Buzz
"Is it larger than a breadbox?"
Steve Allen is often credited with introducing this question in a 1953 episode of What's My Line, though his initial wording was, "Is it considered a sizable product if you take a breadbox as the standard measure?"
The question "Is it larger than a breadbox?" became so frequently used on the show that it eventually turned into a standard query for guessing games like 20 Questions.
But what exactly is the size of a breadbox?
I could find a single breadbox and declare it the definitive example, but that wouldn't do justice to you or the variety of breadboxes out there. Since we're living through a STATISTICAL REVOLUTION, it only makes sense to apply some advanced mathematics (yes, including both addition and division) to crack this case.
I scoured the largest online marketplaces, gathering 20 different breadboxes for this study. In statistical lingo, 20 is known as "an impressively massive sample size—possibly even too large for NASA and supercomputers to handle."
I made sure to include only genuine breadboxes in my research. This means no "loaf keepers" or "International Adjustable Bread Keepers", and absolutely no "Bamboo Retro Style Bread Bins." I carefully measured the height, width, and depth of each breadbox (a grand total of fifty-nine separate measurements!) and processed them through a series of computer algorithms to calculate the average.
And now, for the moment we've all been waiting for: the statistics community's ultimate discovery...The Size Of A Breadbox:
8.3375" (Height) x 16.4325" (Width) x 9.28375" (Depth)
