Food on the Floor

[Mr Pantomime]

So, I got home today, and went to plug something into my powerboard under my desk. While I was down there, I found a jellybean. I couldnt for the life of me remember the last time I had jellybeans, but I ate it.

So, do you eat things off the floor? And at what point would you not?

Edit: I should mention I had vaccuumed two days before, and later realised that it was from a party pack of lollies I had the night before. Not that any of that crossed my mind at the time

 

[drbarno]

If I just dropped the food accidently on the floor? yes
If it's been on the floor for a while? no.

 

[Astoria]

If it's small and been on the floor I never eat it. Larger things, it depends on how long its been on the floor and what part of the floor.

 

[Mr. Omega]

If I can't remember when I dropped it, or if the food has a lot of dirt sticking to it, I won't eat it. Otherwise, bottoms up!

 

[Queen Michael]

Yesterday I was at a sushi place and dropped some lettuce on the floor. I picked it up and ate it.

 

[The_Healer]

If I see when it hits the ground and decide to eat it immediately, yes.

Granted that the ground isn't covered in anything gross.

 

[RollingThunder]

No... just... no, me and my friend eat in a pizza restaurant once and he dropped his pizza underneath the table, he took it, clean it up a bit and eat it as usual. Now, this is a restaurant, where numerous people. wearing shoes sit and bringing in lots of dirts from outside, imagining that already quite nauseating.

 

[Palademon]

I'll eat food I've just dropped, providing it isn't hairy from my floor.

 

[Shade184]

Thirty-second rule (however scientifically incorrect it might be), or more if it's still clean.

 

[Abbyrose07]

It depends on what it is...usually I let my dogs eat it or wash it off with water...

 

[antidonkey]

If the food has been there for an indeterminate amount of time.......then no. I do not eat it. It winds up in the trash or the vaccuum and then the trash.

 

[Plurralbles]

... Unless it was wrapped I would not eat food off the floor.

Heck, a guy I know won a science fair for proving that bacteria attached to food the very moment it touched the ground(five second rule debunked)

 

[hazabaza1]

5 second rule in my house.
Anywhere else no.

 

[loc978]

When I find something on the floor that has been there an indeterminate amount of time... well... it depends on what kind of food.
Hard candy=I'd probably eat it as long as its not covered in dust or something.
Anything perishable=It's going in the fireplace. Now.

 

[thylasos]

Well, yeah... clear off any fluff and you're reet.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

As far as the jelleybean, I don't blame you. would've done the same. For food on the floor in general, I follow the 3 second rule

 

[bulldogftw]

If it's still clean I will eat it.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

If I can't remember when I dropped it, or if the food has a lot of dirt sticking to it, I won't eat it. Otherwise, bottoms up!

This.

Soup is a no-go though.

 

[Daveeo]

If I just dropped the food accidently on the floor? yes
If it's been on the floor for a while? no.

Same as this, if im unsure of how long it have been on the floor i rather throw it away.

 

[Macgyvercas]

We have a dog rule at my house (you beat the dog to the dropped item, you can eat it).