Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 28, 2008

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    writesong  about 16 years ago

    I don’t get it.

    Can someone explain what I’m looking at?

    What is the “Five Second Rule”?

    What does this have to do with eating potato (or corn?)chips?

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    aedra6  about 16 years ago

    Someday John someone will have to expaline it to you. I’m with Danae by the way… ewwww.

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    ozzimandius  about 16 years ago

    Simply put if food is on the floor five seconds or less its safe to pick it up and eat it cause it has not had time to become “dirty or germy”…. Thus the five second rule. Not sure when it was invented, but it came into more public light in the movie osmosis Jones when bill murays character picked up a Hard bolied egg from the fecal pile of a monkey or some such criter in a zoo and ate it, and the animated part of the movie began.

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    shippingtroll  about 16 years ago

    it actually STARTED as the 10 second rule, but it was pets that turned it into the 5 second rule…

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    Wildmustang1262  about 16 years ago

    Ewww! That must be very grossly disgusted! Ack!

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    dbkodomo  about 16 years ago

    Unfortunately, the 5-Second Rule has been disproved. I think Mythbusters tackled it a while back and, more recently, it came up on the Food Network’s “Food Detectives”. They scientifically proved that the 5-Second Rule does not work, especially for wet, porous, or oily foods. Chips fall into that latter category. If you drop a fried chip on the floor, it will pick up germs immediately. Eat it at your own risk.

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    robertolopez144  about 16 years ago

    There you go, a lesson well learned by all………!

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    flammable_feline  about 16 years ago

    that is a brilliant explanation. Wiley is a genious. I’ve actually heard (and used) 2sec, 5 sec, 8sec and 10sec rules… just depends on how fast you pick it up, and how much you want to eat it…

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    tobybartels  about 16 years ago

    The five-second rule: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Five%5Fsecond%5Frule%5FWikiWorld.png

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    pheonixeaglescorpion  7 months ago

    Fortunately for me, I’m immune to practically everything, so I don’t have to worry about eating food that I’ve dropped on the floor. Whatever germs it picks up will be dealt with by my superior immune system.

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