The Bacon Dilema

jendraka · October 2013

You have just 3 slices of bacon left in the house. You go to make a nice BLT sandwich. Just as you go to transfer your bacon to your bread you horrifyingly drop one slice on the floor. You snatch it up before it is there for even a second or two. Now, do you:

a) Throw it away, it was on floor, and go ahead and make your BLT with only 2 slices of bacon. As sad as it may be.

Or

b) Wash off that bad boy in scalding hot water and use it anyway because...it's frickin bacon man are you kidding?

LoudmouthLee · October 2013

It's fried to hell anyway.

Let's eat.

la8ydi · October 2013

Eat that bad boy!!!! Otherwise it would be a crime!!!!

SmartAlec03211988 · October 2013

Great, 10:20 at night and now I'm CRAVING a BLT... I must go find bacon.

ronrstaats · October 2013

The bigger crime is that there is only 3 pieces of bacon in the house...

hopperem · October 2013

Six second rule? If it hasn't been on the floor for over six seconds - eat it!

_TastySnoBalls_ · October 2013

I don't even eat bacon and I'd use that shiz... Probably wouldn't even rinse it off... I'm dirty like that

TigerBite · October 2013

Give it to the dog ... But I'm kind of OCD like that ...

neandermagnon · October 2013

unless your kitchen floor is really dirty, then it's not going to be possible for enough harmful bacteria to get on it to make you ill, if you eat it right away. If you drop it on the floor and leave it at room temperature for a couple of hours, then it might make you ill (I said might, kind of russian roulette with bacteria), but the same is true if you sneeze on it then leave it at room temperature for a long time. If you clean the floor daily, and no-one's walked on the floor with dog poo or similar on their shoes, and no-one's pood or vomited on it (i.e. since the last time you cleaned it in a decent floor cleaner) or dropped raw meat on it, or died of bubonic plague on it or anything else that might have contaminated your kitchen floor, then you'll be fine. Also, if you drop it on the ground outdoors, the same, so long as there's no poo where you dropped it. Even herbivore poo probably won't make you ill. It's carnivore and omnivore poo you have to be careful of.

That said, it's probably best to err on the side of caution seeing as gastroenteritis isn't much fun. But hot bacon on a clean floor for a second or two is highly unlikely to make anyone ill. (I wouldn't accept that from a restaurant though, because if they're lax about anything, they're probably lax about anything else as well, but at home in your kitchen when you know your hygiene is good it's a different matter)

MysteriousMerlin · October 2013

It would be caught in mid-fall by the trio of moochers hovering nearby $:\$

jendraka · October 2013

I don't even eat bacon and I'd use that shiz... Probably wouldn't even rinse it off... I'm dirty like that

This was prompted by what just happened to my lunch. Believe me, in the case of it falling on a kitchen rug you'd want to rinse it, unless you enjoy the taste of fuzzies.

In that case, chow down.

FUELERDUDE · October 2013

I keep my house clean, that bad boy is being rinsed off and then going down the gullet!

mrsduke2924 · October 2013

3 second rule in our house!
rinse, dry, fry - then mmmmmmmm

xsmilexforxmex · October 2013

I don't even eat bacon and I'd use that shiz... Probably wouldn't even rinse it off... I'm dirty like that

This was prompted by what just happened to my lunch. Believe me, in the case of it falling on a kitchen rug you'd want to rinse it, unless you enjoy the taste of fuzzies. In that case, chow down.

Meh- dust it/blow it off... I keep my house clean enough.. Might just have to pick a few pieces of cat hair off. I dropped my hamburger patty the other night... Was not waiting while another cooked.