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scumbucket
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Five-second food rule fails microbiology test
CHICAGO - A high school senior in the U.S. has dealt a blow to the gastronomic principle known as the five-second rule.
The rule states if food falls on the floor and remains there for five seconds or less then it's fine to pick it up and polish it off.
Jillian Clarke of Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences put the rule to the test.
Clarke says the rule was started by Genghis Khan. He apparently considered food safe to eat so long as it had been on the floor for 20 hours or less.
As part of her seven-week internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she tested the five-second rule around campus.
The researchers tested how many microorganisms transferred onto food from rough and smooth tiles. Gummy bears and fudge-type cookies were tested - the two-most commonly dropped and eaten snacks.
The campus floors were actually quite clean. They found fewer than 20 so-called colony-forming units of E. coli on the floors. The lower limit for detecting the microbes is 25 colony-forming units.
When the researchers purposely inoculated food with bacteria, they found it doesn't take long for the bugs to contaminate a morsel.
"People think if it made contact for only five seconds then it is OK to eat but it's false because if you do drop anything full of microorganisms such as E.coli, it will transfer and transfer immediately," Clarke told CBC Radio's As It Happens.
The texture of the food and floor tiles also made a difference, she found. Microbes transfer faster on smooth foods like gummy bears falling on smooth tiles compared to rough tiles or fudgey cookies.
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Re:Link is slow, here's the text
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xiopher
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If you don't go to the website you must read the articla about the monkeys
The 5 second rule is simply an excuse for people who don't care about the germs:) A convenient myth so they (we) don't get quite so sour looks when we let some good food not waste.
Testing the 20 second rule.
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Tom7
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The 20 second rule on slashdot says that any post you can write in 20 seconds must not be worth posting (unless you reload a few times until the time is up!)
Slashdot 5 second rule
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phamlen
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Slashdot shall not post a duplicate of a story until at least 5 seconds has passed?
The *original* article
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menscher
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The real reason for the duplicates
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narratorDan
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The reason is, and this is the real scary part, that each duplicate story contains a secret message for a anti-US geek terrorist cell bent on destroying the Christian capitalist imperialism of the infidel west. To read the messages you compare the two (somtimes three) duplicate stories and ROT13 the output. This is from the two five second rule articles:
The countdown to the next Windows web worm outbreak has begun. SoBig.G ready in 5 days. Praise Allah
'Course, the repeat stories are between repetitive stories of SCO 0wnz-u x.x, MS Evil 1.4beta, RIAA molests little girl, etc, etc.
-- "If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science?
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RevAaron
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Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this? (The submitter/poster mentioned having his life shattered)
I mean, I will "use" the 5-sec rule. Plenty of folks do. But for most people, it's just a damned excuse to eat food that has fallen on the ground. I mean, why waste whatever it is as long as there isn't hair, sand, gravel, dust, toenail clippings or something else sick that happened to be where it landed? Did some of you schmucks really think this was something they "discovered" in the 50s or something, and just now disproved? C'mon! It's just an way to prevent waste.:P
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Duplicate posting
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t-maxx+cowboy
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This 5 second rule issue was addressed about 1-2 weeks ago on the all mighty/.
-- Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
Re:Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science
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Anonymous Coward
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It's just one of those things some people might believe most of their lives without thinking much about it. Like thinking classic books are readable, for example.
The 5 second rule isn't based on science.
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KurdtX
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The 5 second rule is a social rule, and varies according to how much "ew, that's so icky" factor there is with your crowd.
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Kurdt I'm not anti-social. Just pro-technology.
Re: The 5 second rule isn't based on science.
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Black+Parrot
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> The 5 second rule is a social rule, and varies according to how much "ew, that's so icky" factor there is with your crowd.
Also on how clean your floors are and how much melted cheese was on the thing you dropped.
I'm still awaiting scientific analysis of the "he who smelt it dealt it" rule.
JC
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Anonymous Coward
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Of all the stories to be duplicated you guys have to pick this one? It was "-1: Offtopic" to begin with!
Want a Jelly Bean?
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Anonymous Coward
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I have another theory:
The 5 second rule is way for those around you to judge one aspect of your survival fitness. If lost and fending for themselves, an astute person will see that you follow the 5 second rule and will hand you the as-of-yet-unknown-to-be-good red berries, because you'll eat anything. They look like M&Ms, don't they?
Whoops. Too bad about Bob, huh? Ah well. Don't eat those, by the way. Let's try some of these tubers. Susy? (earlier, she dropped some jellybeans she had squirrled away, so she's a good candidate)
Point? Oh, yeah. Point. The point is this: Once food has dropped on the floor, it's of questionable quality. Sure, the study shows that there's not as many germs on the floor as one might think, but it also shows that if there are any to be picked up, they'll get them on the first bounce. Which is worth more to me: The half a bite of Chicken McWhat-part-of-the-chicken-is-this, or my health. I invite you to take a look at the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (ISBN:0393317552). It's an intersting read.
Yet another dupe.
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Anonymous Coward
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I can't believe there are people who pay for this crap.
With all these dupes, it could well be called Slashslashdotdot
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Five common sense rules
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chia_monkey
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Ok...c'mon. It's all a matter of common sense. Yeah I'm guilty of saying "five second rule" if I pick something up and eat it, but I'm not ALWAYS going to eat something after I drop it. If I drop a piece of beef jerky by the campfire, I'll probably eat it. If I drop a piece of toast on dining room floor, I'll probably eat it (I tend to keep my floors clean). If I drop a partially melted Hershey's bar outside...I probably won't. Same goes for dropping SPAM on a pile of dogshit. It's common sense folks.
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Re:Five common sense rules
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twiddlingbits
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This rule is made for children
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Arkhan
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I'm pretty sure this rule was "invented" by parents for children.
You know, children. Those small, humanoid-looking things that are incapable of holding ANYTHING in their hands without banging, dropping, or throwing it on the floor at least once a minute.
If a parent threw away every piece of a child's food that touched the floor, the food bill would triple. It ALL goes on the floor at some point.
I honestly believe this rule was made up for one reason. When your kids drop their food on the floor for the umpteenth time, you want to make them eat it anyway. So you say "five-second rule" and shove it in their slobbering little faces.
Re:This rule is made for children
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Anonymous Coward
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I like your style!
Re:This rule is made for children
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Saige
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It also makes sense to use this for children, in a way. Considering your floor, if you keep it clean and don't have a dog stepping in their urine and feces and walking across it all the time, doesn't exactly have tons of dangerous germs on it. It still has plenty though - but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I've seen a lot of studies done that suggest that children need their immune systems worked a bit more when they're younger to let them develop properly. That perhaps kids whose parents keep things too clean never have their immune systems worked properly, thus they can become hypersensitive, and cause issues with asthma and allergies.
The immune system evolved in an environment when it was constantly being used. If it doesn't get used, it probably goes overboard.
As a single data point, I remember reading an article talking about Crohn's Disease (inflammation and ulceration of the intestines and bowels) being treated by having patients drink a solution containing eggs of parasites that live in that area of the body. The immune system fights off the parasites, instead of being busy fighting the body. The parasites don't stay - they get killed, so the patients have to drink the solution every few weeks or so - but all the symptoms disappear.
Regardless, when I am a parent, the five-second rule will definitely stay, and if the kids play in the sand or dirt and get a little dirty, I'm not going to freak out - it's good for their body in the long run.
-- "You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Re:This rule is made for children
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Reziac
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Sounds like a good starter for the "When I become a parent..." list:
When I become a parent......I will not panic at the sight of blood, unless there are also missing body parts....I will not freak out when my children eat a little dirt. Remember that dirt is high in minerals and other healthful substances....I will let my kids work out their own differences, even if it involves a few fistfights.
And so on.:)
-- ~REZ~
#43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Re:This rule is made for children
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Rob+Simpson
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Also, according to the article, the floor was quite clean, as in almost undetectable amounts of bacteria. I wonder if the kitchen counters and the fingers of the participants were that clean...
Peeing for less than 30seconds
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fluor2
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If I pee for less than 30 seconds, I do not need to wash my hands!
Re:Peeing for less than 30seconds
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XmineR
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lol! nice!
Re:Peeing for less than 30seconds
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Bourbon+Man
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Dunno about you, but I don't pee on my hands.
Re:Peeing for less than 30seconds
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Rob+Simpson
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No kidding. Also, most people who aren't carrying some kind of foul crotchrot probably have more (and more harmful) bacteria on their hands. Wash after and before, kids.
Oh, and it takes 30 seconds of washing with soap under warm water to, say, get rid of those cold virus particles on your hands. A quick rinse and wiping on a towel will probably only spead disease more quickly.
I do not have mod points, sadly. If only they did not expire, but you were just removed from the queue or your clock stopped or whatever on getting more until you spent them, and the usual posting rules applied. But in this repeat story, which can only truly be useful for crosslinks and humor, this post truly deserves to be elevated.
-- "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
And if you think they transfer fast from the floor, think about that next time you take a bite or drink after someone else. Guh. *shudder* I don't even like to eat food someone else has touched.
/bacillophobe
If you want karma points and weren't worried about plagiarism, you could just search through this dupe's original story's discussion for the highest rated comments, and then repost them here and pretend they are your own. Unless all the moderators are on crack and hand out mods randomly.
-- "I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Oh crap. I just duped this guy's post, and it's in the dupe discussion, not the original.
-- "I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
The old grab-n-rub?
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Anonymous Coward
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It's always been the ten-second rule around here, but usually only applies to valuable stuff like a whole Oreo or your favorite flavor of Jelly Belly bean, and is followed up by a more or less ceremonial wipe on a nearby shirt, pants, napkin, whatever. A Cheeto's just not worth it, unless it's Giant.
It didn't kill the dog or cat.
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anubi
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So, my dog's been doing this for years.
I get the idea that there is a helluva lot more contamination in processed foods that we never are told about. As one said before, anyone who likes sausage or the law should never watch them being made.
Much ado about nothing. I am not a doctor, health fanaticist, or anything else for that matter, but if the floor is reasonably clean, and it didn't fall in muck, I'll probably recover it. But if
its a sticky thing, like the innards of my hamburger, I'll probably call the dog.
-- "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
An appropriate place to mention the "official" definition of disconfection - the practive of blowing on candy that has been dropped on the floor to remove the germs.
actually, its to blow off the tiny black specs of dirt that the child could actually see...sorry but thanks for playing.
since the first time
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epine
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I read an article on Science Daily, IIRC, about the concept of hormesis: that low level exposure to pathogenic forces improves the health of the organism.
A few years ago I read an article about the spread of bacteria when handling raw chicken. They asked a number of people to prepare a roast chicken starting with a sanitary kitchen, and then they went around afterwards looking for salmonella bacteria. The woman in the study who cleaned most compulsively proved best as smearing the bacteria onto every kitchen surface. Unless you clean with bleach, the average soapy rag is just an efficient distribution system.
Compared to kitchens and door handles, the average floor is a dose of penicillian. Hormensis from fallen gummy bears prepares my body for food that has contacted the kitchen counter for more than a few seconds.
Don't recall exactly where I read about the salmonella study, but it was around the time that The Sciences was still good, so it was a while ago.
"I never fuss about dirt in its pure state, and when I know what sort it is... I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already."
"A right sensible man." said Jacob. "True, true; it can't be gainsaid!" observed a brisk young man -- Mark Clark by name..."And here's a mouthful of bread and bacon that mis'ess have sent, shepherd. The cider will go down better with a bit of victuals. Don't ye chaw quite close, shepherd, for I let the bacon fall in the road outside as I was bringing it along, and may be 'tis rather gritty. There, 'tis clane dirt; and we all know what that is, as you say, and you bain't a particular man we see, shepherd." "True, true -- not at all." said the friendly Oak. "Don't let your teeth quite meet, and you won't feel the sandiness at all. Ah! 'tis wonderful what can be done by contrivance!"
-- When I am king, you will be first against
the wall.
How much cleaner the average countertop is in comparison to the floors these are tested on, and how long the food spends on those.
I try to keep my counters clean, but often they will have a small spot of leaked juice, or a fleck of this-or-that. Do you always wipe your counter down before preparing food, even with a quick snack?
Another nasty to focus on would be how short it takes a dishcloth to become truly smelly and unpleasant... dirty rags don't make clean dishes... which is why I prefer the short-use disposible variety
Gastrointestinal Schwartzenneger
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Anonymous Coward
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Do you want to have the stomach equivalent of Arnold Schewartzenneger? Or do you want to have the stomach of a girly man? By eating fod picked off the floor, and starting at an early age, you ahrden your immune system and your stomach against common everyday germs found on God's green creation. That's why we have a freaking immune system: so those doritos spilled into the couch cracks don't have to go to waste.
Re:Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science
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RevAaron
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But they are extra protein! Same with hair, and skin. A little bacteria never hurt anyone; yet, all of that extra nutrition really is swell!
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Is this an American thing? I've never heard of this before...
Screw the 5 second rule
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Unregistered
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i use the 5 minuite rule: You have 5 minuites to eat something off the floor as long as nobody's steped on it. If it's still there after 5 mins, you should assume it's still down there becasue it's not worth eating in the 1st place.
The 5 second rule isn't a scientific thing, it's just that there isn't much on the floor that is pathogenic and even less that will actually make you sick. Pathogens don't do to well without a host. So as long as whatever you dropped it on won't affect the taste (like the stuff behind the couch) it's perfectly ok to eat.
Check out the several entries for why no one eats at my house, in one of which I prove that pizza is in fact a fungus.;)
-- ~REZ~
#43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Re:Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science
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Reziac
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Preventing wasted food, my ass. It's actually a way to prevent other greedy folk from knocking the goodies out of your hand, then grabbing it when it hits the ground. After all, if they can't pick it up before the five seconds is up, it's deemed contaminated and all their knocking you around was wasted effort.;)~
Slashdot Mirror
Must every thing be duplicated 5 times?
I knew I wasn't the only who whoseen this story on /. before
sigh... why can't they bother to check
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
... the 5-second-rule is that the dog has 5 seconds to eat dropped food before I pick it up and eat it myself.
He knows this, and usually manages to snatch the morsel before it even hits the floor.
Five-second food rule fails microbiology test
CHICAGO - A high school senior in the U.S. has dealt a blow to the gastronomic principle known as the five-second rule.
The rule states if food falls on the floor and remains there for five seconds or less then it's fine to pick it up and polish it off.
Jillian Clarke of Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences put the rule to the test.
Clarke says the rule was started by Genghis Khan. He apparently considered food safe to eat so long as it had been on the floor for 20 hours or less.
As part of her seven-week internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she tested the five-second rule around campus.
The researchers tested how many microorganisms transferred onto food from rough and smooth tiles. Gummy bears and fudge-type cookies were tested - the two-most commonly dropped and eaten snacks.
The campus floors were actually quite clean. They found fewer than 20 so-called colony-forming units of E. coli on the floors. The lower limit for detecting the microbes is 25 colony-forming units.
When the researchers purposely inoculated food with bacteria, they found it doesn't take long for the bugs to contaminate a morsel.
"People think if it made contact for only five seconds then it is OK to eat but it's false because if you do drop anything full of microorganisms such as E.coli, it will transfer and transfer immediately," Clarke told CBC Radio's As It Happens.
The texture of the food and floor tiles also made a difference, she found. Microbes transfer faster on smooth foods like gummy bears falling on smooth tiles compared to rough tiles or fudgey cookies.
CMDRTACO CHECK YOUR EMAIL!
...of who posts more dupes? Would be interesting statistics to see :)
--AP
The 5 second rule is simply an excuse for people who don't care about the germs :) A convenient myth so they (we) don't get quite so sour looks when we let some good food not waste.
The 20 second rule on slashdot says that any post you can write in 20 seconds must not be worth posting (unless you reload a few times until the time is up!)
Slashdot shall not post a duplicate of a story until at least 5 seconds has passed?
From Sep 2: If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule.
To read the messages you compare the two (somtimes three) duplicate stories and ROT13 the output. This is from the two five second rule articles:'Course, the repeat stories are between repetitive stories of SCO 0wnz-u x.x, MS Evil 1.4beta, RIAA molests little girl, etc, etc.
"If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this? (The submitter/poster mentioned having his life shattered)
:P
I mean, I will "use" the 5-sec rule. Plenty of folks do. But for most people, it's just a damned excuse to eat food that has fallen on the ground. I mean, why waste whatever it is as long as there isn't hair, sand, gravel, dust, toenail clippings or something else sick that happened to be where it landed? Did some of you schmucks really think this was something they "discovered" in the 50s or something, and just now disproved? C'mon! It's just an way to prevent waste.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
This 5 second rule issue was addressed about 1-2 weeks ago on the all mighty /.
Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
It's just one of those things some people might believe most of their lives without thinking much about it. Like thinking classic books are readable, for example.
The 5 second rule is a social rule, and varies according to how much "ew, that's so icky" factor there is with your crowd.
Kurdt
I'm not anti-social. Just pro-technology.
I'm still awaiting scientific analysis of the "he who smelt it dealt it" rule.
Of all the stories to be duplicated you guys have to pick this one? It was "-1: Offtopic" to begin with!
I have another theory:
The 5 second rule is way for those around you to judge one aspect of your survival fitness. If lost and fending for themselves, an astute person will see that you follow the 5 second rule and will hand you the as-of-yet-unknown-to-be-good red berries, because you'll eat anything. They look like M&Ms, don't they?
Whoops. Too bad about Bob, huh? Ah well. Don't eat those, by the way. Let's try some of these tubers. Susy? (earlier, she dropped some jellybeans she had squirrled away, so she's a good candidate)
Point? Oh, yeah. Point. The point is this: Once food has dropped on the floor, it's of questionable quality. Sure, the study shows that there's not as many germs on the floor as one might think, but it also shows that if there are any to be picked up, they'll get them on the first bounce. Which is worth more to me: The half a bite of Chicken McWhat-part-of-the-chicken-is-this, or my health. I invite you to take a look at the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (ISBN:0393317552). It's an intersting read.
I can't believe there are people who pay for this crap.
Ok...c'mon. It's all a matter of common sense. Yeah I'm guilty of saying "five second rule" if I pick something up and eat it, but I'm not ALWAYS going to eat something after I drop it. If I drop a piece of beef jerky by the campfire, I'll probably eat it. If I drop a piece of toast on dining room floor, I'll probably eat it (I tend to keep my floors clean). If I drop a partially melted Hershey's bar outside...I probably won't. Same goes for dropping SPAM on a pile of dogshit. It's common sense folks.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Toenail clippings aren't just extra protein? Ack! I've been LIED to!
---Bruce "Mr. Disillusioned"
There was this frog once, taught me everything I knew. I've learned this since: never listen to frogs that speak.
that we all have immune systems.
I'm pretty sure this rule was "invented" by parents for children.
You know, children. Those small, humanoid-looking things that are incapable of holding ANYTHING in their hands without banging, dropping, or throwing it on the floor at least once a minute.
If a parent threw away every piece of a child's food that touched the floor, the food bill would triple. It ALL goes on the floor at some point.
I honestly believe this rule was made up for one reason. When your kids drop their food on the floor for the umpteenth time, you want to make them eat it anyway. So you say "five-second rule" and shove it in their slobbering little faces.
If I pee for less than 30 seconds, I do not need to wash my hands!
Last time this story was posted, I got a Score:5, Funny...
:-)
Mods, go to work
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
From the article:
E. coli easily stick to gummy bears
EVERYTHING sticks to gummy bears.
Stupid journalists, scientists.
You can't take the sky from me...
I do not have mod points, sadly. If only they did not expire, but you were just removed from the queue or your clock stopped or whatever on getting more until you spent them, and the usual posting rules applied. But in this repeat story, which can only truly be useful for crosslinks and humor, this post truly deserves to be elevated.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
And if you think they transfer fast from the floor, think about that next time you take a bite or drink after someone else. Guh. *shudder* I don't even like to eat food someone else has touched.
/bacillophobe
> Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this?
It's clearly bogus, since it doesn't recognize that cookies stay safe longer than vegetables do.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If you want karma points and weren't worried about plagiarism, you could just search through this dupe's original story's discussion for the highest rated comments, and then repost them here and pretend they are your own. Unless all the moderators are on crack and hand out mods randomly.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
It's always been the ten-second rule around here, but usually only applies to valuable stuff like a whole Oreo or your favorite flavor of Jelly Belly bean, and is followed up by a more or less ceremonial wipe on a nearby shirt, pants, napkin, whatever. A Cheeto's just not worth it, unless it's Giant.
I get the idea that there is a helluva lot more contamination in processed foods that we never are told about. As one said before, anyone who likes sausage or the law should never watch them being made.
Much ado about nothing. I am not a doctor, health fanaticist, or anything else for that matter, but if the floor is reasonably clean, and it didn't fall in muck, I'll probably recover it. But if its a sticky thing, like the innards of my hamburger, I'll probably call the dog.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
An appropriate place to mention the "official" definition of disconfection - the practive of blowing on candy that has been dropped on the floor to remove the germs.
I read an article on Science Daily, IIRC, about the concept of hormesis: that low level exposure to pathogenic forces improves the health of the organism.
A few years ago I read an article about the spread of bacteria when handling raw chicken. They asked a number of people to prepare a roast chicken starting with a sanitary kitchen, and then they went around afterwards looking for salmonella bacteria. The woman in the study who cleaned most compulsively proved best as smearing the bacteria onto every kitchen surface. Unless you clean with bleach, the average soapy rag is just an efficient distribution system.
Compared to kitchens and door handles, the average floor is a dose of penicillian. Hormensis from fallen gummy bears prepares my body for food that has contacted the kitchen counter for more than a few seconds.
Don't recall exactly where I read about the salmonella study, but it was around the time that The Sciences was still good, so it was a while ago.
Yes, the five second rule is true, if the slashdot editors don't look back for more than five seconds, you get an disease-ridden dupe.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
"I never fuss about dirt in its pure state, and when I know what sort it is... I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already."
"A right sensible man." said Jacob. "True, true; it can't be gainsaid!" observed a brisk young man -- Mark Clark by name..."And here's a mouthful of bread and bacon that mis'ess have sent, shepherd. The cider will go down better with a bit of victuals. Don't ye chaw quite close, shepherd, for I let the bacon fall in the road outside as I was bringing it along, and may be 'tis rather gritty. There, 'tis clane dirt; and we all know what that is, as you say, and you bain't a particular man we see, shepherd." "True, true -- not at all." said the friendly Oak. "Don't let your teeth quite meet, and you won't feel the sandiness at all. Ah! 'tis wonderful what can be done by contrivance!"
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
How much cleaner the average countertop is in comparison to the floors these are tested on, and how long the food spends on those.
I try to keep my counters clean, but often they will have a small spot of leaked juice, or a fleck of this-or-that. Do you always wipe your counter down before preparing food, even with a quick snack?
Another nasty to focus on would be how short it takes a dishcloth to become truly smelly and unpleasant... dirty rags don't make clean dishes... which is why I prefer the short-use disposible variety
Do you want to have the stomach equivalent of Arnold Schewartzenneger? Or do you want to have the stomach of a girly man? By eating fod picked off the floor, and starting at an early age, you ahrden your immune system and your stomach against common everyday germs found on God's green creation. That's why we have a freaking immune system: so those doritos spilled into the couch cracks don't have to go to waste.
But they are extra protein! Same with hair, and skin. A little bacteria never hurt anyone; yet, all of that extra nutrition really is swell!
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
I Hate \.
Is this an American thing? I've never heard of this before...
i use the 5 minuite rule: You have 5 minuites to eat something off the floor as long as nobody's steped on it. If it's still there after 5 mins, you should assume it's still down there becasue it's not worth eating in the 1st place.
The 5 second rule isn't a scientific thing, it's just that there isn't much on the floor that is pathogenic and even less that will actually make you sick. Pathogens don't do to well without a host. So as long as whatever you dropped it on won't affect the taste (like the stuff behind the couch) it's perfectly ok to eat.
Preventing wasted food, my ass. It's actually a way to prevent other greedy folk from knocking the goodies out of your hand, then grabbing it when it hits the ground. After all, if they can't pick it up before the five seconds is up, it's deemed contaminated and all their knocking you around was wasted effort. ;)~
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Yes. Now go jump off a cliff.
the same rule is known as "Three Secound Rule".
A little bit shorter, in Japan.