Why, oh why?

[Shawnee123]

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?