does the five second rule count if you drop noodles on the floor

[Protoss Dragoon]

i spilled them ;-;  sned help

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[Cavik]

I like to believe in the 5 minute rule.

[beachbum111111]

I like to believe in the 5 minute rule.

5 year for me

[Red Spy]

Food gets gross if you leave it on the floor for any amount of time

[kongo]

yeah right you did, you're just trying to capitalize on reddboi's noodle spilling success.

get outta here with your weak ass noodle scams

[ReddBoi]

i have had the same experience

[sir dooble]

Food gets gross if you leave it on the floor for any amount of time

It depends on the floor and how dirty it is.
If it was a solid laminate floor and as clean as a kitchen surface (which actually end up very very dirty) then you probably wouldn't mind if your food fell on it.

[Foxscotch]

it definitely depends on the floor
I would probably not eat anything even sort of wet or sticky that fell on a carpet, and I'd be careful about eating something like that that fell on a hard floor too
on the other hand, things like cereal, chips, etc. I would have no problem eating off my OWN floors, and probably would be fine doing it on other people's floors if it looked pretty clean. definitely not floors anywhere public, though

I don't really care about "germs" or whatever, as much as just, not wanting to eat like dirt or something unidentifiable that might've fallen before. which would stick to noodles and stuff like that and therefore be gross af

[Lord Tony®]

It only takes 0.05th of a second to collect germs.

People underestimate how fast germs spread.

[Juncoph]

It only takes 0.05th of a second to collect germs.

People underestimate how fast germs spread.

iirc it's faster

and while fluffier/wetter food might collect more VISIBLE debris, both wet and dry collect germs at the same speed.

[Foxscotch]

your hands are probably worse as far as germs go than whatever's on the floor

[Darth C3P0]

no such thing as 5 second rule, its just an excuse to eat food off the floor.
The Mythbusters tested to see if the 5 second rule was real but 5 seconds is way too long.

[sir dooble]

It only takes 0.05th of a second to collect germs.

People underestimate how fast germs spread.

It's not really that the germs spread of their own accord, as in them multiplying onto your food.
The average rate of microbial reproduction is 20 minutes.

But, germs are on the floor/surfaces, and when food falls onto the germs the germs get stuck on the food.
You've probably seen cartoons joking about the 5-second rule, where one germ tells the others to charge towards dropped food, but a leader germ says "Stop, we need to wait 5 seconds".

However germs don't travel towards food, or even multiply onto it (unless the food is left for a very long time).
So it really doesn't matter how long it takes you to pick it up, as the germs get stuck to the food instantly. It simply depends on how dirty the surface is, and therefore how many germs it touches.
In perfect conditions food could sit on an antiseptic surface all day and not become bad for you.
But as Foxscoth points out, unless it's an extremely dirty surface, the germs aren't the issue.
The biggest reason not to eat food from the floor is because it will likely be covered in soil, hairs, fibres and dust, which is not nice to put in your mouth.

[Eon]

sure does if you wanna get some nasty stuff in your mouth, goes for everything dropped on the floor too how convenient is that