For ritcs09

"Anyone else notice that the zip code for Long Lake, MN is incorrect. According to http://www.usps.com it's 55356-9741 not 00005-5356!"

If you look at the last five digits there, it's obvious someone didn't know what they were doing and only typed five in and and it didn't fill the whole field in...

For RapperMC

Why would the e in rule have been photoshopped from an s? You're saying that the original receipt said "We promote the ten secound ruls" and that the photoshopper took the time to fix "ruls" into "rule" and not fix the spelling of "secound" or fixed up the "MC.Donalds"

If this had been a fake, it would have been pushed around to sites long ago. This was published to flickr on January 23, 2006... Why would someone fake a receipt to a restaurant and wait a year to generate buzz about it? You'd have to have way too much time on your hands and what would be the point?

This is obviously someone working there having fun with the machine. Nothing more, nothing less. It was posted to flickr to show it to friends and a year later got blogged

Of course, then again, why am I bothering to defend the validity of this receipt... none of you know me, so I could just be trying to fake you all out. It must be a conspiracy, like that episode of South Park... this is why terrorists hate us.

As well, when I worked at a 'fine' restaurant, the cook was also the same way - it hit the floor? It's no good.

Hopefully this was a joke or what robertseaton said, greet you in 10 seconds.

BTW, this was a place where eating for two could cost near $100 bucks. >:(

Still gross, but not covered by most of the 'tests' I've read about.

On the other hand, even the technical definition of 'sanitary' is "free of harmful levels of micro-organisms and other contaminants" per the health department's sanitation management classes. (Clean, on the other hand is defined as: "free of visible soil, including but not limited to food particles and dirt"). Just because ecoli is present on something, doesn't mean there's enough of it to make it unsafe.

Consider this: the food you are served in a sit down restaurant is exposed to the air. Air which frequently contains airborne yeasts, molds and other microorganisms. The reason they can bring you food out on trays, exposed to the air is NOT because it is 'hot'. Food is rarely, if ever, served at the 140-180 degrees needed to kill off the nasties. It is allowed to be served because it's still sanitary, not very likely having been exposed to enough airborne organisms to be considered 'harmful levels".

From Snopes.com: "In September 2003, Jillian Clarke, a high school student at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, released her findings regarding the 'five second rule.' She performed her tests by dropping Gummi Bears and fudge-striped cookies onto ceramic tiles, some of which had been treated with E. coli, a form of bacteria commonly found in human feces and raw meat and very much a part of our ordinary environment. Cookies and candy have low levels of naturally occurring microflora and are dry, which is why we suspect she chose them for her test. (A wetter foodstuff, such as meat or cheese, might have pulled detritus from the testing floor more quickly than a dry item, making the test results less accurate.)

"Through microscopic examination of the dropped cookies and Gummi Bears, Miss Clarke found E. coli bacteria certainly adhered to the items before five seconds had passed, thereby disproving the 'five-second rule.' "

I wouldn't be surprised if some fast-food restaurants serve food that's touched the floor, but doing so definitely increases the likelihood that people will get sick from eating it.

Looking at Meghann's Wiki -- who knew there was a 5 second rule for taking someone's seat? Try that at the next company meeting