You are opening a candy bar, the wrapper is being a little stubborn so you pull a little harder when all of a sudden it gives way sending your snack to the floor. So the question is, do you still eat it? To me the answer is conditional, depending on where I dropped it. If it was in a public restroom, it is dead to me! In my cubical at work, eh, it is still gonna be eaten. Others may not be so clear thou, I dropped a pot of beans into the sink, they were not cooked yet, I was rinsing them before cooking. Of course, I scooped all the ones that fell into the sink but half of them went down into the disposal. What to do? I can reach in and dig them out, I can rinse them all off and put them back into the pot? When it comes to snacks and my floor at home as long as I beat the dog to chip, it is mine. The garbage disposal is another story tho. I think that the dropped item also has some part to play in whether I will eat it. Chips, candy bars, solid items seem to me to be more recoverable. Buttered bread, butter side hits the floor, cracker with peanut butter or jelly, might depend on how lazy I am feeling and whether it was the carpet or the kitchen floor. I mean as long as most of it sticks to the bread I should be ok, and the dog will mop up anything that stays and will be grateful for the “happy accident”.