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Joe asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 3 years ago

Five-second rule?

Is it ok to eat food from the floor if it has been only 5 seconds or less?

Also, please hurry as there are only 2 seconds left...

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Five second rule was thrown out by the previous administration

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Too late, the dog got to it first.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Depends on how in tune you are with your surroundings.

    (That's putting it nicely.)

  • 3 years ago

    You are too late already. Contaminated by millions of germs in a nanosecond.

    Peace.

  • Technically, no. Once the food touches the ground it is infected by millions of bacteria (as i was told by my geeky friends at my grammar school). But I've licked the floor before and have generally bad hygiene and I'm not dead yet so go ahead.

  • 3 years ago

    well, that was 12 minutes ago, but if you run the food under cold water I think you can go for 20 minutes!

  • 3 years ago

    I have a 5-day rule myself.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Sure, Babe.

  • 3 years ago

    No! It's a 3 second rule!

  • 3 years ago

    if the floor is clean yes

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