To not eat food off the office floor?

[Lilyreads]

Today we had our lunch in a meeting room in the office, there were 6 of us and I dropped some chocolate on the floor. I said “oh noo” and all of them said it’s fine just eat it. I said I’m not eating food off the floor! But they were all in agreement that it’s fine because it’s not sticky food and it’s not the ground outside. They said if it was them they would just eat it.

I said but everyone has been walking in here with their shoes, which have been outside. But they were all basically laughing at me for not eating it. It was lighthearted and I’m not offended or anything but I was just wondering, how many people would eat it? I thought more people would think like me and not want to eat something that’s been dropped on the office carpet where multiple people have been walking. But I was the only one with this opinion and now I feel baffled 😂

So.. would you eat it or not?

Me too! It was chocolate after all! Not a brussel sprout 😂

I'd eat it.

I'd have checked nothing was stuck to it and ate it tbh.

It baffles that you are fixated on germs when OP doesn’t use the word germ once.

I'd probably eat it tbh. 5 second rule and all that. :)

A bit of dirt is good for your immune system.

Why else wouldnt she eat it then? Just curious what other reason would be 🤔

Never mind all that, you've missed out the most important piece of information.

What kind of chocolate was involved? 🧐

My Gran used to say ' you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die'

I'm fairly lax about stuff like this. I'd eat it if it hadn't landed in visible dirt.

I'm also very very rarely ill.

It was a piece of galaxy 😆

I'd pretend to be horrified about this on the internet while secretly knowing fine well that if it was a bit of galaxy id dust it off and stuff it in my mouth.

Floor at home - 5 second rule applies 😋
Floor anywhere else - it’s a no from me 🤢

yes I agree, at home I would’ve eaten it. It was the fact it was in the office where people have been walking, brushing their hair so there’s bits of hair and shit on the floor. I don’t know what else has been on there or when it was last cleaned. If a few people said they’d eat it I wouldn’t have thought anything of it. But EVERYONE in the room said I was being unreasonable so I was baffled 😂

I wouldnt if it had bits, hairs etc but otherwise I probably would.

I'd eat it if it happened at home but not anywhere else

Oh god no. I recently knocked some ground mince on my dirty kitchen floor and there is no way I would eat it.

I wouldn’t eat food off heavily trodden on carpet with dirt and hair on it.

Chocolate - yes
A stray bit of lettuce or pepper - no

Why did EVERYONE think they had the right to judge what you put in your mouth?! Do they tell you you 'should' like/dislike certain foods, too?

Another 5 second ruler here. The office has a cleaner, so the floor is probably cleaner than my own!

5 second rule here too..

Why would there be bits and hair on it? You'd brush those off surely, inspect it, then consume or discard as appropriate.

not pick it up, leave clods of hair and crap on there and stuff it in your mouth anyway...

It also depends what it is, something sticky or wet that picks up bits and hair and can't be rinsed or brushed off, no, that goes in the bin. Shiny dry hard bit of chocolate that can be brushed off... fine!

Meh, I'd eat it. You are absolutely not going to become ill from eating a piece of chocolate that spent two seconds on an office carpet.

However, totally up to you if you don't want to eat it.

As someone who licks food off my toddler, I’d eat it.

Urgh no way!
I would if I did it at home - depending on what was dropped and where but certainly nowhere else.

I'd pick it up, blow any fluff off it and eat it.

No such thing as 5 second rule, it's dirty to eat something that has been on the floor. Your colleagues were being ridiculous and unkind, all piling in on you.

Blimey, some people on here 🤯

I’d only eat food that had been on the floor if I was literally starving and I mean starving not just a bit hungry. And very few people in the uk are actually starving as in not eaten for days