Is it normal to eat food after it's fallen on the floor?

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Here's the situation. It was early in the morning. I woke up, filled a pot with water and turned on the stove. As the stove was cooking I went to the bathroom to wash up. I then came back out and dressed up. I came back to the stove and I put my food in the water after it started boiling. The food finished and I put it in a plate. I then went to put it on the table and 70% of the plate's contents fell on the floor. I didn't have time to make another meal so I took the food of the floor and ate it. Is it alright if I did so?

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Based on 93 votes (64 yes)
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  • dirtybirdy
    10 years ago

    Sure. As long as you don't wax the floors with dookie or some other shit.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Why would I wax my floors with my own feces? It sounds like you live in a birdca-- Oh, I see what you did there.

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    • shuggy-chan
      10 years ago

      Dookie, ur showing ur age birdy

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      • dirtybirdy
        10 years ago

        Damn it with the clumsy thumbs! You're grounded!

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        • shuggy-chan
          10 years ago

          that so earlier 90's it hurts hahaha

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          • RoseIsabella
            10 years ago

            Early 90's? Shugga, I was saying dookie in the 70's and 80's. Dookie is standard; it's timeless.

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            • shuggy-chan
              10 years ago

              that was its last hey day, no one under born past 1990 I doubt even uses that

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Birds eat bread thrown on the ground all the time.

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    • Shackleford96
      10 years ago

      Dookie is one of my favorite words, that and doofus :P

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  • ThatCreepyWhiteGuy
    10 years ago

    5 hour rule.

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    • DiamondGirl
      10 years ago

      Hey did u play Dark souls on PS3 your name sounds familiar?

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      • ThatCreepyWhiteGuy
        10 years ago

        No. I don't even have a ps3.

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        • DiamondGirl
          10 years ago

          Oh well, then there's another guy with your name then.

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          • ThatCreepyWhiteGuy
            10 years ago

            I hate it when people steal my names.

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  • handsignals
    10 years ago

    Your Asian aren't you?

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    • DiamondGirl
      10 years ago

      Don't b a hater of Asians. My husband is Asian. OK!

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      • ThatCreepyWhiteGuy
        10 years ago

        My wife is Asian.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      I'm not sure what asian stereotype you are referring to, but no. Not even close.

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      • handsignals
        10 years ago

        When you were a kid and dropped food on the floor your mother would have said 1 of 2 things:
        1. If she was a retard mother she would of said "you can't eat food off the floor"

        2. If she had a brain she would have told you just to brush it off it will be fine.

        If your an adult and have to ask this question on a website it makes you sound Chinese, people are 50/50 on 'should you eat food that's been dropped on the floor' so you can't decide for yourself because there's no "norm" so you don't know what you need to do to conform.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          Norms are what the majority of people accept to be true. This is what this website was made to show. The opinion of the majority.

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          • handsignals
            10 years ago

            It's a simple thing that your supposed to learn as a child if you need to go on a web site to ask it your fucked! You could google it and you would find out exactly the amount of bacterial content would have increased on your food. Or you could just use some common fucking sense brush the food off and eat it.

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              10 years ago

              Did I say I didn't brush it off?

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  • DannyKanes
    10 years ago

    Of course! It's not going to hurt you :)

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  • Ilovewinter12
    10 years ago

    Depends on the food.
    For exampple, if I dropped a cookie, or a chip on the floor, then I would eat it, but if it was like, cake, or soup, then no. It's strange how that works.

    Also, the 5-second rule is a myth. Germs can get onto food instantly when it's dropped on the floor.
    However, I'm sure everyone has eaten food off the floor at one point or another, and well, it never made me sick.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    As far as dropping food on the floor is concerned if it's a potato chip I'll eat it if its beef stew I won't.

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  • DiamondGirl
    10 years ago

    Who really gives a shit, but you shouldn't admit to it and then tell people! Dummy!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      I could care less talking to strangers on the internet.

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      • DiamondGirl
        10 years ago

        Oh God. more anonymous people! I don't know who u r, and I really don't know WTF your referring 2.

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