Having just dropped some food on the floor, I picked it up and continued eating it. And then this brilliant idea came to me. New Thread!!!

Who here eats food off the floor?
Its food you dont want to waste it do you?

I always eat it no matter if its a dirty or clean floor. Most I do is blow on it or rub it on my clothes.

what is your recent obsession about whether people are hygenic or not...

what's next, a cover your mouth when you cough thread, or a do you brush your teeth everyday thread...

those are brilliant! if you dont start those i will!

oh...my....lordy lord....no. :lol: its wierd, cos i just said i'm not that into hand washing...but this to me is absolutly disgusting! i'd rather stick forks in my eyes than eat food from the floor!

the only time i eat food off the floor is if it's dry food. like, if i drop a potato chip, then i will most likely eat it but if i drop a peice of fruit or a blob of pudding or anything wet, then heck no i'm not eating it again!

i use the five second rule. Also it depends on where i am.

I dont always eat it. If iits like a drink or something of course i'm not going to slurp it up off the floor but if its like mashed potatoes, i'd pick the top parts off :)

...If iits like a drink or something of course i'm not going to slurp it up off the floor... why not? the floor can be just as dirty as a door handle but you don't seem to have a problem with that...

I never eat anything that falls on the floor, especially while at school. if I'm eating out somewhere... eww, how many college students have stepped there after walking all over the place, and if I have food in my room, even then it's iffy. even though the carpet is like 2 years old, there have still been plenty of people on it and who knows what the people that lived here last year did on it lol- so I ust never do :P

Today I spilled a whole box of junior mints on my van floor. My van is really dirty too. I did hesitate for a few seconds, but come on, I can't waste perfectly good junior mints! The sad thing was, i got a bit hungry a few hours later and went searching the van floor for some more. I found a few more since it was dark out when I dropped them.

It's chocolate, it's peppermint-- it's delicious!

sorry, I couldn't resist the Seinfeld reference. :P

why not? the floor can be just as dirty as a door handle but you don't seem to have a problem with that...

Its not that, I'm just too lazy to slurp it up. It takes too much time and effort and I'm lazy.

It's chocolate, it's peppermint-- it's delicious!

sorry, I couldn't resist the Seinfeld reference. :P


haha, I was so going to make that reference, but thought no one would get it :P

If it's at my own house, I use the 5 second rule except for things like fruit/mashed potatoes, other things of that nature.

I let my cats eat off of my forks and then put them back in my mouth, the floor is cleaner than that!

Anything that stuff can easily stick to (eg fruit) definitely not, that goes straight in the garbage... I always seem to drop food on the floor, so often that I'm now super quick to pick it up :P If it's cookies I'll just put it back in the bag, or some things I'll just give to other people and they'll eat it... I'm so kind :P

Dry food, yes. the 5-second rule is my line :P Wet stuff- euggh.
Wergo, why do you like hygiene-related threads?

i never ever eat food from the ground - eeww

i never eat it even with the 5 second rule lol

Bleh, noooo. I don't follow any of the five second rules or ten second rules... I just simply throw it away! Well, if it falls in my lap by accident, and it's dry food then I'll eat it, but other than that... no way!

If it's at school... no way. But my male classmates will.

At home, it depends.

For most stuff, the 5-second rule works. Except for wet stuff, naturally.

If I drop anything on my dorm room floor... eww. The floor can have it.

ewww... that is so gross. I would never eat mashed potatoes off the floor... ugh. Chips or gold fish... maybe... depending on what my mood is.

A Lesson to be Learned

Ever dropped a cookie on the floor, yelled "five-second rule," then quickly picked it up and popped it into your mouth? Theassumption is that five seconds is not a long enough time for your food to pick up harmful bacteria. The exact origin of this urban legend is unknown, but supposedly, Genghis Khan was the first to make such a claim, specifying a lenient 12 to 20 hour period for food left on the ground to remain safe. The fast food industry also has been credited with the "rule," supposedly to help minimize food waste. Whatever its origin, the "5 second rule" has become a readily accepted practice by young and old alike, especially to rationalize the eating of sweet foods like cookies that have fallen to the ground.

According to Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee.
Jillian Clarke, a high school senior put the 5-second rule to test.
Tests were conducted using smooth and rough 2-inch tiles from the hardware store and a supply of gummy bears and fudge-striped cookies. These foods were chosen after a survey showed that people were more apt to pick up sweet foods than other foods.
The tiles were sterilized and inoculated with E. coli. 25 grams of cookies or candy were placed on the tiles for 5 seconds. The food and tiles were then examined, using environmental scanning electron microscopy.
The results showed that the food picked up E. coli within 5 seconds. Food from smooth tiles transferred more than rough tiles. And more E. coli was transferred to gummy bears than cookies.

Which proves cookies are better than gummy bears.

exactly why i said i'll eat dry food rather than sticky or wet food. even if it's not about the germs, what about the fuzz and dirt that actually sticks to the food... it's just gross.

I only eat food off the floor if it's a) dry goods (or not too wet or mushy), and b) at my own house (or someone else's house with a real clean carpet). But at school...I don't even eat food if it falls on the table! That place is so disgusting...

i'm not that desperate for food ;) if it fell on the kitchen floor and was washable- like a grape- i might wash it and then eat it. but i'll generally just throw it away.

that reminds me, one of my sisters resolutions was "don't eat food off of the floor" :lol: [she meant food off of the floor in our house.. i hope.. :buckt:]. she always does that and i yell at her for it.. it's so gross.. it's not that hard to just get a new one [of whatever you're eating].

If it's fruit (say, a grape), I'll pick it up, wash it off, and then eat it. Cut fruit, cooked food and dry snacks are out.

I'd eat it as long as the floor was clean. If it was my kitchen floor or something, probably. But if it was on asphault or dirt, i doubt i would