Why?

[~sillycow~]

Why do triangular sandwiches always taste better than rectangular sarnies? hmm.....

[noxlumos]

Along with other people's chips. My wife will lock herself in the bedroom to eat chips from the chippy because I say I don't want any and then hers taste so good I scoff em all.

[~sillycow~]

yeah thats true!! I asked my other half if he wanted chippy chips last week, he said no thank you, then proceeded to eat most of mine saying " I had to eat them as the salt and vinegar smells nicer on chippy chips and home made chips don't smell of anything!!" aah love him!

[potterfan3]

more surface are around the sides, the fillings can sweep out through them

(i don't actually know if they do it's just an intelligent guess)

[rojash]

As you put a sandwich in your mouth, all the little tastebuds run to the front of your tongue to get a suck at it. Naturally, the strongest tastedbuds get there first and line up, followed by a line of the next strongest, and so on. It happens that strength distribution amonst the tastebuds is pyramidal. So if you have (say) 1000 at strength 1, you will have about 800 at strength 2 and so on down to a single runty tastebud who will always stand at the back. This lining up of the tastebuds happens to fit a triangular sandwich.

[lafrancaise]

Wow rorash; where did you learn that?

I'd just say triangular sandwiches LOOK better and so seem to taste better

[mibn2cweus]

Presentation affects the way we evaluate our perceptions.

This must be taken into account when making an objective analysis of perceptual data.

[rojash]

lafrancaise, I made it up. You and mibn2cweus are right about presentation affecting perception. I like my coffee in a cup with a white interior. Sometimes my wife makes it in a dark blue cup, and simply because it looks more pale against the dark background, it seems to taste insipid.

[tomd]

It's because they take longer to cut, so you're anticipating them more.

[snook]

Rojash, I have black coffee and I have to have it in a dark glass cup. Don't know why. It's probably the only cup we have - loads of mugs, no cups. My little dark brown glass cup just seems 'right' in so many ways for my coffee. Mmmm... yeah, certainly tastes better in that. Can't abide it in a mug. If it arrives in a mug it gets slung down the sink.

Actually, now I think about it, I have filter coffee now and then (as opposed to freeze dried) and I like that in a tiny cream-coloured cup (on a saucer) like you might get in an Italian restaurant. What the 'ell is it about coffee that makes me feel that it deserves (almost demands) special treatment??

By the way, your explanation of why triangular sandwiches taste better was little short of magnificent. I applaud you, sir! Looking forward to visiting your upcoming website, the one that'll deal with all those tantalising questions that have heretofore eluded rational explanation.

[Mortartube]

For the same reason that bananas taste better if bitten from the side, as opposed to the more conventional end on. If you don't believe me, try it.

[tomd]

I lived in the Czech Rep for a very short while, and everyone there ate bananas from the 'wrong' end, without the stalk.

If you think of a comic banana skin, it's got the stalk in the middle, so must have been opened at the 'wrong' end.

[rojash]

Snook, here in Greece, it's almost impossible to get the right wool to knit a web site, so I have decided to crochet one instead. This will, of course, take a little longer.

[spinchimp]

Well named, aren't you?

[rccatnap]

It comes down to the fact that good food (and drink) should be a feast for the eye, as well as the palate.

[Dagman]

I want to eat a banana a triangular sarnie and drink coffee now just to find out!

[mrstrunchbul]

hahahahaha you strange people