Under what circumstances can food be eaten off the ground?
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food can almost always be eaten of the ground if it is snatched from the ground in less than 30 seconds (if you live in new york city). if you live outside of new york city, 30 seconds is okay. if you live in the suburbs, you could wait at least 45 seconds before picking that food up and stuffing it back in your mouth.
food that has fallen into any kind of manure, or into a sewer, or onto a subway grate or onto any public bus floor should not be eaten at any point.
I suppose if you are an animal that is used to eating shit on the ground then it is ok... in your home it is pretty cool too... in any public space... not good dude.
there are several factors to consider here: 1. wet or dry food? 2. visible debris collected on said food (however slight) 3. did it fall on the grass? urban street/sidewalk? kitchen floor? living room floor?
for the sake or agument, i will use a 10-second rule for anything that falls on my floor at my place, assuming it is dry. if it's wet, it's tossed, sorry 'bout that. nyc/urban streets, i'm not eating it wet or dry. on the clean grass during a picnic? that's 30 seconds.
phil, i seem to remember a story about falafel with tahihi that fell on a SF sidewalk, correct me if i am wrong...
I say 3 seconds is the only suitable amount of time. However, any piece of fallen food must be inspected for hair, dust, dust bunnies, un-identifyable black things, etc... Also, if it falls into a wet place, no dice, and you can't eat anything that falls on the floor in the bathroom.
not eating food that has fallen to the ground is for pussies. i'll eat daal after it's fallen out of the bowl onto the needle encursted sidewalks of o'farrell street. god made dirt and dirt don't hurt (although god did also make aids and herpes).
I think in the Tenderloin in SF or midtown Manhattan there are different rules where instead of time on the ground you go by distance fromt he ground. So if something comes within 6 inches of the ground in one of those places, it's inedible.
totally depends. eating hair and dust and grains of sand or dirt is the worse so if food lands on ground with those things on it and said food is not an object that can be rinsed or wiped off, like say an apple, or totally dry and not prone to picking up hair, like a cracker or something then said food should not be eaten no matter how quickly it is picked up. If, however, we are talking about a cleanable food or any food dropped onto cloth or grass, I would totally chow down, no 5 second rule or anything.
hey phil do you remember when you ate that mystery meat off the ground at the festival in eugene? you didn't even see it drop so who knows how long it had been on the ground. that was cool.
Outdoor rule: almost never unless it's out of the city (I live in the Haight). 5-15 seconds apply out of the greater San Fran area. Rural/wooded areas get unlimited time.
Indoor rule: my ladyfriend and I have the Hawai'ian/Asian no-shoes-in-the-house thing so most can be eaten right off the floor. Some things get dusted/rinsed off first. Ice cubes in any home can be rinsed to 2/3 their original mass and be clean.
It can be eaten off the ground as long as the following holds: 1) it is not a public ground 2) it meets a certain time threshold. 3) who's ground is it?
The time threshold depends on how "clean" the ground is. The "cleaner" the ground, the longer until the food expires; usually within 5-10 seconds. However, when defining clean, familiarity of the ground and its dirt has to be considered. For example, my own apartment may be dirty, but as long as it is all MY dirt and filth (dirty underwear, cut off nails, hair, left-over food that was not eaten off a foreign ground previously, dried burb-vomit, etc) a technically "dirty" ground can qualify as clean, and food does not expire at all upon contact.
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food can almost always be eaten of the ground if it is snatched from the ground in less than 30 seconds (if you live in new york city). if you live outside of new york city, 30 seconds is okay. if you live in the suburbs, you could wait at least 45 seconds before picking that food up and stuffing it back in your mouth.
food that has fallen into any kind of manure, or into a sewer, or onto a subway grate or onto any public bus floor should not be eaten at any point.
I suppose if you are an animal that is used to eating shit on the ground then it is ok... in your home it is pretty cool too... in any public space... not good dude.
there are several factors to consider here: 1. wet or dry food? 2. visible debris collected on said food (however slight) 3. did it fall on the grass? urban street/sidewalk? kitchen floor? living room floor?
for the sake or agument, i will use a 10-second rule for anything that falls on my floor at my place, assuming it is dry. if it's wet, it's tossed, sorry 'bout that. nyc/urban streets, i'm not eating it wet or dry. on the clean grass during a picnic? that's 30 seconds.
phil, i seem to remember a story about falafel with tahihi that fell on a SF sidewalk, correct me if i am wrong...
I say 3 seconds is the only suitable amount of time. However, any piece of fallen food must be inspected for hair, dust, dust bunnies, un-identifyable black things, etc... Also, if it falls into a wet place, no dice, and you can't eat anything that falls on the floor in the bathroom.
not eating food that has fallen to the ground is for pussies. i'll eat daal after it's fallen out of the bowl onto the needle encursted sidewalks of o'farrell street. god made dirt and dirt don't hurt (although god did also make aids and herpes).
I think in the Tenderloin in SF or midtown Manhattan there are different rules where instead of time on the ground you go by distance fromt he ground. So if something comes within 6 inches of the ground in one of those places, it's inedible.
totally depends. eating hair and dust and grains of sand or dirt is the worse so if food lands on ground with those things on it and said food is not an object that can be rinsed or wiped off, like say an apple, or totally dry and not prone to picking up hair, like a cracker or something then said food should not be eaten no matter how quickly it is picked up. If, however, we are talking about a cleanable food or any food dropped onto cloth or grass, I would totally chow down, no 5 second rule or anything.
hey phil do you remember when you ate that mystery meat off the ground at the festival in eugene? you didn't even see it drop so who knows how long it had been on the ground. that was cool.
Outdoor rule: almost never unless it's out of the city (I live in the Haight). 5-15 seconds apply out of the greater San Fran area. Rural/wooded areas get unlimited time.
Indoor rule: my ladyfriend and I have the Hawai'ian/Asian no-shoes-in-the-house thing so most can be eaten right off the floor. Some things get dusted/rinsed off first. Ice cubes in any home can be rinsed to 2/3 their original mass and be clean.
phil would eat apple sauce off the ground.
It can be eaten off the ground as long as the following holds:
1) it is not a public ground
2) it meets a certain time threshold.
3) who's ground is it?
The time threshold depends on how "clean" the ground is. The "cleaner" the ground, the longer until the food expires; usually within 5-10 seconds.
However, when defining clean, familiarity of the ground and its dirt has to be considered. For example, my own apartment may be dirty, but as long as it is all MY dirt and filth (dirty underwear, cut off nails, hair, left-over food that was not eaten off a foreign ground previously, dried burb-vomit, etc) a technically "dirty" ground can qualify as clean, and food does not expire at all upon contact.
3) is not a threshold, I know, but it matters
if the food bounces it's still ok to eat.
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