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…
Yeah, that’s a factor too. If it’s not all solid, it’s as good as smudge (and in the case of meatballs, the domain of my dog anyways), as opposed to something like a baby carrot, which is the food it happened with last time. Oddly the food pyramid has a second function here.