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Streetband released the novelty song Toast in 1978. The band attempted to use toast as an instrument, with the sound of toast being scraped used later in the track. Buttered toast is commonly featured in humour in the context of it tendency, when dropped, to land with the buttered side to the floor (the least desirable outcome). See, for example, the buttered cat paradox. The phenomenon is widely believed to be due to the combination of the size of the toast and the height of the typical dining table, which means that the toast will not rotate far enough to right itself before encountering the floor; however this is largely dependent upon the scenario (e.g. "flipping" overhanging toast from the table Am. J. Phys. 69 p.38, January 2001, or throwing toast into the air) .
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