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Buttered toast phenomenon
The buttered toast phenomenon is the tendency of buttered toast, when it falls, to land butter-side down in the majority of instances. This ruins the quality of the toast since dirt from the floor sticks to butter much easier than to plain toast. Whilst this was once considered to represent mere pessimism, a form of Murphy's law, scientific evidence for the phenomenon has been found.
==Origins==
The phenomenon is said to be an old proverb from "the north-country". Written accounts can be traced to the mid-19th century. The phenomenon is often attributed to a parodic poem of James Payn from 1884:
In the past, this has often been considered just a pessimistic belief. A study by the BBC's television series Q.E.D. found that when toast is thrown in the air, it lands butter-side down just one-half of the time (as would be predicted by chance).〔 However, several scientific studies have found that when toast is dropped from a table (as opposed to being thrown in the air), it does fall butter-side down at least 62% of the time. One such study won the Ig Nobel Prize in 1996.〔
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