Call it Murphy’s law or simply a coincidence. There is something about bread and Argeta that we clearly need to talk about.
You have some perfectly spread Argeta pâté on your last slice of toast, but you get startled, move suddenly, and knock it to the floor. Does it really have to fall like this? There has to be an explanation for why bread almost always lands on the side of the slice that’s covered with a delicious spread. Or is it just a fact that the bare side of the bread is jealous of the other one, which is lucky enough to be covered with Argeta pâté?
It started with a parodic poem
Was there Argeta back in 1884? Sadly no, but there was poet James Payn, who wrote a poem that has been true since then:
I never had a slice of bread
Particularly large and wide,That did not fall upon the floor,And always on the buttered side!
“Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong … ”
… is a sentence similar to the one said by aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy in 1949 –yes, that’s how we get the name Murphy’s law. According to physicist Robert Matthews, most buttered toast (or Argeta in this case) doesn’t flip like a coin to get a 50/50 chance of winning. In his study he says that toast rotates to thebuttered side because of the height from which it falls. Because an average table is not high enough for a piece of toast to turn twice, Murphy’s law comes into play. If a table was over three meters tall, the toast would rotate a full 360 degrees and Murphy would favor the Argeta –you would still be able to enjoy it.
