What kind of cookie?
(seriously)
Same answer. Ginger would snatch that cookie before I got a chance to react.
I think my kitchen floor is clean enough that it wouldn’t matter to me at all.
Aww, who am I kidding. I regularly drop stuff on my kitchen floor and then eat it. Hell, I drop things on the carpet, pick them up, examine them for cat hair, and then usually eat those, too, if I see no foreign substances on them.
Not soup, though. I let the cats lick that up.
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No I didn’t.
Eat it. . . without hesitation. . . 3 second rule.
It all depends on how hungry I am and how dirty the floor is. Oh…and if the cookie is sticky or relatively dry.
I’m not nearly as bothered by dirt as a lot of people are. I read somewhere that the average person eats a couple pounds of dirt in a lifetime. So, what’s a little more on an otherwise perfecty good cookie?
I think someone forgot to tell dogs this. My family has had 3 very long lived dogs (21, 15, 19) who all adored chocolate.
Oooops and the dog can have the cookie (biscuit) I don’t like them.
The effects of chocolate on dogs varies, and is, IIRC, a cumulative thing.
But here’s some Cecilification:
I remember also reading that while a few M&Ms probably won’t kill a dog, a few M&Ms every day probably will. But I might be wrong on that.
I’d eat the cookie. I’ve no doubt that my body could survive worse things than a little floor grime. (No, my floors are not really “grimy”, but you know what I’m talkin’ about).
Five second rule? You people are pansies! It’s ten seconds! Everyone kows that germs require at least 11 seconds to migrate from floor to foodstuffs, therefore, a ten second rule is in effect.
In case the above didn’t answer the OP, I’d pick the damn thing up, blow on it (cause any germs that somehow got on it in less than 10 seconds can be removed with air) and eat it.
Hell, I throw 'em on the floor and eat 'em on purpose just to show the world I’m a man.
What floor are we talking about here? My kitchen floor or the killing floor of the local slaughterhouse?
Point well taken. But then I usually don’t eat cookies in the restroom. YMMV. 
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?
I would eat it, unless it rolled under the counter where the dog hair collects. Then the dog gets it.
One chocolate chip cookie isn’t going to kill your dog if he happens to snatch it. Don’t let them have chocolate on a regular basis, especially bakers chocolate.
I had a dog once eat an entire package of hershey’s kisses. He unwrapped each one and left the foil all over the house. Yes, he lived.
Team up with young scientist Jillian Clarke, and prove whether the extra five seconds makes a difference…
It depends on what floor in my house I’m dropping it on. I’ve got cats, so certain floors (ones that are carpeted) tend to gather cat hair far more easily than others. If I dropped a cookie on one of our hardwood floors, I’d pick it right up and eat it. If it were on the carpet, I might still eat it, but I’d probably inspect it far more closely.
I’d eat it…definitely.
Hell, I remember as a kid that certain immunizations (the one for polio, if I remember correctly?) used to be given by putting a killed virus in a solution on a sugar cube. So if I am willing to munch a block of pure sugar that I know for sure has been coated in some sort of virulent swill, why would’t I eat a cookie off of the floor?
Who knows? It might even be good for you! Kinda like a free flu shot
Depends on when the last time I washed the floor was, and if puppy has piddled on it recently (when I get home he gets really excited and sometimes a bit of piddle leaks out).
Generally I would eat it though.