Why does a buttered piece of toast always fall facedown?

Question

Everytime you drop a buttered piece of toast it always seem to drop and land facedown....why?

Answer 1

Because Chuck Norris said so...

Answer 2

The height of a regular table just happens to be the ideal height for a regular sized toast to have "enough time" to rotate 180 degrees by the time it falls. This only happens if you push it slowly over the table's edge. This rotation is somewhat helped by what you loaded on top of the toast, like a thick layer of peanut butter & jam....
If you wipe the toast off the table fast enough, then the horizontal inertia doesn't allow the toast to rotate, and it lands sunny side up.

Answer 3

Law of physics, If cats always land on their feet what happens if you tie a piece of buttered toast to a cats back with the butter side up, and then drop the cat from a chair?

Answer 4

some scientist have experimented at length and it does seem that yes, it falls on the buttered side most of the time, at least for tables of average height. Most of the time but not always. And if I remember well, one of the conclusions was that, if legs of tables were 10 feet high (about 3 meters), pieces of toast would fall buttered side up most of the time.

Answer 5

I've dropped buttered toast before and it's landed sunny side up, but hey, maybe I'm lucky. My guess would be that if it slides off the counter/out of the hand then the heavier side is going to go face down. And the heavier side has the butter on it. Just my own little theory. :)

Answer 6

Same reason as Cats always land on their Feet .

Attach some buttered toast ( Butter Side Up ) to the top of a cat , Throw it up in the air and you have perpetual motion :)

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The height of the table is likely to be the key thing here.
Also we probably tend to remember the butter side down incidents giving an increased apparent frequency.

Answer 9

This is a myth. Half the time it will land butter up.

Actually, though, this was a law of nature that the ants asked god to create: if the butter-side is always down, they pleaded, we'll get some gourmet food for a change...And god said, let it be so...

Answer 10

Murphy's Law