Is the mythical "five-second rule" actually real? - CBS NewsNew research finds that there is some truth to the so-called "five-second rule" -- the belief that food is safe to eat if picked up from the floor in under five seconds.
My Mom taught me this rule at a very early age.
Jim
Darn I was thinking it was the three second rule
I suppose I'm not counting the air and bouncing time
...I was at a fast food place - watching a toddler trying to get some relatively fresh gum (already been chewed by someone else) unstuck from the floor. The toddler's young mom and her friend were also watching - so I did not step in. Once the toddler realized that his little fingers could not get that gum loose, he laid down and tried to bite the gum from the floor. The mom calmly allowed this to go on for 10 or 20 seconds. I'm not sure that the mom would have stopped the toddler if it had not been for other customers wanting to walk where the toddler was "working".
:::shutters at the thought:::
The floor contains bacteria..lots of it. It doesnt matter if its 1 second. If it drops on the floor, its gonna have crap all over it.
Last edited by Brink; 16 Mar 2014 at 21:58. Reason: removed unneeded comment
There are plenty of very old and relatively health people that subcribe to the theory that the human body should be exposed to germs as a mean of bolstering the immune system.
I see way too much use of anti-bacterial stuff...
...but I won't go this far:
Leave that stuff for the vultures.
Last edited by Brink; 16 Mar 2014 at 21:58. Reason: removed unneeded comment from quote
...and if people only knew what most toddlers manage to survive (germ wise), perhaps they would not hose them down with anti-bacterial stuff so often. That stuff kills the good and the bad germs.
:::steps down from an anti-bacterial soapbox:::
I liked the article - thanks for posting it. I had not seen it elsewhere.
Last edited by UsernameIssues; 18 Mar 2014 at 16:38.
I remember when I was at a baseball game one time there was this man who had his coke and hot dog on one of those cardboard trays. He stumbled walking to his seat. The coke and hot dog went everywhere. In about two minutes this teenager walks up and looks down at the hot dog. He picks it up with two fingers and disappears under the stands. In about five minutes he comes walking back with this huge bulge in his cheeks.
Owe ya hotdogs are safe to wipe off
The skin is everything,
It's what's inside that would scare most people
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