NEWS: The Five-Second Rule is Bullshit

Yes. Not being dead is generally considered good.

SocietysPliers said:

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herbancowboy said:
(Freegans are against spending money on animal products, but they won't let them "go to waste."

Oh my god, I should become a freegan!

Wow. Somebody on a list-serve I'm on coincidentally posted a link to a CNN.com article on the topic. Apparently there's a freegan manifesto and everything.

So, it's like a free range vegan?

I find free range vegans SO much tastier than the ones they raise in the little stacked boxes.

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"Mmm . . . Free Range Vegans"

Yes. Not being dead is generally considered a good thing.

I'm finally picking up that leg of chicken off the floor.

I may as well get up while I'm down there, too.

Well, our bodies are miraculous mechanisms, and much as George Carlin claims he was made tougher by swimming in the Hudson when he was a kid, I think that America's obsession with being germ-free is borderline on psychosis. Geez, I am a chemist, and I really don't care about all this. After all, how many people here smoke, and besides there is cyanide in carrots and arsenic in apple seeds. MMMMMM, poison-licious!!! I personally know of people that shit on each other for kicks. Not my bag, but they are kinda like roaches, ya know. I wonder if they will be the only members of the human race to survive nuclear holocaust???

thats not the rule
the rule is:

if you drop something on the floor

you are supposed to put it back on the grill for 5 seconds

and then its ok to serve to the customere

that is the five second rule
you amatuers

Mmmm . . . Dirty floor food!

contaminated with bacteria

When the 5 second rule fails me I just switch to the 10 second rule.

there was a mythbusters with a similar concept. it was the toothbrush in the bathroom is going to get fecal spray on it from flushing the toilet eposide. the test ran for a month & all the toothbrushes tested positive for contaminants even the "control" toothbrush in another room.
so theres disgusting shit everywhere & we breathe it, drink it, eat it & brush our teeth with it & for the most part we're all fine.

think about the 3rd world countries & their "sanitation". they buy the slab of meat covered in flies because flies won't eat bad meat.

5 second rule? Screw that, my grandpas rule was:

*shrugs* "Eh, you eat a pound of dirt before you die..."

And he lived to be 87.

I never ate food off the floor before, I ate sitting on the floor but the 5 second rule sounds kinda gross.

Yeah, the Mythbusters they did on this exact topic showed simply that there were as many bacteria on food dropped and immediately retrieved as on food picked up after I think it was up to 10 seconds.

Yes, we are exposed to many bacteria all the time, the vastly larger number not harful to us, and an also pretty high number directly necessary to our survival. The whole thing is. Be careful. Pay attention to WHERE you dropp your food. If you drop it in the litter box of a cat that just died of a severe gastrointestinal infection, don't eat it.

And dirt has little to do with disease in itself. And I'm sure it's MANY MANY times more than a pound of dirt we each eat.

Me, I just enjoyed the most scrumptious bowl of New Jersey Pine Barrens Red Clay.

damit!

That's some outstanding tiling or patterned linoleum or whatever, though. I want a floor like that.

Except, you know, without the yellow nasty-banana-/rotten-dolphin-nose-
looking thing on it.

Hey!!! Watch it!!!!Some of my best friends are yellow-nasty-banana-/rottren-dolphin-nose-looking things!!!!!

Yeah, I'm with the people who knew it wasn't actually a "rule" but used to to justify eating food that fell on the floor. Of course, it depends on what floor...

yeah, Myth Busters did a whole show on this

youve got to indulge in some bacteria and microorganisms from time to time. otherwise, your antibacterial vacuum sealed germ free self will get taken out by the first foreign germ to stroll along unavoidably. now where did i leave those peanuts from the bar i put in my pocket last night? oh there they are, on the floor... if only i could reach... under... the fridge! hold on, ill be right back.

Yeah. You missed the multiple posts mentioning this.

this articale is complete BULLSHIT a group of German scientists tested the 5 second rule about a year ago and they say that the bacterial motility is too slow to grab onto an item that falls on the ground (provided the surface is not wet or porous)

*DROPPIN' KNOWLAGE*

exactly! well said. Plus, if we fucking start uber cleaning everything, people will get more ill coz they aren't naturally immune to puny little bugs on the work surface at home!

DO NOT DETTOL YOUR HOUSE

Uh, link. Because I've got two studies here that say your Germans are dead fucking wrong.

Haha, stupid slow bacteria. LOL

This has got to be the dumbest study I have ever seen. The five second rule only counts with food that has been brought to temperature. If food is cooked to 165 degrees and then dropped, it will take approximately 5 seconds for the cold, bacteria heavy, floor to chill the surface of the food to a temperature where bacteria can live. This has nothing whatsoever to do with gummi bears and popcorn.