Talk:Five-second rule

message: Grammar and writing style is poor throughout, but especially in first two paragraphs e.g. "Also, some people think it's pronounced Five-Second "Roll" instead of Five-Second Rule." Sources?  [unsigned]
What is 'bologna', other than a city in Italy? Ermoxermox (talk) 09:45, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I took that sentence out because it was unsourced and kind of silly, but I don't see any other serious problems. Bologna sausage, also known as "baloney" is a common lunch meat. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:55, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? Bologna? 

message: It may shock you to find out that it might be MORE dangerous to eat food that you just dropped on your floor in the kitchen than on a sidewalk." 
Is it really needed for the word 'more' to be in caps? I feel its not needed at all... [unsigned]
:Has any research been carried out on how many people actually get sick from food that has fallen on the floor?  Sure, it may pick up bacteria, but that doesn't neccessarily translate to health risk/illness.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.118.98 (talk) 04:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect any research into the number of people who actually get ill from eating 3/5/10 second food wouldn't get past the ethics milestone. It would be a very brave researcher who deliberately gave subjects food poisoning particularly as part of a study in to something we all know is a light hearted urban myth.92.40.235.160 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:53, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under research  

message: I, and probably a lot of other people, first heard of this via a TV commercial where some guy drops a cookie on the kitchen floor and says: "five [or 3] second rule; that cookie's still good." Can't remember what product was being promoted, but it was completely unrelated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.105.137 (talk) 22:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV commercial 

message: Was any of the food tested for contamination BEFORE dropping it???  Tiyang (talk) 22:46, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just Wondering 

message: Surely it is three seconds.  This is the way I've always heard of it.  I can't find any reliable sources, but both urban dictionary and uncyclopedia agree. Guinness2702 (talk) 13:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've also only heard of this as the 3 second rule... The 5 second thing seems to be fairly recent. Kaetemi (talk) 11:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

text: I've also only heard it as 3. --User123o987name (talk) 03:06, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Five?? 

message: What's up with the image? Is there really any need for it? K0R0M0 (talk) 04:21, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: no, there is no "need" for it. But don't you agree it's funny? 93.219.190.206 (talk) 16:48, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Not one word is said as to the origin of the phrase or how old it is. CFLeon (talk) 19:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, I just came to make the same point. This article is lacking in a History section. There must be some early published reports of the 5 second rule. OmniArticleEditor (talk) 13:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin?

message: A superstition is something actually believed, whether true or not. But my understanding of the 5 second rule is that it is a pretense, for convenience. When invoked, nobody actually believes that the 5 second rule is true, other than perhaps children. Instead, the 5 second rule provides a socially acceptable way of carrying on as if nothing had happened, after some food has fallen onto a dirty surface.
I believe the justification for the 5 second rule would go something like this: Things have dropped before, and been eaten afterward, and nobody gets sick. Therefore, eating things from the floor is safe enough to be tolerated when the alternative is the creation of a lot of new work. I think the "5 second" part is a bit of a joke, really, and that everybody understands that nothing changes after 1 or 5 or 60 seconds. But the invocation of the 5 second rule makes light of the situation, and allows things to return quickly to normal with no fuss.
Note that people would be far less inclined to eat a piece of buttered toast that fell face down -- even for 1 second -- than a piece of unbuttered toast. Why? Wet foods (like butter, icing, jam, etc.) are presumed to pick up too much dust and dirt, whereas dry foods are presumed to pick up far less.
Why am I writing this here? Before changing the article, I'd like to throw out the notion of removing the reference to superstition, since I don't think anyone truly believes the 5 second rule (except children). Instead of a superstition, I'd prefer to refer to it as a piece of cultural humor. But if someone has a better phrase, please suggest it (or just put it in). I'm not married to the phrase, but I would like to divorce the article from "superstition".
Danfreedman (talk) 04:06, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't seem like a superstition to me 

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message: When I first heard of this '5-second rule', I thought it must be a joke because it is so baseless, arbitrary, and un-scholarly (in other word incredibly stupid). I was shocked to find out that even one person takes it seriously.
2600:1700:4CA1:3C80:ED78:EA7D:6EE1:95DA (talk) 22:42, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joke? 

message: I want to add a image to Five-Second Rule
RobloxFanEditor (talk) 06:32, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erm 

message: Can an article about the 5 second rule game be added?Cwater1 (talk) 16:29, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game 

message: The article intro states it is a "myth", then goes on to say there's "no scientific consensus on the general applicability of the rule". --2001:1C06:19CA:D600:F3F:1EB2:7B07:55E2 (talk) 12:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Myth?