My mother always pressured me into eating my crusts, because as she said, its the best part of the bread in terms of healthy stuff. Im now a bit older, and I still hate my crusts.
Are they as nutrionious as my mommy always proclaimed?
First you have to tell us how old you are. We wouldn’t want to spoil anything your momma told you.
Your mom is a liar.
I have always been under the assumption that the crust has the most dietary fiber, which is good for you. I wonder, though if this assumption makes sense. Isn’t the crust just the part that gets hottest during the baking process? That wouldn’t have anything to do with the relative fiber content, would it? hmmmm.
My mom used to tell me they’d give me curly hair. I didn’t want curly hair, and I didn’t (and don’t) like crusts. So there.
She lied about other things, too. Someday we’ll talk about the carrots.
Did your mom postulate a mechanism by which the nutrition in the bread migrated to the crust during cooking, even though the dough was thoroughly blended beforehand?
Carrots are good for your eyes, if that was what your mom was talking about.
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/41/1671_50493.htm
not the carrots too :eek:
If anything, the crusts might be ever so slightly not good for you - the products of pyrolysis(SP?) (the toasty, crunchy, brown bits) of many foodstuffs can be carcinogenic.
But think back a few hundred years or so to a time when food was not so abundantly available as it is today, and crusts would be ‘good for you’ in the sense that wasting perfectly edible food could be bad for you.
A bit harsh, she may just be repeating what her mother told her. It seems to be a stock ‘mother phrase’.
Am I right in thinking it’s only a lie if you say something when you know otherwise? If you believe it yourself then it isn’t a lie is it? It’s just misinformation
Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
It never occured to me not to eat bread’s crust. Seems weird.
That’s because French bread is the best on earth.
I seem to recall that back when I was a kid, the crusts of bread actually tasted different - slightly sour/burned - thus kiddies required extra persuasion to eat them. Doesn’t seem that way today.
The crust is the best part (in terms of taste and texture), in my opinion, but then I’m one of those people who likes the end slice of a roast beef joint, prefers the rind on cheese to the cheese itself, etc.
My mother always used to tell me that anything I didn’t eat was the best part – the crust was the best part of the bread, the skin was the best part of the apple, the string beans were the best part of the dinner.
Finally, when I was in college, I read the Penguin book Two Lives of Charlemagne with accounts by Einhardt and Notker the Stammerer. In one of these I found an account of an incident in Charlemagne’s life, which I copied out in full and legible calligraphy, framed, and gave to her.
It tells the story of how Charlemagne went to a monastery and was given cheese. Charlemagne peeled the rim off the cheese and started to eat. The Abbott came over and said: “My Lord, what are you doing? You are throwing away the best part!”
So Charlemagne made him eat it. I’ll bet his mother always told him that, too.
Your mother’s belief probably is just an application of the idea that the majority (or at least the hell of a lot of) of nutrients are in the skin/rinds of various fruits.
I don’t think this has been known to be the case long enough to be the origin of the ‘eat your crusts’ folklore.
I have so been loving that retarded looking Iron Kids crustless bread! I’m a woman in my mid-20s, and this bread is fortified with extra calcium, so that’s good enough for me! 
For fiber, I eat the skins of my potatoes.
On the contrary, that link shows that it is so, except for the slight possiblity of unblemished, unsprouted potatos. Even if the skins do not contain additional nutrients other than fiber, most of the vitamin C is contained just under the skins of fruits. So if you peel the skin, you will also peel away much of the C, don’t you C? That is especially true for apples since it’s difficult to just peel away the appleskin. BTW, I also eat the core. Sure it contains a little cyanide, but not enough to hurt, and the nutrients therein outweigh that little poison. It’s similar to potato skin: just a little alkaloid, but not enough to hurt unless you eat a lot of sprouted or blemished ones.