Bohdin has been obsessed lately asking whether things are yucky or good. Is the chip that was left out yucky or good? What about the juice that has been sitting in the cup? What about the bean he dropped on the floor? And the other bean?
If you think about it there really are some complex rules to what is still yucky or good. A juice box is fine left in the trunk of my car until it is opened and then it has to go in the refrigerator. A snack left in the car while we run into the store can be good or yucky upon return depending on the weather. I let him eat things he has dropped on the floor at home but not at the store. Then there is just individual variation. If you leave a pizza out all night is it yucky or good? Yucky in my mind but others would disagree.
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At what age do you introduce the 5 second rule?
There was a very large pile of poop outside our building the other day. If Bohdin had dropped a jelly bean in that spot the day after it was picked up it would become yucky the instant it hit the ground. There is no 5 second leeway there.
I don't want to become a paranoid but having accidents with Bohdin I don't want to confess makes me see that the outside world is quite dirty.
what part of the 5 second rule don't you understand? It doesn't matter where it drops as long as he picks it up in 5 seconds.
here you can read this to Bohdin. I especially like the variation about allowing someone else to pick it up.
The five-second rule is a popular polite fiction regarding the eating of food that has fallen to the floor or ground. The origins of the rule are unknown. The substance of the rule is that if food falls on the ground, it may be safely eaten as long as it is picked up within 5 seconds.
There are many variations on the rule. Sometimes the time limit is modified so that it is known variously as the "three-second rule", "seven-second rule", "the five-minute rule" etc. In some variations, the person picking up the food arbitrarily extends the time limit based on the actual amount of time required to retrieve the food.
Another variation of the rule is that if the item of food dropped is not picked up by the person who dropped it, the item of food can be picked up by anyone, but only after leaving the owner five seconds to pick it up.
Is there a rule for how long food can be left out before it is yucky? I would ask dad but I'm pretty sure any real rule would require refrigeration of perishable foods at some point.
I told Bohdin the 5 second rule and he wants to know why.
I would suggest telling him "Because Uncle Paul said so," but that could set a very bad precedent. Very bad.
Pretty sure they did a test for this on Myth Busters and they found that it doesn't matter how long, food dropped can pick up bacteria within 2 seconds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule
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