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When did we become afraid of eating off the floor? (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 days ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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Maybe this is a cultural thing, but the idea of a solid food hitting the floor and it suddenly being off-limits is alien to me. I was taking a pill for pain this morning. I dropped it on the floor and picked it up and swallowed it with water anyways, and a classmate I was with had this reaction like I had just eaten a worm. Does it supposedly cause illness or bad luck, because I've never gotten any in all my years...

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[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People have vastly varying thresholds for what is acceptable here.

Also, this is one of those issues where it is far easier to make a case for "hygiene and cleanliness" and far harder to accept the opposite. So it acts kinda like a ratchet mechanism (easy to turn one way, difficult to bring it back the other way).

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I do both kind of. I do always think of things in terms of "how clean is this" but think of the relativeness of it enough where I think of it as being able to pass. If I was in a lab, that might be one thing, but my setting is on the mundane side.