Testing the Five Second Rule 85
V_M_Smith writes "Have we been wrong all this time? Is the Five-second Rule only a myth? My world view is shattered!"
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Testing the Five Second Rule
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5 dulication rule? (Score:4, Funny)
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I knew it (Score:2, Informative)
sigh... why can't they bother to check
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I embrace dupe posts as it gives me a chance to read stuff I may have missed by an odd chance.
In my house... (Score:5, Funny)
... 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.
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Then we had kids.
I swear they can hear the sound of the food as it is still falling and are usually there at about the time it hits the floor.
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You are so wrong.
I don't have a beard.
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Link is slow, here's the text (Score:1, Redundant)
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 th
Should they keep the counter... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Not important (Score:4, Insightful)
Testing the 20 second rule. (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot 5 second rule (Score:3, Funny)
The *original* article (Score:5, Informative)
The real reason for the duplicates (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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Toenail clippings aren't just extra protein? Ack! I've been LIED to!
---Bruce "Mr. Disillusioned"
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> 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.
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The 5 second rule isn't based on science. (Score:2)
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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> 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.
Presumably depends on your marital status, too.
Other Rules (Score:5, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP PLEASE (Score:2)
Re:Yet another dupe. (Score:1)
This would be big news if the findings supported moving the world to a 10 second rule! Think of all the little gummies saved!
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Five common sense rules (Score:2)
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Good thing... (Score:2)
This rule is made for children (Score:2, Insightful)
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
Re:This rule is made for children (Score:2, Insightful)
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 thing
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When I become a parent...
And so on.
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Peeing for less than 30seconds (Score:2)
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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.
Ok, dupes can be cool (Score:5, Funny)
Mods, go to work
Gummy (Score:1, Flamebait)
E. coli easily stick to gummy bears
EVERYTHING sticks to gummy bears.
Stupid journalists, scientists.
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See? (Score:2)
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It didn't kill the dog or cat. (Score:1)
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 cal
Disconfection.. (Score:3)
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since the first time (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
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Thomas Hardy said it best (Score:2)
"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
I wonder though (Score:3, Insightful)
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
...the dirty ground. (Score:1)
You what? (Score:1)
Screw the 5 second rule (Score:2)
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 st
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In Japan (Score:1)
A little bit shorter, in Japan.