Monday, January 24, 2005

Five second rule?

The USA TODAY ran one of their infographics today, showing how America responded to "Do you eat food dropped on the floor?"

More people were cautious about it than I would have expected.

10% admitted to following a three-second rule
8% were cool with a five-second rule
4% thought a ten-second rule was fair game

...but an overwhelming 78% said food on the floor was simply not safe.

Wimps. (Note: I'm a fan of the ten second rule if the floor looks clean and you blow on the food a little. I would NOT eat food off our kitchen floor, as that would be hazordous to my health.)

5 comments:

Brandon said...

Personally, I think that food which even thinks about touching the floor in your kitchen automatically becomes deadly.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

1-, 20, 3500000 its all the same to me

Anonymous said...

10, 20, 3500000 its all the same to me

mira said...

Depending on the floor, I go with the 5 second rule. There are some floors that I don't even want to walk on barefoot, much less eat off of.