Why, oh why?
 

This thread is a place to ask questions that probably no one else on earth cares about and that there might not even be an answer for. You might also call it the "Andy Rooney/Have You Ever Noticed" thread, or the "Nice Attempt at Comedy There, Kenny Bania" thread.

This is also a thread to put your smartass answers to the questions if you don't know the answer. The smartassier the better. Of course, if you have the real answer feel free to share that, as well.

I started this thread because I seem to have had a bout of curiosity about irrelevant or unimportant things.

I'll start:

A sleeve of sliced bagels: why are two sides still connected? You don't find the bread slices still clinging to each other when you buy a loaf of bread. Are there uses for bagels that require the halves be inseparable by anything other than the finest of cutlery? Are we giving the bagels themselves some sort of in-package security that they will not be torn asunder from their better halves? Do they think connected bagel halves, and the need to "fix" them, give us the feeling that we, all by ourselves, are responsible in some way for the actual making of the bagel?

Really, why?

Why are the bags of coffee so hard to open ?

I have enough trouble with unwrapping a cube of butter.
Opening a new bag of coffee is just one more way to screw up my breakfast.

I don't know about other people's thoughts.

Your bagel is probably sliced immediately after cooking. It is hot, thus enabling the chemical reaction to go on and permiting the two halves of bagel to reunite.

They've figured out how to let bread cool before they package it. I'm not talking bakery bagels, I'm talking about processed mass-market buy'em 5 to a bag bagels. :D

lamp: coffee packaging is designed to jump start your brain a bit: same effect the coffee later has, just in a smaller version. This way, your brain doesn't blow up from going from 0 to 60 too quickly.

Cooling takes time... and time is money... at least in industry.

Why, oh why?

What is the haunting refrain of the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, for $500, please?

Nice theory, but you are not familiar with the bagels in question. They are not cut all the way through. They are cut from both sides with a section in the middle that is left uncut to hold the two halves together, and you have to tear that little strip to get the two sides apart.

I think it's because people think of a bagel as a unit and they don't want to purchase a bag of bagel halves. There were probably market studies done years ago when the practice started and this was the preferred option.

Why oh Why oh Why-O
Am I still in Ohio???

What she said.

glatt: you, sir, are a genius. I bet you're absolutely correct.

@ foot: I don't know...possession?

Where oh where is the stupid drawer? I finally found the damn pliers but I can't find the room the stuck drawer was in. They didn't freaking move it. And where's the white key?

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

(I like to play escape games on my lunch hour.)

This is the Why oh why thread, not the Where oh where thread.

What? Oh, what?

I'm not familiar with the packaging of American bags of coffee, but if they are anything like Australian bags of coffee, then why not just use a pair of scissors?

We have reverse gravity here--all the coffee would fly out.