Can we talk about how I always thought the 5 second rule was safe, until my cousin in Fresno got food poisoning from a cracker she dropped

Avery Flores · 2026-10-16T01:35:03.302245+00:00

I read on the CDC site that bacteria can transfer to food in under 1 second, so everything I thought I knew about the 5 second rule was wrong and now I want to know if anyone else has a family myth they believed for way too long.

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Can we talk about how I always thought the 5 second rule was safe, until my cousin in Fresno got food poisoning from a cracker she dropped | Before I Forget - Thought Shares