Let your four legged vacuum cleaner with the waggily tail clean it up?
Drop a glass of milk on it?
Buy a new house?
I sincerely want to know. What you do with a cookie on the kitchen floor says a lot about you ya know.
Me? I’d pick it up and eat it. No reason to be distressed about a dropped cookie as far as I’m concerned. The chances of it killing me or making me sick are so thin I imagine, that they’re probably not even worth considering. Who ever died from eating a cookie that fell on the floor?
Assuming it didn’t fall into one of the pet’s dishes, I’d eat it. Even if it did fall into a pet’s dish, by the way, I’d pick it up and throw it out rather than let the dog eat it. I’ve spent too much time and effort teaching him not to eat found items to let him start with things I drop.
Cookies are the perfect junk food. Sweet, delicious, portable. What could be better?
Gooey or not, I’d eat that puppy as long as it didn’t land in the dog food. That’s assuming that it fell on MY floor. I’m not so sure I’d eat someone else’s dirt on my cookie. Some how my dirt is cleaner than everyone else’s dirt.
I don’t have a problem with applying the 5-second rule to periods of time much closer to 10 or 20 seconds. You just go “five second rule!” and if anyone points out that it was more than five, you ignore them and quietly eat your cookie.
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BUT, don’t let your dog have it if there’s chocolate in it. Chocolate is apparently really dangerous for dogs.
The kinds of cookies that I tend to eat usually smash into a million pieces if they hit a hard floor, rendering them inedible to me. If they hit carpet, I don’t eat them either, because well…eeuuww. It just seems gross to me.
Ditto on the usually. Depends on the cookie and the floor. I keep my kitchen floor pretty darn clean, so even a gooey cookie (unless falling apart gooey) can be safely rescued.
If the floor isn’t my floor and it’s just a dry cookie? Why bother? Come to think of it, I don’t eat desserts unless they’re totally decadent. I don’t waste my free day calories on anything but the best.
No problem with eating it. We don’t have pets and we’re pretty good about keeping the floor clean, so unless it landed in a far corner under the garbage bag, I wouldn’t have any qualms about eating it.
If you saw what my floor looks like, you wouldn’t want to eat it, either. I’d let the dog eat it. (The dogs are one of the reasons you wouldn’t want to eat off the floor.)
