Myles writes: My partner works at a bakery. The other night she mentioned that she ate a “floor cookie” at work. Apparently, this is common at the bakery. When I took this matter to a group chat, I was met with a litany of items everyone had eaten off the floor that day, including wet noodles. Am I a germophobe, or am I surrounded by heathens?
It has been years since I worked in food service, but I can confirm all kinds of dropped-food-eating shenanigans. Those were simpler times in the virusphere, but even then I ate an untouched chicken cutlet rescued from the trash — bad idea. It doesn’t take a global pandemic to know that “floor cookies” sounds like a euphemism for … other droppings. Until we get a functioning vaccine, the five-second rule should be amended to the zero-second rule (and negative one-million seconds for wet noodles — come on!).
