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…
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).
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.