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Bug on the Plate
A man was eating at a restaurant. When his food came, his waitress told him that they had run out of their usual fancy dinner plates and had to serve him their only plain dish. The man did not object, but there was a bug on his food. His waitress took it away and said she would bring him a new plate with new food. When she came back the man knew she had only tossed off the bug. How?
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His waitress had told him she served him their only plain dish. When she brought his "new food", it was on the same dish.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Since they had run out of all the fancy plates, then the plain on is the only on they could use. It could have been washed and given back to him with new food
she's right
I read this somewhere else but it had a different answer, but I won't say it in case it is somewhere else on the site.
After this plate got used, what did everyone else get served on?
not really requiring much thought...why would they only have _one_ plain dish???
That was one of the most unlikely teasers I've ever read...O_o
That's all I can share @ this time.
They had more than one plain plate, and she put the new food on another plain plate. So what's the real solution?
i thought it was a good brain teaser once i did what the hint said i got it!!
whoa
I like it!
Ya, u know what, i read something like that in an english book in first grade.
if ALL the fancy dishes were being used already then the waitress had no choice but to use the plain dishes, therefore it being the reason why the the person realized that the fly was just thrown out is insubstantial.
Got to really read the the teasers to get the answer right, afterall they are here to tease and confuse us, I read and reread and was able to get the answer correct. Good teaser! I liked it , thanks
I thought he had already buttered his bread or something.
At first i thougt that, but then i fugured they had more plain plates than their fancy ones
There is another one only it is a bug in coffee.?
Too easy
Too easy
One just has to pay attention to the detail of the story. I had also read something similar to this one, at an earlier date. But, it is a great teaser.
I've read it before.
ez ez EZZZZZZZZZ and i mean SO easy
maybe she washed the plate really fast? and they cooked the same food really fast....its possible...sort of
Got it with the hint. But dish can also mean a meal, not just a plate or bowl or whatever.
Beelzebub is right, if they ran out of plates then the chances are the plain one would have been washed before another diner was done with his fancy plate. Sorry
Beans what are you... a 1st grader?
they could have taken the of and given him the plate back.
I got it !
But what other plate could she have possibly used? All the fancy ones were in use, and that was the only plain one. And she could have washed it. This riddle is fundamentally flawed.
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