# You have just dropped a cookie on the floor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553 "2004-10-22T04:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/41 "2004-10-22T17:07:51Z")
If it falls on the floor, it’s going in the trash. Heck, it’s getting thrown out if it touches the counter top. My house is very clean, but I’m weird about my food. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/42 "2004-10-22T17:42:55Z")
> [@Omega Glory](#): > > If it falls on the floor, it’s going in the trash. Heck, it’s getting thrown out if it touches the counter top. My house is very clean, but I’m weird about my food. Me too. Probably because of my immense fear of vomiting, I have some major food paranoias, and if food went on the floor, it is no longer food fit for me. I also can’t eat mayonnaise-based foods that have been exposed to room temperature for more than 10 minutes. If it looks like it’s even THINKING about turning clear, it’s not getting eaten. My brother on the hand, will eat anything. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/43 "2004-10-22T18:23:20Z")
Me, I’d fight the germs for the cookie. When it comes to sweets, I don’t mess around. Robin ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/44 "2004-10-22T18:38:28Z")
My floor’s clean, it’s a goner, especially if it’s chocolate chip. Unless it somehow rolls between the stove and the counter. If I couldn’t reach it, I’ll get it next month when I pull the stove out and clean back there. It’d definitely be in the trash then. On the carpet or rugs…I’d catch it on the first bounce. 😃 My question is: What do you do if you find a perfectly good cookie in between the seat of your chair or sofa? mm-hmm That’s a little tougher ain’t? Do you try to decide if you dropped it last night and eat it anyway or do you taste it to see how stale it is? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/45 "2004-10-22T18:39:54Z")
No I didn’t!! _giggle_ :eek: :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/46 "2004-10-22T18:48:31Z")
My first couple of weeks of law school, I shocked my new friends and future colleages by eating a cookie out of the trash. It was in a ziplock bag, but I guess that other people don’t consider this something done in polite company. It was fantastic, too. Homemade. I’d do it againg in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/47 "2004-10-22T20:12:32Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > What kind of cookie? > > (seriously) Let’s say honey coated oatmeal with a chocolate coated bottom. > [@Harimad-sol](#): > > 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. What? You can’t sprinkle the crumbles on ice cream? That would make it a tad more acctable methinks. > [@slortar](#): > > Hell, I throw 'em on the floor and eat 'em on purpose _just to show the world I’m a man._ > [@audiobottle](#): > > That’s nothing. In my day, I used to eat cookies only made from ingredients swept, mopped, squeegeed, what have you, off of the floor, and only from factories with single digit “No accidents or injuries in \_\_\_\_ days” signs. > > But seriously, I’ve eaten cookies I’ve found on the floor. Not necessarily in my own house, or any house for that matter. What? Admirable 🙂 . Now let’s take it up a notch. Let’s say a person of the opposite sex who you fancy is talking to you in the kitchen. The cookie falls, five seconds pass, your staring at the cookie, and she/he’s staring at you to study your reaction. What do you do, hotshot? I’d pick it up regardless, offer it to the fine lady, and then gobble it. Hey, if she’s really the woman for me, they’ll be much more dirty things happening in the house other than dining on floor ridden cookies 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/48 "2004-10-22T20:19:49Z")
Whoah whoah whoah… let me get this straight. There is a fine looking specimen of the female persusasion watching me drop a cookie on the floor \*\*\* and she’s not going after it!!!\*\*\* Clearly she’s not the right one for me. Although I definitely admire your chivalrous behavior in offering it to her first. By the way, that honey oatmeal chocolate cookie sounds delicious. I’ve got this intense craving for cookies now. I’m sure I can find enough crumbs to mash into a respectable cookie under my car seat during my drive home from work. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/49 "2004-10-22T20:22:16Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > Now let’s take it up a notch. Let’s say a person of the opposite sex who you fancy is talking to you in the kitchen. The cookie falls, five seconds pass, your staring at the cookie, and she/he’s staring at you to study your reaction. > > What do you do, hotshot? > > I’d pick it up regardless, offer it to the fine lady, and then gobble it. Hey, if she’s really the woman for me, they’ll be much more dirty things happening in the house other than dining on floor ridden cookies 😃 . Ditto. If it’s going to go anywhere at all it’s better to get out the open that I’m one floor-cookie eating sonofagun from the get go. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/50 "2004-10-22T21:42:09Z")
Of course I’d eat it. Maybe if my immune system has something real to fight, it will stop churning out histamines for no reason, and I can stop taking the Zyrtec. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/51 "2004-10-22T21:52:31Z")
I gotta agree with **audiobottle** if she’s not willing to eat my cookies too. Then she’s at the wrong house. Eatin folks cookies should be a mutual thing ya know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/52 "2004-10-22T21:59:23Z")
> [@smartini](#): > > Point well taken. But then I usually don’t eat cookies in the restroom. YMMV. 😉 > > 😃 Well where else can you eat them without having to share? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/53 "2004-10-22T22:38:07Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > Now let’s take it up a notch. Let’s say a person of the opposite sex who you fancy is talking to you in the kitchen. The cookie falls, five seconds pass, your staring at the cookie, and she/he’s staring at you to study your reaction. > > What do you do, hotshot? > > I’d pick it up regardless, offer it to the fine lady, and then gobble it. Hey, if she’s really the woman for me, they’ll be much more dirty things happening in the house other than dining on floor ridden cookies 😃 . If it’s anyone who I’d wind up dating, I’d probably have to wrestle her for it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/54 "2004-10-23T01:20:22Z")
I am not going to collect the cookie bits. My floors, alas, are not that clean. Inspired by this thread, I had cookies today. But not off the floor. I was at work. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/55 "2004-10-23T01:50:33Z")
Eat it. I’m a 43 year old batchler (man, I can’t spell at all tonight, dunno how close that is…) you don’t even wanna know the things I eat that don’t kill me (BTW, you would be amazed how long you can leave most stuff out without it spoiling.) ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/56 "2004-10-23T02:12:50Z")
Hell… I dropped a grilled cheese sammich on the floor. And to the horror of my wife and daughter…I ate it. 5 second rule. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/57 "2004-10-23T02:14:14Z")
That’s right. If she’s not willing to eat my cookies and I can’t eat hers, what kind of terrible, terrible relationship is that? Cookie eaters deserve each other. I don’t deserve any less. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/58 "2004-10-23T03:46:31Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Eat it. I’m a 43 year old batchler (man, I can’t spell at all tonight, dunno how close that is…) you don’t even wanna know the things I eat that don’t kill me (BTW, you would be amazed how long you can leave most stuff out without it spoiling.) Just FYI, that’s bachelor, but I’m not going to beat you over it! 😉 I agree with you. I’ve eaten stuff I probably wouldn’t feed my child. Today, I ate two pieces of leftover pizza (DiGiorno Spicy Chicken) which had been sitting out on top of the stove uncovered overnight. I was too lazy to fix something and figured if I got sick, I’d know better next time. I didn’t get sick. It was yummy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/59 "2004-10-23T10:29:29Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > Hell… > > I dropped a grilled cheese sammich on the floor. And to the horror of my wife and daughter…I ate it. > 5 second rule. As opposed to doing **WHAT** else with it? A grilled cheese sammich…deserves a 5 minute rule at least. Dammich that sounds good…if I only had some bread. Preferably a split top wheat. I like plenty of butter and to sprinkle some garlic salt on it when it’s grilling in the skillet or griddle. Some dill pickles on the side is good too. Maybe a few Lays p.chips …followed up with a couple of cookies right off the floor. 😉 all washed down with a big glass of ice cold milk. good w/ a side of chicken noodle soup too. (homemade of course) I made this very thing many many a late night for my wife when she’d be hungry for “something” or didn’t feel well. 🙂 You know what? When you do all the cooking for a lot of people everyday. You are going to drop stuff occasionally. As the cook you are obligated to be _the one_ that gets it. You get used to the idea. We couldn’t afford to be throwing food away. You also get real quick…I’ve actually caught dropped glasses and jars with the top of my foot. BTW **Cinnamon Girl** - _batchler_; one who cooks by conglomeration, (ie: just throw it all in a pot and heat it up) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553/60 "2004-10-23T12:56:33Z")
> [@Cinnamon Girl](#): > > Just FYI, that’s bachelor, but I’m not going to beat you over it! 😉 > > \ Yeah, I knew when I typed it, it wasn’t right. But no matter how many times I re-typed it, it just didn’t look right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-just-dropped-a-cookie-on-the-floor/270553.md?page=4)