emm said:

Me either! I was just gonna ask about that. How do you kiss a piece of food up to God?

In any case, it depends on what the food is, where it's dropped and how long it's been on the floor. If it's like a piece of candy or a raw vegetable and it's dropped on my own floor or the floor of a friend I know to be generally clean and I pick it up right away after it's dropped and inspect it I usually call it good to go. If I find it laying there way later, or its on the concrete outside of First Ave, or it's a bite of tuna salad or something, then I throw it away.

bluesbaby said:

Yes, 3-second rule, for sure. Are you Australian?

However, I do like to save the candy I drop on the floor
in a special bag and hand it out to people I hate.

I offer them a sweet whilst in my mind I envision:

CarrieMpls said:

you pick it up off the floor very quickly and then you kiss it and hold it to the sky. and now your clear of germs! this doesn't apply to wet, mushy, or moist edibles that attract visable dirt that you wouldn't want your lips on anyway -unless you don't mind chewing grit

heybaby said:

YOu people are wayyyyy looking into and over analyzing my statement.. It was a thing me and my sister use to do..Didn't any of you people ever see Eddie Murphy's Delirious.???. (i think that was the live stand up that he did that in)!!!! It was one of his stand up shows from years ago... Kiss it up to god, like nowwwww its suppose to have like not fallen on the floor and be free of germs.. Ugh!! Whatever...
I am sorry none of you people ever heard about that before.. But to each his own.

BabyCakes said:

I know what you're saying!!!

God kissed it and the devil missed it!!!

it depends but usually, sure...my floors are clean. i just kiss it up to god and go about my business.

Ugh!! Whatever...

heybaby said:

YOu people are wayyyyy looking into and over analyzing my statement.. It was a thing me and my sister use to do..Didn't any of you people ever see Eddie Murphy's Delirious.???. (i think that was the live stand up that he did that in)!!!! It was one of his stand up shows from years ago... Kiss it up to god, like nowwwww its suppose to have like not fallen on the floor and be free of germs.. Ugh!! Whatever...
I am sorry none of you people ever heard about that before.. But to each his own.

There was a recent study done on the "five-minute rule" of dropping food on the floor. It concluded that it was pretty safe to eat anything off the floor within five minutes of dropping it, as floors are cleaner than we think they are, and generally any particles that attach themselves to the food are harmless. I guess it's just a matter of doing it in public or not.

BabyCakes said:

baby, i'm agreeing with you. i was born in 1974 on the southside of chicago. i knew about "kissing up to god" way before eddie murphy. when i was little it was something we did. i don't do that anymore unless it's off my clean floor and i'm starving. lighten up!

BabyCakes said:

I'm not way looking into anything. I just think it sounded silly is all.

As for Delirious, I think I saw it when I was maybe 9 or something, if at all. Don't really remember it.

No need for the eye rolling, that's not very nice.

heybaby said:

Sorry baby, didn't mean to respond to you.. it was the wrong person.. I am light.. lighter than a feather.. Just was getting tired of everyone saying.. what is that?? Kissing it up to god??? It was just silly is all..