often simply wipe it with my clothes.

My generally somewhat (but no more than so) slobby hygiene does no harm, and keeps my immune system up-to-scratch.

five second is for regular floor.

Give or take depending on the cleanliness of the floor.

never heard of it. it depends on what type of food and the cleanness of the floor though. if the food is wet and stuff sticks easily to it, i won't eat it, but if i see something dry (like a piece of bread for instance) falling on a clean ground, why not eat it?

Do you follow it? or do you use a different time, such as 3 seconds, 10 seconds, etc...?

For thos that don't know, 5 second rule is the ammount of time food is good when it falls to the floor. Poll coming!

Yep indeed we ultilise the 3 second rule in my house. Umm I mean me and my two boy children do, the wife just looks on in disgust!

Yep, and it's never harmed me. Even in my kitchen, which has a far from clean floor.

Yep, and it's never harmed me. Even in my kitchen, which has a far from clean floor.

honestly i think there are way worse things people eat without thinking about it. i once watched something about health-inspectors and i'd rather eat from a floor than eat the stuff produced in some of the fast-food restaurants they visited.

Yes I follow it as do many friends! If the 5 second rule counts out then the 10 second rule applies. If that clocks out then the 15 second rule applies. If that clocks out then you get the 20 second rule but anything after that is left.

I eat pizza the next afternoon after sitting on the counter from the evening before. I figure nothing there that microwaves cant kill. Plus i eat shit that falls on the floor all the time and never get sick. Unless i pick it up and it invariably has 3 cat hairs stuck to it. Then it gets a pass.

if it takes me longer than 5 secs to get it off the floor, then i didnt want it :p


:gundge:

Mythbusters busted the 5-second rule.

LOL, I like you.
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for me if my food falls on the floor, I don't eat it. You never know what people have been stepping before walking on it. Germs transfer instantly so the 3,5,10 second rule is moot..and potentially harmful.

Germs transfer instantly?

Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

Moi? Depending on the foodstuff and the state of the floor I'll either use the 3- or the 10-second rule. 5- isn't so popular where I am.

Depends entirely on what it falls on. Mostly I don't care about the sanitation of my food a great deal, I happily eat from others plates. Wouldn't eat it if it still had mud on it or fell in dog shit. I'm still alive so it can't be that dangerous.

It's the 10 second rule here. And it amuses me that people keep mentioning that it's largely bullshit. That kind of goes without saying.

But you know where your hands have been (assuming you mean the eater using gloves).http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2148501.stm

Most people aren't very vigorous in the cleaning of their fingernails.

http://www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/bacteria-and-viruses/02.html

There are more than six hundred thousand bacteria living on just one square inch of skin, and an average person has about a quarter of a pound of bacteria in and on his or her body at any given time. There are more microbes on a person's body than there are humans on Earth.
So unless you just, just washed your hands with an anti-bacterial wash it's likely that they are covered in bacteria.

Germs transfer instantly?

Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

Moi? Depending on the foodstuff and the state of the floor I'll either use the 3- or the 10-second rule. 5- isn't so popular where I am.

Perhaps so, but you should take a look at the findings of the Mythbusters crew. The amount of time makes no difference with the amount of bacteria that ends up on the foodstuff, be it two or six seconds. It's all to do with the other various differences in the foodstuffs, such as moisture content, surface area, where it fell, ect ect.

So in two seconds your foodstuff will be covered with bacteria of some sort. Of course, unless it was a toilet handle or the floor of, say, M5's work shop, you're probably fine anyway. I just don't eat anything that falls on the floor in my house because of the number of furry pets we have. Far too often it would be covered in fur.

I don't factor the time it's been on the floor, I factor how clean the floor is.

how clean the floor is and how wet the food is.


if i have to take a phone call while making breakfast and i come back to find that the cat has pushed a stack of dry toast onto my very clean floor, im eating it (the toast not the cat) no matter how long ive been away. scrambled eggs are going into the trash even if i watched them drop to the floor.

The only reason I throw stuck in the bin is if it's prepared food (hot or cold) that has picked up grit or some such stuff off the floor. The reason being that I don't want to chomp on some lovely grit.

There are several factors:
How sticky the food is.
How dirty the ground is.
How hungry I am.
If I was I the one that dropped it.

In the military I've dusted the grosser bits off my food and continued eating. Now, not so much. I have some standards.

And also a myth busted by the Mythbusters. The petri dish samples they did changed my mind on it. If my food falls on the floor, it isn't going into my mouth.
They should have tested the plates, table, and counter.

I thought the 5 second rule was "just the tip, just for 5 seconds"

If it falls on a dirty-looking floor, picked up something vile, or isn't the type of food that can be picked up with only one's fingers, then it doesn't get eaten if it falls on the floor.

Beyond that, I adhere to the 5-second rule.