Double Dipping Threat Real
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous “Seinfeld” episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
“That’s like putting your whole mouth right in the dip!” George Costanza was admonished on the show after he dipped a chip twice at a wake. That’s not too far off, said Clemson University professor Paul L. Dawson.
Last year the food microbiologist’s undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater’s mouth to the remaining dip sample.
“I was very surprised by the results,” Dawson said in a telephone interview Thursday. “I thought there would be very minimal transfer. I didn’t think we would be able to detect it.”
The professor said the students’ research didn’t get into the risk behind such a bacteria transfer, but they got the idea.
“I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party—if you’re double dipping, you’re putting some of your bacteria in that dip,” Dawson said.
The results of the research are scheduled to be published in the journal Food Safety within the next six months, he said.
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February 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pmDouble dipping is pretty gross. My advice to anyone who wants to dip twice: just break the damn chip in half
February 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pmDouble dip in your own bowl, It’s safer to pick up food dropped on the floor than to double dip.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pmI only double dip my fingers in the peanut butter jar …
Anybody else do this as a kid?
If you had siblings who always wanted a bite of your candy bar or cookie, whatever, you would lick the whole thing so they would get grossed out and walk away?
February 1st, 2008 at 5:19 pmBad career choice George, being unlikable. Maybe your next show will make it.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pmYep, also remember chewing on lead pencils. Matter of fact, I’m surprised in this nanny-minded society, that we still have lead in pencils.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pmJust think how better off we could be if we could get the politicians to stop their double dipping….
February 1st, 2008 at 6:46 pm“I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party…”
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
@Irish Gal:
They’re graphite (carbon), not lead. Well, the ones not made in China.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pm“I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party…”
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
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You dirty dog you … Heh!
February 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm