The Five Second Rule

[StoopTroup]

Does this always apply?

5Second Rule (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVks&feature=dir)

Discuss....

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[OCUDad]

Not for soup.

[OzarkSooner]

Anything that is sticky and might pick up effluvia is OUT!!

[GottaHavePride]

Mythbusters decided it has little to do with how long somethin touches the floor, and a lot more to do with what it was you dropped. Something hard and realtively non-porous, like a cracker, won't pick up much, but something moist or sticky, like a piece of bologna, will pick up a ton of stuff even from very brief contact.

[VeeJay]

I check it for hair.

If it's hairless, it's probably OK.

[Suerreal]

Two seniors at Connecticut College just published their research on this very question.
Results here: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/3464.cfm

[Frozen Sooner]

Mythbusters decided it has little to do with how long somethin touches the floor, and a lot more to do with what it was you dropped. Something hard and realtively non-porous, like a cracker, won't pick up much, but something moist or sticky, like a piece of bologna, will pick up a ton of stuff even from very brief contact.

I'm pretty sure that if you're already eating bologna, you shouldn't be that concerned about what comes off your kitchen floor.

[Chuck Bao]

I'm pretty sure that if you're already eating bologna, you shouldn't be that concerned about what comes off your kitchen floor.

Bite your tongue!

[Frozen Sooner]

Don't get me wrong. I like that stuff. But I can't think there's anything on your kitchen floor that's going to be worse for you than it.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Don't get me wrong. I like that stuff. But I can't think there's anything on your kitchen floor that's going to be worse for you than it.

I have to agree. Only not with the part about "I like that stuff".

[Chuck Bao]

Okay, so just throw it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Good to go.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Okay, so just throw it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Good to go.

What? The bologna? Microwaving it makes it good to go?


Nothing makes bologna good to go.



And that article up there surprises me...I think my rule is more if it is dry, 5 seconds in acceptable...if it is a wet or sticky food, there is no hope for it and out it goes.

[Chuck Bao]

What? The bologna? Microwaving it makes it good to go?

Nothing makes bologna good to go.

Bite your tongue!

[OCUDad]

Bite your tongue!Beats bologna.

[afs]

mahna mahna....do doo de di do

[sooner_born_1960]

Hey, if I find it before the cat does, it's mine. I don't care how long it's been there.

[OSUAggie]

BBQ bologna is muy bueno.

Oscar Meyer bologna sucks.

Or are you people talking about health-wise?

[Chuck Bao]

Now, I like grilled tongue. A lot. Don't tell me it's like unhealthy or anything.

[Frozen Sooner]

You know what's really tasty?

Fry you up some bologna. When it cups in the middle, flip it over and poach an egg in there.

[GottaHavePride]

My uncle used to do that. the frying bologna part, not the egg-poaching in it.

Bologna is basically the same thing as an Italian mortadella but with a MUCH finer grind. And I think the same way about bologna that I do abou hot dogs - if you're buying from a good butcher there should be no concerns about the quality of meat going into that stuff.

[ChickSoonerFan]

*gag*

[Frozen Sooner]

Well, I wouldn't eat the bologna-poached egg after it fell on the floor. That's just gross.

[Preservation Parcels]

You know what's really tasty?

Fry you up some bologna. When it cups in the middle, flip it over and poach an egg in there.


My brother-in-law loves fried bologna - all 350 lbs. of him.:pop: