why does toast always fall butter side down?

Question

and if you put the toast on the back of a cat and dropped the cat, which way would it fall then?

Answer 1

OH NOT AGAIN, P L E A S E....................

You buttered the wrong side........................

Answer 2

The theory that toast always falls buttered side down depends on the perception that the likelihood if it happening, its probabiltiy, always seems higher depending on a number of factors:

- Your hunger for toast;

- The fact that carpet lint on dropped toast always looks more visible, and thus nauseating, when stuck to the butter;

- the likelihood that it will embarrass the person dropping the toast;

- how much the carpet cost, and how badly the butter will ruin it.

All of these values are purely subjective, and depend on how much you really want the day to go well, or badly, depending on your personal expectations of the day.

If you want an answer as to why the toast does fall buttered side down, well ... there's no really good answer you can get.

Have croissants or bagels instead, maybe.

Answer 3

There are several factors which combine to cause toast to fall butter side down. Gravity, height from which dropped, size of the bread and inital rotation.

As the toast falls under gravity, it rotates. Unfortunately, the position from which most pieces of toast fall (your hand or a work surface) is usually the height at which it has rotated through 180 degrees.

If the height were doubled then most toast would fall butter side up.

Answer 4

Its to do with how many times it takes a piece of toast to revolve in the air before it hits the ground. Its usually 2 1/2. If it were 3 1/2 it wall fall butter down as well.

Answer 5

its called sods law and of course the butter side is heavy. if it was on the back of a cat, the cat will land right way up but when the toast falls it will still land butter side down 9 times out of 10.

Answer 6

It does not always fall butter side down, there is a 50% chance it will go butter side up. And if I put it on the back of a cat and dropped the cat I may get a visit from the RSPCA ;)

Answer 7

Because the buttered side is heavier.

And a cat always lands on its feet so the toast would stay which every way you put it on the cat.

Answer 8

there is one easy answer to this stupid question, that often appears on why does type questions...the average work surface, where you butter toast, is the same height, waist height. When carrying toast, its waist height, so's a dinning table, even a coffe table, is within a hight range, which is this.
The height that toast is almost always dropped from, allows for one half rotation of the item, which always starts butter side up. therefore, unless the way you drop it, is by flicking it, inducing spin, it simply turns one half rotation, while falling. Chuck it off the eifel tower, with wind, this may be more 50/50, but not dropping it from the same sort of hight, starting butter side up, every time.

Answer 9

The cat would lick the butter off the toast and still manage to land on its feet.

Answer 10

It only falls butter side down if it falls onto expensive white carpet. If it falls onto tiles or vinyl it lands butter side up. Sod's Law.

Answer 11

how will you keep the toast on the cat!