Why is the first bite of something always the best? The only exception to this rule is the taste of the last little crumb of something left after the last piece has been removed from the platter.
Why does food taste better if someone else serves it to you? Even if it’s a piece of meat that fell in the fire and got charred to a crisp, it still tastes good as long as somebody else fishes it out and plops it on your plate.
Why do the drive-through ATMs have braille on the keypad? Do that many blind people drive?
Why don’t white people leave when there’s a ghost in the house?
Sometimes around here I feel a little like when I reference the 80s to my high school students. It appears we have more and more people on the boards who have never read the original SD books.
I give you: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_010.html
In going with the other people’s food vs. your own thing: Whenever I try something new that tastes awesome at school or at somebody’s house, and then I buy the same exact thing for my house, it always turns out to be not NEARLY as good.
The salad bar is prepared by highly trained salad specialists at the top of their skills, their salad days. That’s why management puts them on celery.
Never. Blanks are recycled. The blank you draw has been drawn hundreds of times before. You couldn’t tell because…it’s blank.
That’s the sort of inside information you can learn on the Straight Dope Message Board. 