View Poll Results: At a restaurant, a piece of your dinner falls onto the table. Do you still eat it?
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07-01-2009, 03:25 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Do you eat food if it falls on the table?
Okay, so, picture this: You are out at a restaurant. You're eating a burrito and a chunk of meat falls out onto the table. Do you pick it up and eat it, or not? Does the 5-second rule apply?
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07-01-2009, 03:42 PM #2AKA "Faze"
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Well, not with a burrito, as that's wet and will pick up dirt and germs and whatever, but like a fry, sure, 5 seconds.
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07-01-2009, 03:45 PM #3Standard Nerd
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I'm really picky with my food, if I see something like a hair on it, I remove the hair but still leave that bit.. no idea why it just makes me feel ill
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07-01-2009, 03:55 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Most places do not properly clean their tables. You need to remember that the "industry" standards and enforcements (for the USA) for food serving places are an extremely low standard ... meaning the tables are not properly cleaned ...
So to answer ... hell no.1. Mmmmm food...
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07-01-2009, 04:02 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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No.... I wait until nobody is looking and flick it to the floor.
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07-01-2009, 04:10 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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I rather not eat a piece of a burito that has fallen off the table. I'll just leave it there.
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07-01-2009, 05:09 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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07-01-2009, 05:47 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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If I am in public, I do not eat it. At home, I will, but it depends on how hungry I am and what it is. BTW, why would you eat a burrito at a restaurant. That is ridiculous.
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07-01-2009, 05:51 PM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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Yeah, I would eat it. However it depends who I'm with, if I'm with some friends, I will flick it at them. but otherwise, I would eat it.
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07-01-2009, 06:12 PM #10Just a Customer, Not a Host.
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Not at all. Call me picky! I don't even eat it at home.
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07-01-2009, 06:20 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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It Differs from the type ofFoods your eating, i think..
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07-01-2009, 06:26 PM #12Hosting Billing Master
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I think it depends what restaurant I'm at.. if I'm eating a burrito I'm probably somewhere like Chipotle, in which case, I'd consider it. If I'm at a place where a real person brings me my food and expects a tip afterward and it aint on my plate, I aint eatin it.
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07-01-2009, 06:28 PM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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Depends on the type of food if it's wet no and if not then why not it's food
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07-01-2009, 10:06 PM #14Retired Moderator
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07-02-2009, 12:49 AM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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Tabasco kills anything! Eat it!
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07-02-2009, 12:50 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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5 second rule but it really depends on what. Like mentioned, if it's wet then hell no, but if it's chips/candy/fruit, yea for sure!
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07-02-2009, 01:33 AM #18Ahh! I'm sideways!
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Interestingly enough, I read this title and vote NO on the poll immediately... but then I stop to think of all of the times that I pick things up and eat them after I drop them on the floor.
But I never remember eating it off the table and my first thought was GROSS. Hmmmm...
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07-02-2009, 01:40 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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I have done it before but 90% of the time i dont.
There's more disgusting thing's i see people do though. For example people here are probably saying NO! i wont eat it but i bet one of those people who say NO! dont wash their hand's after using the restroom and still will eat like that. I think we all have ate something that has fell on a table no matter how much you wanna hide it Oh come on admit it.... oh come on stop trying to hold it in〓〓 RackNerd LLC - Introducing Infrastructure Stability
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07-02-2009, 02:11 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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Why each of you have to be so clean? Our body are designed to take in germs, and in fact, being a bit dirty is good for your health, according to a episode in National Geographic.
Is it just been cool to your peers that you are clean?
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07-02-2009, 07:31 AM #21is a threadkiller
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At a restaurant, hell no. At home, it depends on the kind of food and how messy my desk is at the time. After all isn't this what the human immune system is supposed to protect against?
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07-02-2009, 12:54 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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Personally, I'll eat anything. Your liver is supposed to kill everything bad for you such as dirt and what not. I've eaten food off the floor (if no presticide has been sprayed that I know of). People are too scared now-a-days thats MHO.
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07-02-2009, 01:03 PM #23
Heck NO. I don't know where that table's been !!
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07-02-2009, 01:12 PM #24working on it
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Eat it guys....unless you want some poor African kids to starve to death from global food shortage... or some rainforests destroyed to grow more food
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