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pipi_k

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Reply to lost-in-nj (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 08:43 AM

Mar 2013

my own home, yes, but I also take the precaution of wiping whatever it is off on my sleeve just in case.

Elsewhere, no.

Not even if it only falls out of my plate and onto the table instead of the floor.

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Does anyone here followor use the 5 second rule? [View all] lost-in-nj Mar 2013 OP

Not in my own house, hell no. NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #1

I've been in your house. cliffordu Mar 2013 #2

yet you loved the burritos from the truck around the corner... NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #4

Them fucking burritos RULE!!!! cliffordu Mar 2013 #5

Depends on what it and how hungry I am. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #3

Around here that's 4 seconds too slow to beat the Marcy Monster hobbit709 Mar 2013 #6

no no no 840high Mar 2013 #7

Kinda. I always thought it was a 15 second rule Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #8

In... pipi_k Mar 2013 #9

Only when retrieving a morsel dropped by my macaw. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #10

Hell yeah I do. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2013 #11

In a house with ten cats? Bertha Venation Mar 2013 #12

I follow the 10 or 15 minute rule pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #13

If you do that... pipi_k Mar 2013 #14

I bow to your superior knowledge of noodle hydration pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #16

It's me vs the mice! JVS Mar 2013 #15

If it's only five seconds... bluesbassman Mar 2013 #17

My food or others'? It depends. Dash87 Mar 2013 #18