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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...
10 Answers
- Anonymous3 years ago
Five second rule was thrown out by the previous administration
- Anonymous3 years ago
Too late, the dog got to it first.
- Anonymous3 years ago
Depends on how in tune you are with your surroundings.
(That's putting it nicely.)
- YYYZZ 2Lv 73 years ago
You are too late already. Contaminated by millions of germs in a nanosecond.
Peace.
- 3 years ago
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.
- Be an AngelLv 63 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!