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It does depend on the food in question - if I drop a sweet or something non-sticky, I will pick it up and eat it without hesitation. If however it's going to bring a measure of dirt and fluff with it, then i will throw it in the bin.
I've watched all my girls pick things up and eat them as I've drawn breath to stop them, and none of us have come to any hardm, so unless the floor is filthy, I wouldn;t worry too much about it.
i think there is too much 'antibacterial' this and that. it's probably all this over emphasis on sterile conditions that has reduced our ability to fight 'germs'. i can speak from experience when i tell you that eating worms did me no harm when i was a child!
surely common sense says that the 'germs' will hitch a ride when there is contact (just like head lice do!)
Been around the U.S. for years, understood here as a joke. Here's what Wikipedia has to say:
The five second rule is sometimes called the three-second rule, 10-second rule, or the 15-second rule, to some extent depending on the quality of the food involved or the intoxication level of the individual quoting the rule. For example, in American college dormitories the ten-second rule is often quoted as the "drunk version" of the five-second rule. In addition, there is the 17-minute rule, a humourous observation that the transferrence of dirt and germs takes place regardless of how short a time the food is in contact with the ground.
It is also widely believed that, in the home, the five-second rule can be extended to at most 15 seconds. In public places and restaurants, however, the amount of time is generally shortened.
In Brazil, people used to say o que n�o mata, engorda ("if it doesn't kill, it makes you fat") before eating something that has fallen on the floor. This applies also to Spanish speaking countries, lo que no mata, engorda, and in Italy, Quel che non ammazza, ingrassa. Obviously, the evocation doesn't mean much, because spoiled food can both "kill you" (do you harm) and make you fat. The Chilean version of this rule is chancho limpio no engorda ("A clean pig does not get fat"). In Southern Germany, the saying goes Dreck macht Speck ("Dirt makes bacon").
Seems sticky foods have agreatly shortened version of the rule than, say potato chips, etc...
A similar saying in Germany used the same way goes Dreck reinigt den Magen ("Dirt cleans the stomach").
ha ha, don't know about eating a bucket of muck shaneystar, but I agree with what else you said.
I cannot stand over the top neatness. life is just too short.
I believe that breathing in all those cleaning products is much worse for us than a bit of dust!
I can never feel comfortable in someones house when they are clearly too fastidious.
i always think of hyacinth buckets poor neighbour! lol