If you dropped the last M&M/Godiva Chocolate on the floor, you would

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: If you dropped the last M&M/Godiva Chocolate on the floor, you would

[MissMillie]

1. depends on what floor

doesn't it?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Let's say we're talking about the floor of the butcher shop or fish market

instead of the microchip clean room at Intel, LOL.

[MissMillie]

5. nope

wouldn't do it.

[kick-ass-bob]

3. blow on it twice, then eat it.

that second blast of air gets everything off.

:P

[bertha katzenengel]

4. Oh, hell, 3-second rule, 5-second rule -- it takes me 30 seconds to

bend over! I'd just eat the damn thing! Then I'd look around for whatever else I could do while I was down there.

[NMMNG]

6. If it was an M&M, screw it

But a Godiva--those things cost an arm and a leg. I'd pick it up, dust it off and eat it.

[orleans]

7. kick it under the couch

jk

[mwdem]

8. Just fucking eat it.

fer christ's sake, it's chocolate!!!!

[Az]

9. The 5 second rule has been demostrated to be true

Actually the study found that in the absense of E Coli being present you could eat something that had remained on the ground for up to nearly 10 seconds without fear of contamination. The wild card is E Coli. If that bug is around the candy is tainted on contact.

This study won an iGnoble award IIRC.