Get That Out Of Your Mouth

Have you ever enacted the 5 second rule after dropping food on the floor?  Do you pick up quickly, brush it off, and pop it in your mouth anyway?   I don’t have to worry about it at my house because the dog has snatched it up long before I could get to it, but I do admit to implementing the 5 second rule in the past.  The thing is I know how clean my floors are….right?  Not according to experts.  They are calling the 5 second rule a myth, an urban legend, that could potentially lead to serious illness.  Their logic is “you wouldn’t touch your finger to the ground for five seconds and then lick it.  Well, no…not unless it food on it.