It's a rumour that has circulated in school canteens around the world for years. The so-called '5-second rule' is the idea that it's safe to eat food dropped on the floor if picked up within five ...
It is perhaps the greatest agony: Watching food you paid good money for — or worse, painstakingly cooked — tumble to the floor. Children may be traumatized by their ice cream slipping off the cone to ...