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IndicaPhoenix t1_je8b9eu wrote

Wine is a competing food. //grapes Gets trampled thereafter too hahahah

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poedraco t1_je8ddba wrote

... you, don't have a two year old do you?... thin again.. walls don't count as ground

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Squeeeegee t1_je8g2f2 wrote

I would argue that bread and it’s stupid little crumbs do more but that may be my personal struggle

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OCE_Mythical t1_je8gdg1 wrote

You easily lose to fruit due to it still being food when it falls off the tree but even so I'd imagine something small and ubiquitous like rice would win out over popcorn.

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UhhMaybeNot t1_je8q2he wrote

I think if you can count one kernel of popcorn as a food item then you can count one grain of rice, in which case absolutely no contest, rice is eaten every day by like half the world population and also intentionally thrown on the ground a lot at weddings.

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pzzia02 t1_je8tssi wrote

Peanuts? Potatos? Maybe those are different cause they grow underground

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VukKiller t1_je8xogm wrote

I'd assume breadcrumbs or rice falls to the ground the most since the sheer amount of people consuming those foods.

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JackKovack t1_je93e1u wrote

I should know, I worked at a movie theater. Want to hear my movie theater horror story? So a regional group of Girl Scouts come in for special screenings late at night. I thought nothing of it until the next morning. Apparently the janitors saw the mess and said fuck this we’re leaving. I come in at 10am or so and my manager is flipping out. I think it can’t be that bad, it was. Every theater was a disaster zone including the bathrooms and men’s. I was beside myself it was so bad. Four very large theaters with popcorn and candy everywhere, literally everywhere. It was like a bomb went off filled with popcorn and candy. You know that murder orgy scene revealed in the movie Event Horizon? Image that with popcorn and candy. My manager called people in early. The first showings were at 12pm. We had very little time to clean everything. I couldn’t believe Girl Scouts could be so destructive. I’ve cleaned theaters a lot and 2nd place worse doesn’t compare to what I saw and experienced. When we we’re finished I was so exhausted I didn’t want to work the rest of the day but I had to. Oh my god Girl Scouts why?

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philmull84 t1_je9he4j wrote

Live around a toddler for a few weeks, you'll change your mind!

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Captain_Excellence OP t1_je9hnhe wrote

Replying to JackKovack (#2,477,906)

> So a regional group of Girl Scouts come in for special screenings late at night

Lol, yeah this is what I had in mind happening around the world in every movie theatre daily. Thank you for your service popcorn warrior.

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President_Calhoun t1_je9igwr wrote

Replying to JackKovack (#2,477,906)

This makes me think of Simpsons anchorman Kent Brockman: "Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."

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Snoo-24880 t1_je9pwne wrote

What about salt? It’s a rock that’s on the ground or falls on the ground constantly before it’s harvested. Then again when you actual use it

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101_210 t1_je9tvfu wrote

Water wins by several order of magnitude. (Yes, it is considered food)

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ResettisReplicas t1_je9vsa8 wrote

If you work in the restaurant industry, and not an upscale one where people are discouraged feom bringing children, you’ll know the real answer is Cheerios.

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ResettisReplicas t1_je9vt4x wrote

If you work in the restaurant industry, and not an upscale one where people are discouraged from bringing children, you’ll know the real answer is Cheerios.

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ResettisReplicas t1_je9vtdc wrote

If you work in the restaurant industry, and not an upscale one where people are discouraged from bringing children, you’ll know the real answer is Cheerios.

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This_Site_Sux t1_jea0da8 wrote

I have been led to believe that meatballs often fall from tables as a result of someone sneezing

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rose636 t1_jea2sd1 wrote

In the UK (and I guess other places), there's a chocolate bar called a flake. No person, in the history of ever has managed to get keep than 43% of it in their mouth.

It. Goes. Everywhere.

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Gally01fr t1_jea917b wrote

Blueberries...all.the.time. and they roll and roll and roll...so annoying 🙄 😉

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Aetheldrake t1_jeabio9 wrote

Gonna go see the dnd movie, will let you know how badly this happens

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aVicariousTool t1_jeag15w wrote

I dunno maaan, my girlfriend is pretty clumsy and falls down a lot...

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Holiday-Pay193 t1_jeagzd5 wrote

Fruits, beans and potatoes.

They have fallen to the ground for millions of years.

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Rhododendronbuschast t1_jeai600 wrote

I dont know... Overall maybe... But I ate some uncoated maize puffs today and the static electricity from my moustache kept redirecting puffs I trew in my mouth to the sides. It was weird. And a mess.

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stansburrito t1_jeansu4 wrote

This person has never eaten a nature valley bar and it shows

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GrammarNazi63 t1_jeap444 wrote

I’m pretty sure apples have been falling for far longer than man has been popping the corn

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McHassy t1_jeap59x wrote

Fruits, nuts, vegetables, and pretty much any other foods that grow on a plant would beg to differ.

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Butt-Spelunker t1_jeattfc wrote

Don’t y’all haven those steakhouses where you throw 🥜s on the ground?

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shifty_coder t1_jeaw3a2 wrote

Evidence that we are a race of toddlers: social acceptance of shoveling handfuls of certain types of food into our faces, to the point where the handfuls are too large to fit in our mouths, and some of it falls on the floor for others to clean up.

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satanlovesmyshoes t1_jeawv79 wrote

Those shitty crumbly granola bars are a contender for the top spot.

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AlPal512 t1_jeaxdr0 wrote

I can’t toss a hand full into my mouth without dropping a few. I agree with this thought!

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ryan770 t1_jeaycuw wrote

OP has never eaten a Nature Valley crunchy granola bar

although I don't know if infinite amount of crumbs equates to a piece of food or whatever. But there is no escape.

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truemcgoo t1_jeazl4p wrote

If you wanted to get real semantic about things you could call a can of beer a “high carb meal replacement malted beverage”. In which case beer wins, hands down.

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Grantley34 t1_jeb0xmr wrote

No other food floats on water at some point in its lifetime than cranberries

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B_Cage t1_jeb7pvu wrote

You have never heard of pepernoten then. It's from the Dutch (and other European countries) childrens feast Sinterklaas. His helpers throw candy to the kids, mostly pepernoten (cookie-like candy).

I ate many kilos of those as a kid from the floor. Any floor.

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leonkrellmoon t1_jebew87 wrote

Boy do I feel called out. I'm eating done right now and have dropped some twice already.

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UhhMaybeNot t1_jec30rq wrote

Replying to StillNotaKorean (#2,492,417)

One kernel of corn and one grain of rice is how those things naturally occur, without being ground up into much smaller pieces, kind of a completely different category, but like this is entirely a silly hypothetical thought experiment so you can set whatever parameters for "single object of food" to whatever you want, you could consider a molecule of soup if you go far enough down the chain

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StillNotaKorean t1_jec9ato wrote

Replying to UhhMaybeNot (#2,504,158)

For the premise of the stupid discussion to work I figured any piece of cookable physically distinguishable food object could enter the draft. Meaning dust of flour might be ok, but molecule is not. Same goes for water droplet aka fine, but water molecule is not. Also, should liquids even count? Since you set the parameters to a whole piece of cookable food aka popcorn. Which makes a cooked grain of rice okay, but a dust of flour debatable because unlike puffed rice or popped corn no one ever said "I'll just have one" to a dust of cooked flour or a crumb of bread but I'm open to discuss it.

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ApparentlyAPigeon t1_jed8mei wrote

Cheerios are used in every vacuum commercial, are a common snack for toddlers, and are pretty easy to spill anyways

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