Food On The Floor, Would You Eat It?

There is nothing on your floor that can kill you, including my cat's tail end. You could have just had an exterminator through there only moments ago, and it still won't even make you sick...a little dizzy, maybe, for a few minutes. You'd be in a little trouble if you had no digestive enzymes, white blood cells, and an immune system, but you'd be good as dead anyway, if that were so.

That said, in the land of plenty, most people (grown people) won't eat something that dropped on the floor. Someone working in a restaurant will lose their job if they use food that dropped on the floor. For that matter, medical professionals won't use a thermometer that touched the floor, or any surface that wasn't sanitized immediately before. I think there's a good reason why we're over-cautious about this stuff....it's because, if we weren't, we'd go the opposite way. Because we're kind of crazy.
 
JaniceM said:
Nope, no matter what the food is and no matter how clean the floor is.
I'll admit, though, that one time last year I did eat a sandwich my kitty sneezed on. :oops::ROFLMAO:
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I had a newly adopted kitty with the kitty cold. Green snot. She sneezed in my face. Not one ill effect. I don't think we get their colds and they don't get ours.
 
DaveA said:
For those of you who ABSOLUTELY wouldnt eat something that had fallen on the floor - - - -I hope that you've never eaten in a restaurant, high class or not. Back in the early 50's, when I was a teen, I worked as a busboy in a high class private club. In the kitchen, the things I saw dropped, picked up, put back on the plate - - -well, enuf said.
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Years ago at a fast food place (I don't go to them anymore.) I saw a bunch of drink cups pulled on the floor from the holder and an employee picked them up and put them back.
 
It's easier to eat food that's fallen on the floor than to eat food that's stuck to the ceiling.
Dry food that fell in an open space on the floor, I'd probably eat. Moist food or if it fell
under something else on the floor (a cabinet, the stove, etc.) nope, not eating that.
 
Remy said:
Years ago at a fast food place (I don't go to them anymore.) I saw a bunch of drink cups pulled on the floor from the holder and an employee picked them up and put them back.
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No surprise there, and that's just the cups! 🙄 If people ever got a real look at some restaurant kitchens and how food is handled, they'd never "eat out" again. 😳
 
Yes, on My floor but not out on the street somewhere. Still we are immune to many things through experience and age so I might eat something off the floor of a restaurant.
 
SeniorSally said:
It depends on where it was dropped. As my son has been known to say about his aunt’s house, “If I dropped a M & M on the floor there I’d throw away the whole bag.”
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I take it your son mops and disinfects your (his?) floors regularly? :unsure:

Don't you just love it when men criticise women for the cleanliness of their homes. :rolleyes:

Full marks for his witty comment though. (y)
 
Remy said:
I had a newly adopted kitty with the kitty cold. Green snot. She sneezed in my face. Not one ill effect. I don't think we get their colds and they don't get ours.
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I had a Lab years ago. He started coughing & I took him to the Vet. After she did a culture, she said, "Don't let him kiss you & don't kiss him & wash your hands after petting him because this is something he can give you."
When I smiled, she figured it out. I said,"Well, it's a little late; I've been kissing him for days." :)
 
Where I grew up there were acres of woods that the local kids spent many hours playing in and wandering through. We ate berries from the bushes, cherries and other fruits from the trees without bothering to wash them or our hands. We rarely bothered to go home if we needed a bathroom lest we get tapped to do some chores. Squatted behind a tree and wiped with non-poisonous leaves. Can't imagine how many times our dirty hands went into our mouths over the course of a day, but it was plenty.

We all survived and were rarely sick.

So yeah, I don't give a second thought to eating dry foods that have fallen on my floor - or my kids' floors. They're clean. Wet foods like an apple slice I'll give a quick rinse. If the floor has been freshly mopped and a piece of pizza fall face down, I'll give it a quick inspection and likely eat it. I have a dog and don't worry about what he's been walking in.

Because of my years roaming through woods I'm not particularly squeamish nor am I afraid of most germs and bacteria found in nature.
 
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