10 second rule:does it apply to you

swingking

Picture the scene

you are eating a chocolate bar and just as you get to the end, the last bit manages to break loose from the wrapper and fall to the floor.

No-ones watching and the oppertunity is there to just pick it up and eat it. After all it's only been on the ground for less than 10 seconds.

or do you have a rule of "once it falls, it's gone"

RedXIV

if it can't outrun you on the ground, it's fair game

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

if it falls in ****, you're probably better off not eating it.. but to be quite honest your hands and mouth are likely to be far filthier than most surfaces your chocolate bar will fall on.

dr.bollocko

swingking wrote: »

"once it falls, it's gone"

As the leper said on his wedding night.

Turd Ferguson

If its dry food like choco or something then yeah its all good.

Ice cream on the other hand just picks up all the crap on the floor so that and other types of stuff I'd usually* leave



*if i'm drunk then anything is fair game

Cookie_Monster

Do you mean the 10 minute rule?:)

Mossy Monk

Penn & Teller showed me that eating a sandwich that was on the ground for 5 minutes is ok. So yes it is ok.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Only if it feel on a clean surface and wasnt anything that would pick up dirt like ice cream!

Sols12

I think you'll find that its the 3-second rule????

Xavi6

I go by the 1 minute rule.

Not too fussed about what the surface is either once it doesn't alter the taste of the food.

NinjaTruncs

I knew a girl who used to pick up used chewing gum from the ground and eat it, and she wasn't the first person to use it.

Ruu_Old

If it falls, it means nothing to me anymore.

CountingCrows

Aren't you just meant to bless it first?

rainbow kirby

If it hits the ground, it's for the bin.

and2

Sols12 wrote: »

I think you'll find that its the 3-second rule????

+1

junior_apollo

CountingCrows wrote: »

Aren't you just meant to bless it first?

surely that would depend on your religion then... ?

funk-you

I'm a firm believer in this rule. I have a mate who took it too far once. A few of us found a half eaten drifter on the back of the 37 bus and brought it back to his place to test the depths of his knackeryness.

We waited until he was well caked and offered it to him telling him where it came from. He's now earned the name "the shore" because he'll eat pretty much anything. Skinny f*cker too. Can't wait for the day his metabolism slows down and he poos less often to see just how fat he'll get.

-Funk

RxQueen

i have the 5 sceond rule, but if something was really nice and it was on the ground for a bit longer id eat it tbh , clean it first of course.

remember being in town one day and somebody dared this guy to drink out of a supermacs that was left on the street, thats a bit extreme , wouldnt do that, he did thought , i laughed.

Stark

funk-you wrote:

Skinny f*cker too.

That'll be the parasites.

Steve_o

5 seconds rule for me!, if its been on the floor any longer its no longer my concern!

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Once it falls it's lost to me - unless I'm drunk...

Doop

I abide by the 5 second rule also... except if its buttered bread/ toast.... WHY does it always land butter side down....?
more importantly WHY do i keep dropping my food ?!

Frisbee

swingking wrote: »

Picture the scene

you are eating a chocolate bar and just as you get to the end, the last bit manages to break loose from the wrapper and fall to the floor.

No-ones watching and the oppertunity is there to just pick it up and eat it. After all it's only been on the ground for less than 10 seconds.

or do you have a rule of "once it falls, it's gone"

Why does that matter?
I do it regardles whether theres someone there or not....

Prof.Badass

look i'm not going to provide a link but i remeber reading in some **** paper like the metro that scientists disproved it.

It doesn't make any logical sense. People will always try and justify their actions.

Truth is they'd rather risk getting sick than miss out on chocolate:p

Ruu_Old

Doop wrote: »

I abide by the 5 second rule also... except if its buttered bread/ toast.... WHY does it always land butter side down....?
more importantly WHY do i keep dropping my food ?!

There was a Mythbusters episode on it.

ART6

There is a corner in our kitchen where the dog likes to sit while waiting for his food. If anything drops there I tend to abandon it:rolleyes:

unit88

i belive in the 10 second rule but the worst ive been involved in is the drinking the half drunk bottle to see if its still fresh in school

pickarooney

I usually let the baby pick it up and take a chomp out of it. If he doesn't come over all queer within the hour, it's all good.

CtrlSource

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Do you mean the 10 minute rule?:)

My thought exactly!

Call Me Jimmy

Sure cutlery is a waste of money when we've all got perfectly good floors. Nothing more satisfying than eating a good meal off the floor!

ciano1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVks

Draupnir

I once ate a meatball that rolled off a mates Subway and rolled across the ground into the middle of Dame Street, the actual driving part. Made a fiver from it and am still alive two years later.

I think all these rules are unnecessary.

_blank_

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

*if i'm drunk then anything is fair game

Mate of mine, in a pub in Wales.

Pint of snakebite, last orders is gone.

Snakebite falls onto manky student union bar carpet.

Mate then scoops what he can back into his plastic "glass" and downs it.

Full of fur and other assorted goodness from the carpet.

captainzapp

the way i see it, when i was a baby crawling around on the floor, i would pick anything up and pop it in my mouth. if it didn't bother me then, why should it bother me now!

Celticfire

I go with the behind the cussions of the couch rule...... finders, keepers....

My new years resolution was to give up chocolate. ~sniff~

AFC_1903

Hell yeah! I'll eat most things, but it depends on both the foodstuff and the location. Ice cream on a football pitch? No thanks. Chocolate that's been on a fairly clean carpet for a few mins? No bother!

challengemaster

In china, when eating, never mind the floor, if it falls anywhere at all, tablecloth, etc, you don't touch it again.

BraziliaNZ

I don't give a sh*t, especially if you're going to cook the food. At bbqs we always drop chicken/fish on the ground etc and then just lash it back on the grill, the ground is probably cleaner than you think, plus heat kills bacteria anyway

stevecrow74

|-*SxyDubGrrl93*-| wrote: »

if it falls in ****, you're probably better off not eating it.. but to be quite honest your hands and mouth are likely to be far filthier than most surfaces your chocolate bar will fall on.

any street packed with nightclubs at 4am.. my hands are definitely cleaner..

if it drops, bin it... unless its half cooked then its back in the pan