Is the Five-Second Rule Legit?
<p>When you major in Food Science you’re confronted with course work about every single foodborne illness and bad bacteria.</p>
<p>You memorize which disease gives people explosive diarrhea and which simply gives regular diarrhea. I’m not joking, there was a distinction.</p>
<p>The least enjoyable part was spending two lecture hours watching a documentary on mad cow disease. It was incredibly disturbing and made me stop eating hamburgers for a couple weeks before I gave into their juicy goodness.</p>
<p>All this curriculum on how food can get contaminated and make you sick, and I still find myself following the five second rule. At least in my own house.</p>
<p>Being in public is a totally different story.</p>
<p>It’s not that I think the bacteria are counting to five m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i before they hitch a ride, I just cannot stand the thought of more food waste.</p>
<p>Is this a good enough reason? I don’t know…</p>
<p>But, I figured if I studied ice cream for my PhD, some laboratory has surely tried to confirm the five-second rule. And boy, I was not disappointed.</p>
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