MeanLaureen's Useless Poll of the Day - TGIF

[MeanLaureen]

Happy Friday Everyone!

So how is your weekend shaping up so far? Here in Richmond the temperature has gotten so much nicer! We are a sunny 71 degrees right now. I'm sure it will hit 90 before the end of the day though

I thought I would make today's poll topic quick and simple and ask about one of the age old rules of life

The 5 second rule

For those of you that don't know what the 5 second rule is: If food falls on the floor and you are able to pick it up within 5 seconds, it's still edible because everyone knows that germs take a good 6 seconds or more to adhere

So..

"Do you follow the 5 second rule?"

 

[MeanLaureen]

I had to add option 6 after being informed by my husband than manly food gets 10 seconds

 

[Pop Daddy]

depends on the floor

 

[onecoolmama]

I dont at all. Ask me if I let my kids..that is a different story

 

[Eeyore1954]

I do -- but only at home.

 

[dianeschlicht]

LOL, we joke about this all the time! It really depends on the floor. I'll pick something up off a floor I know to be clean, but you would NEVER see me pick something up off the ground or the kennel room and put it in my mouth!

 

[Nutsy]

Nope, my dogs eats it

 

[CourtasanSatine]

guilty,I snap food off the floor before the 5 seconds is up

 

[MeanLaureen]

 

[cati]

I am pleading the 5th... LOL

 

[monarchsfan16]

Sometimes, but only at home, or at the home of the person I babysit for (ok so I admit occasionally snatching one or 2 cheerios from the toddler), but that's because I know those floors are clean. At school the 5 second rule doesn't even apply to food that touches the table. Whenever there's a fight in the cafeteria people jump up on the tables and stand on them to watch, and that's gross.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I voted for 10 seconds!

 

[gallaj0]

I voted for 10 seconds, but it only applies to my home. And you do have to give it a look, and make sure it didn't land on something that's been down there longer, that's just gross.

 

[Pin Wizard]

"Heck, no!" Anything that lands on the floor is then the dogs' possession.

 

[joats]

As a kid I did now I'm too germ phobic for that! DH does. I leave mine for the cats.

 

[monkeyboy]

"Do you follow the 5 second rule?"

Glad to see it's a food thread

 

[MJTinNH]

Nope, never. Once it lands it's lost forever. Besides if the dogs are around it won't last 5 seconds on the floor.