Today's favorite comment comes from Consumerist, where our post, Asylum Debunks 10 Gross Food Myths,
sparked a heated debate over the "five second rule." Jedipunk referred us to a study that puts the rule to the test:

"The Connecticut team wanted to test the rule in a non-lab environment (how many people smear their floors with E. coli?). It took about 1 minute for the apple slices to develop bacteria and 5 minutes for the Skittles, so the researchers concluded that the standard should be 30 seconds, with a notation that dry and/or porous foods may last for up to 1 minute and still be safe to eat.

All of this is good to know when you drop a couple pieces of popcorn at home and scoop them up again, but negative test results aren't enough to make me want to eat a piece of food dropped on the floor of a public cafeteria no matter how long it is considered to be 'safe to eat.'"

But what if your public cafeteria really feels like home?