COLUMBIA, S.C. - 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.
Thats 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. Thats not too far off, said Clemson University professor Paul L. Dawson.
Last year the food microbiologists 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 eaters 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 didnt think we would be able to detect it.
The professor said the students research didnt get into the risk behind such a bacteria transfer, but they got the idea.
I like to say its like kissing everybody at the party if youre double dipping, youre 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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