05-05-2019, 01:18 PM
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Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
All the staff at the place where my daughter works in Mayfair, London were given a large Thornton’s Easter Egg with their name on the egg.My daughter doesn’t like chocolate very much, so she said, l could have it! Yeah!
This weekend, she came home and brought me the Easter egg. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t fit whole in her case so she broke it up into small pieces and put them in a supermarket carrier bag.
When she arrived home, she gave me the bag of broken chocolate egg. I took a piece to eat but it was warm and soft! I then emptied the bag of pieces into a large plastic bowl and squeezed it onto the top shelf of my fridge/freezer.
Later, fancying a piece of the chocolate. l went to the fridge/freezer, opened the door and shock, horror. The bowl of broken chocolate egg, toppled out, hit me on the head and fell to the floor! Pieces of chocolate were scattered everywhere all over the tiles.
Now, did l pick them up and put them back in the bowl to eat later, or did l sweep them up and chuck them?
What did l do? Or even better, what would you have done?
05-05-2019, 01:37 PM
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Re: Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
Originally Posted by Twink55
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I would look at it this way...... bacteria rarely congregate on cold things, they like the warm & it had been in the freezer
If it was me, I think i would have had a little nibble!
05-05-2019, 01:50 PM
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Re: Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
Originally Posted by Twink55
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I would look at it this way...... bacteria rarely congregate on cold things, they like the warm & it had been in the freezerIf it was me, I think i would have had a little nibble!
lt was in the fridge part. I said, fridge/freezer to indicate the height of the fridge which is over the freezer.
05-05-2019, 01:54 PM
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Re: Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Made sure the dog didn't get it.............
05-05-2019, 02:10 PM
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Re: Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
Personally, I'd chuck it .....
But .....
It's Now Safe to Eat Food That's Been Dropped on the Floor
https://www.glamour.com/story/five-second-rule
The study did find, though, that certain foods were likely to pick up more bacteria the longer they remained on the floor. That list includes things like cooked pasta, chips, donuts, sweets, and buttered toast. "It is less safe to leave damper, stickier foods, which pick up more after falling and more over time," Hilton said. "The five-second rule probably does still apply to them."
It also matters what type of flooring the food falls onto: Foods dropped on laminate or tile became more contaminated than those dropped on carpet. But across all types of flooring, the food dropped picked up fewer than .0004 percent of the average 10 million bacteria found on a family floor.
So here comes the good news, germophobes: It is generally safe to eat all food that has been dropped on a residential floor that is mopped or vacuumed once a week, no matter the timing.
05-05-2019, 02:17 PM
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Re: Did I Chuck It? Or, Did l Eat It?
Originally Posted by Artangel
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Twink, lt was in the fridge part. I said, fridge/freezer to indicate the height of the fridge which is over the freezer.
Can you ask Mags to save some for me?
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