Why the 'Five Second Rule' doesn't work!

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Have you ever been eating something, really tasty, perhaps it's the last bite, it falls to the ground and you quickly pick it up, blowing at it, brushing it off and/or kissing it and raising it upward in the hopes that it's blessed and ready to be enjoyed?


Well those five seconds is enough time for all kinds of germs to get on your food. So you may have just eaten a mouthful of something that will make you sick! Sometimes it can even take just two seconds for it to get contaminated!


If you're generally healthy and don't have too much of a problem healthwise, your stomach acid and your immune system that naturally protects your body against certain germs, will take care of anything injested from that five second rule!


Did you know that the kitchen is the dirtiest room in your home? It doesn't even matter how clean you or your house is!


According to Richard Maloof, the writer, the five second rule is an excuse, one that was made up because our friends were around to see us drop our food, which probably is our last bite! So, it seems we're asking them permission to eat from the floor!


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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
suuuuuurreeee, FS! Next you're gonna tell me that ice cream doesn't lose calories because it frozen!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Next you're gonna tell me that ice cream doesn't lose calories because it frozen!


Oh no...I like to indulge in a bite or two sometimes, I like mine hard, not soft! Still regardless what that Maloof guys says, in my home, the five second rules applies!lol!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey your immune system needs exercise too ya know.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey your immune system needs exercise too ya know.


I just 'got' what you meant!! I agree with you!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
hey!!!!! it is a scientific FACT if you blow on food that fell to the ground and it was only on the ground for 3 seconds or less, it is ok to eat, especially if it is realllllllll tasty food and it is the last bite!

Go peddle your voo-doo somehwere else donna!!!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
so I'll start carryin' a flask with me. I imagine any germs my food might have picked up in the last five seconds can be dealt with using sterilizing wash of John Daniels.

I'll be gettin' a lot clumsier in the near future! LOL!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Who is John Daniels?
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Who is John Daniels?


"When you've known him as long as I have, it's John!"

(Best line ever, from "Scent of a Woman")
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Go peddle your voo-doo somehwere else donna!!!




@ Elie!


hey!!!!! it is a scientific FACT if you blow on food that fell to the ground and it was only on the ground for 3 seconds or less, it is ok to eat, especially if it is realllllllll tasty food and it is the last bite!


My son says he'll do it in two seconds! !


so I'll start carryin' a flask with me. I imagine any germs my food might have picked up in the last five seconds can be dealt with using sterilizing wash of John Daniels.


Forget the food, drink the Jack er John Daniels!!





"When you've known him as long as I have, it's John!"(Best line ever, from "Scent of a Woman")


Oh yeah, nowI remember that line! Love that movie! Whose John anyway, I like Jane better!lol!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Have you ever been eating something, really tasty, perhaps it's the last bite, it falls to the ground and you quickly pick it up, blowing at it, brushing it off and/or kissing it and raising it upward in the hopes that it's blessed and ready to be enjoyed?


hahahah, blessed and ready to enjoy! Yep been there done that...most frustrating that the guilt of having picked it up off the floor spoils it though.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

(Best line ever, from "Scent of a Woman")

Gid beat me to that punch line.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good thing you got that in five seconds, or else we were going to have to change to the ten second rule.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It does too work! 'specialy if it's a piece of ribeye or a slice of cheese sausage...
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Was this a point of confusion for anyone? The five second rule is a vague attempt to make something socially acceptable. Yes, it's an excuse for an otherwise generally unacceptable trait (eating something off the floor/ground).

Still, I don't allow my kids to do it. They're going to have to be teenagers before they get away with it. Older one dropped 1/4 of a chocolate chip cookie this afternoon at a military appreciation picnic. The look on his face... but I told him to pick it up and put it on the plate for me to throw away.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
You mean I shouldn't go after that peanut M&M that slips out of my hands and rolls onto the carpet that hasn't been vacummed (sp?) in a few days? Awww.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
the guilt of having picked it up off the floor spoils it though.


Definitely not when I'm outside, or my kids too, just from off our own floor, so no guilt there!lol!




Gid beat me to that punch line.


Gid's fast on the draw...wait, that's 'quick on the draw'!



Good thing you got that in five seconds, or else we were going to have to change to the ten second rule


! I can sympathise! Any excuse to get the last bite!lol!



It does too work! 'specialy if it's a piece of ribeye or a slice of cheese sausage...


Yummy! But if it's a sticky mess....ewwww! Although, I would just wash it and doze it with more sauce!!


The five second rule is a vague attempt to make something socially acceptable. Yes, it's an excuse for an otherwise generally unacceptable trait (eating something off the floor/ground).


You got it!



Still, I don't allow my kids to do it. They're going to have to be teenagers before they get away with it.


When they look at you with that "oh no I didn't if I don't have it, it's the end of the world"expression....usually, I say yes, if it's inside our home, outside...no way! I explained to my five year old why I say yes when it's inside..it's our home, we clean it often..blah blah but outside, no way! Although once I didn't let her eat something that fell on the floor since I hadn't vacuumed all week and they were traisping in and out with their friends all week...no way!


The look on his face... but I told him to pick it up and put it on the plate for me to throw away.


I can imagine the disappointment! You know there's nothing like the last bite!


You mean I shouldn't go after that peanut M&M that slips out of my hands and rolls onto the carpet that hasn't been vacummed (sp?) in a few days? Awww.


WEll, if it's your carpet and you're sure there's nothing...er....too bad on it....go fetch!! Otherwise, like Maloof said, if it's at Taco Bell and it rolled under the table, you're on your own! That made me laugh out loud when I read that! !
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

Who is John Daniels?


Did I get my line wrong? Been a while since I've seen that one.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Who is John Daniels?Did I get my line wrong? Been a while since I've seen that one.


Isn't it Jack Daniels alcohol he's referring to? Or maybe I got mixed up too!!
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
I confess. I have dropped things and still eaten them.

My baby "eats" things from the floor all the time.

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
People can cite that 5 second rule all they want, it's just an excuse for being lazy, gross, or cheap. THROW IT AWAY.


LOL.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
I confess. I have dropped things and still eaten them.


Haha....like most normal people! We have no clue about these things, we just do them!!


My baby "eats" things from the floor all the time.


Hey, she's home, your floor is clean...or at least it's your mess!



We have a zero second rule here.With two dogs and two cats, our floors---no matter how recently vacuumed or mopped--are unclean.The animals urinate and defecate in the yard. They walk their little feets through it. They walk into the house. No matter how often I clean my yard or my floors, this contamination occurs.Nothing, and I mean NOTHING that touches the floor here finds its way to our plates, I don't care how expensive it is or how long its been on the floor.


When you have pets that do all that in your home, different story! And totally necessary!lol!


People can cite that 5 second rule all they want, it's just an excuse for being lazy, gross, or cheap. THROW IT AWAY.


Oh yea...people just hate to let the last bite go!lol!
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
suuuuuurreeee, FS! Next you're gonna tell me that ice cream doesn't lose calories because it frozen!


Actually, it does. Any given food will contribute less calories cold because the body will be required to heat the substance up to body temperature. I doubt the difference is all that significant, but still. It's at least worth an excuse or two.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, she's home, your floor is clean...or at least it's your mess!


I think it's probably a little better in HI since most people remove their shoes in the house (we do).

But still, try to stop a baby from putting her toys and lint and everything else in her mouth. Haha. Not possible.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, it does. Any given food will contribute less calories cold because the body will be required to heat the substance up to body temperature. I doubt the difference is all that significant, but still. It's at least worth an excuse or two.

You just made a lot of ice cream lovers very happy!

Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually, it does. Any given food will contribute less calories cold because the body will be required to heat the substance up to body temperature


You just made a lot of ice cream lovers very happy!


Whohooo! Although I do eat Frozen yogurt these days...when I feel like having some ice cream!




But still, try to stop a baby from putting her toys and lint and everything else in her mouth. Haha. Not possible.


Believe me I know! I remember!! That's good they take their shoes off. I've tried that, sometimes they don't remember to!