Let’s talk about bread

[Ronni]

i call it the heel of the bread and i toast it and make avocado toast out of it, or slather it with marmalade.

You?

 

[Pinky]

Yup .. we call it the heel as well. It usually goes into the green bin!

 

[CallMeKate]

I don't really call it anything except "the end piece."

 

[Knight]

Don't eat much bread & the bread we do eat I bake. As for the ends I call them the end pieces. Sometimes toasted but most often those get cut into cubes, dried with a variety of herbs for herb flavored croutons.

 

[Jules]

Yup .. we call it the heel as well. It usually goes into the green bin!

Except the green bin is my husband. He considers it sacrilege to waste bread; part of his upbringing,

 

[chic]

I call it the heel also and I eat it.

 

[-Oy-]

We call it the crust and used to fight over who got it when we were children.

Can't beat a buttered crust for mopping up the gravy after a nice Sunday roast - Mmmmmm...

 

[oldaunt]

Heel, usually goes in the freezer to use later for stuffing, bread crumbs or bread pudding.

 

[dobielvr]

I just leave it there, while I eat the rest of the bread.
It's my last resort if wanting a piece.

And, I usually don't eat the one after it either. It doesn't always feel fresh.

 

[timoc]

Round here, we call it the 'crust'.

 

[hollydolly]

In Scotland when I was growing up it was called the Heel..not sure if it still is... but here in the South of England it's called the crust.

 

[hearlady]

Sometimes we say crust, sometimes heel. I leave it at the end of the bread to help keep the next piece fresh.
When both ends are left we eat them unless they're old, the they go in the compost.

 

[Lady]

yes we call it the Crust too , I save mine to make Bread and Butter Pudding ..

 

[SeniorBen]

My dog gets the ends, which is what I call it. I give him a quarter of an end each time I make a sandwich. I don't like giving him too much out of fear that he'll get a cavity.

 

[-Oy-]

*A degree of knowledge of the Lancashire dialect may help here...

Back in the 80s the famous Wigan Rugby League team, who were winning everything in sight, found themselves in a posh restaurant in London. At the end of the meal, with a plate full of gravy and bits of food, a certain team member called over the waiter and asked "Ast geet any crusts?" The bemused waiter asked for clarrification and was told "Tha noze - th'eend of t'bread!"

 

[Capt Lightning]

When I was young, it was always called it "the end" although I now know it as "the heel". The crust is the brown bit on top.

In the 19th century the "upper crust" became associated with the gentry, but there seem to be little reason for this.

 

[debodun]

I eat any bread except raisin.

I use end pieces for toast.

 

[DebraMae]

I call it the heel. It stays in the bag to keep the next piece fresh until the end of the bag. Then both heels go in the trash or out to the birds as crumbs.

 

[BC Flash]

I freeze the end pieces to use for "bunwiches" .

 

[CallMeKate]

When I was young, it was always called it "the end" although I now know it as "the heel". The crust is the brown bit on top.

Same here... the harder top/sides is the "crust"... like when kids won't eat it, they want "the crust" pulled off... all the edges.

 

[Tish]

I call it Crust

 

[Gaer]

"The crust".

 

[caroln]

I call it the end piece. It goes out to critters in the back yard.

 

[NorthernLight]

The crust. It stays in the bag to keep the next slice fresh. Eventually it gets eaten by a human. (The perimeter of a regular slice is also called the crust.)

When I lived in Oaxaca, they had large crusty rolls. They'd pull out and discard the insides, and make a sandwich with the outer part only. (But you weren't allowed to call it a sandwich! It was a "torta.")

Seemed backward to what I was used to, having known people who refused to eat the crust.

 

[Georgiagranny]

I eat any bread except raisin.

Whaaaat? @debodun! Heretic! No raisin bread? No? Raisin? Bread? OMG! I am soooo Is it the result of having lived a sheltered life? Some sort of mishap with raisins at an early age?

No raisin bread toast with peanut butter? No buttered raisin bread toast? No peanut butter and banana sandwiches on raisin bread?

A life unlived...