One day at work I noticed a collegue of mine would wash her can of soda under the faucett before she would open it and drink from it. I asked her why she did this to which she replied that a family member worked in a warehouse that housed cans of beer (or whatever) and that rats and rodents would crawl over these cans and would contaminate them with urine and fecal matter.
I know that the FDA allows for some contamination IN the food but I was wondering if the same rules apply for this?
Is my soda-pop can contaminated on the outside of the lip cover? Have I been duped into drinking volumes of rat-piss my entire life?
Or is this another Urban Legend?
This is more of a GQ than a GD. You’re new to the SDMB, so you may not have heard of http://www.snopes.com. It is your friend for debunking urban legends, glurge, and e-mail nonsense. The rebuttal to this particular UL is here: http://www.snopes.com/toxins/raturine.htm
But let me put it this way. Do you notice if your friend is never sick, always healthy and never down? I doubt it. I’m sure she still get’s the yearly cold, the occasional sick day… It’s not worth the effort. I also doubt that every soda storage place has rats dancing on the cans. I’m also pretty sure that that “friend of a friend” worked at that storage place years ago, I’m sure it wasn’t even in this decade. She also most likely got the worse version of the story, you know, the one told at parties to impress others w/ ones knowledge. This thread is a waste of time.
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I moved your original thread here, to the General Questions forum, since it does not seem the sort of question to inspire a Great Debate. If you cannot find a thread in the forum you originally posted it in, your best bet is to check the moderator’s “Moved threads” thread, where all the threads moved out of their forum is posted. I am locking this thread as a duplicate.
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