Will toast always land butter side down?!

benep · « **on:** 04/12/2006 21:25:38 »

is it true that butterd toast will land more often butter side down than on the plain side ? [?]

neilep · « **Reply #1 on:** 04/12/2006 21:34:24 »

What a great question son !!

i suspect that perhaps that , although the butter is light, it still must have a pulling effect on the aerodynamics of the toast in flight !...still...let's hope a passing ' buttered toast ' expert steps in with the right answer.

Hugs the Son

Carolyn · « **Reply #2 on:** 05/12/2006 01:29:05 »

Excellent question, Ben. I thought toast ALWAYS landed on the buttered side. At least it has for me. [

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Karen W. · « **Reply #3 on:** 05/12/2006 04:08:02 »

I never ever thought about that, but i believe most of the times I recall, I had to clean up the butter mess from it falling face down as you said young man! Very interesting!

moonfire · « **Reply #4 on:** 05/12/2006 04:55:18 »

Butter is embarrassed from falling so it does not want to show it's face...this is the most illogical answer you can possibly get Ben...LOL

Karen W. · « **Reply #5 on:** 05/12/2006 05:08:05 »

MAY BE BUT IT IS GREAT!LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!

moonfire · « **Reply #6 on:** 05/12/2006 05:47:07 »

;-) Hopefully the lad will get it...hehe Or maybe the butter is hiding from the "jam" he has himself in?

Karen W. · « **Reply #7 on:** 05/12/2006 05:53:03 »

LOL LOL LOL Your so cute!! Love you Loretta!

moonfire · « **Reply #8 on:** 05/12/2006 05:55:50 »

"cute" I am a big gal...how can that be cute? LOL Love ya too...but that is pretty mushy isn't it Glenda?

Karen W. · « **Reply #9 on:** 05/12/2006 06:03:47 »

LOretta Gibson You are a beautiful women that exubes Cute!!! Now we better stick to the butter topic for Ben!!

moonfire · « **Reply #10 on:** 05/12/2006 06:10:15 »

Now why you got to call me by my almost full name here Glenda...? Absolutely nothing like a little buttering up for sweet lil Ben...Afterall, King of the Forum's son should follow in his father's footsteps...let's see...Neilsy is at so many 1000's of posts...imagine if Ben stays at it from this age on how many posts he will achieve at his dad's age now? Hmmm, sounds like he might have the world's record....we could talk about different types of butter, salted or unsalted, I can't believe it's not butter,(brings up Fabio, if we do this one)Vegetable, and the list could go on and on all the way to goat butter...

Whatcha think?

Karen W. · « **Reply #11 on:** 05/12/2006 06:36:18 »

Fabio butter yummmm he was pretty cute, whatever happened to him?

moonfire · « **Reply #12 on:** 05/12/2006 06:39:36 »

geez, I dunno...he was on some reality show for romance fantasy or something...maybe he retired please say he did???

Karen W. · « **Reply #13 on:** 05/12/2006 06:59:32 »

I havent seen him for years, I only seen him a couple times he was cute!

moonfire · « **Reply #14 on:** 05/12/2006 07:00:32 »

Well, he has been making a few commercials...check it out on google...put fabio in...maybe he is finally making pretty babies...?

Karen W. · « **Reply #15 on:** 05/12/2006 07:35:51 »

Did he make any other kind? All babies are pretty!

moonfire · « **Reply #16 on:** 05/12/2006 09:05:09 »

LOL Not really...some babies are really ugly...

daveshorts · « **Reply #17 on:** 05/12/2006 10:49:32 »

If you push a slice of toast off the side of a table it will start to rotate, if it falls off something the height of a table, the speeds and heights work out that it will probably rotate half way in that distance - landing top down.
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So it isn't bad luck, just a consequence of the height of tables compared to how fast you normally knock bread slices off tables, - if you used a much higher table or pushed the bread off very slowly, it would rotate further before it hits the ground.

moonfire · « **Reply #18 on:** 05/12/2006 13:19:37 »

I have never looked at toast like this before Dave...I am sure Ben will benefit from this information...

lightarrow · « **Reply #19 on:** 05/12/2006 15:47:58 »

Dave has given the correct answer. I have read it in a scientifical magazine, probably Scientific American. Very nice drawing, Dave!

Will toast always land butter side down?!

benep (OP)