The crust is toast. Is toast healthier for you than untoasted bread? No. Mothers suck.
Just to clear things up for Clairobscur and others who come from countries with real food, this whole crust problems starts with the fact that children in America are not given real bread to eat, but rather are fed on processed “bread food” like Wonderbread. Slap together two slices of Wonderbread, Oscar Meyer bologna, Kraft American cheese food, French’s (mustard-free) yellow mustard, and Miracle Whip salad dressing and you’ve got yourself your typical American kid’s meal (when I was growing up in the 1970s, anyway).
The problem with this sandwich is that the “crust” of the Wonderbread is dry and tasteless. It’s really awful. It’s not really a crust at all, just sort of a thin, brown cardboard covering. So a lot of kids wanted to cut off the crust. Most mothers, worried as much about household economy as packing as much nutrition into their kids as possible wouldn’t want to throw away the crust – perfectly good calories, if not so tasty.
I have to disagree. I agree with the part about what a typical American kid’s sandwich is like, but not about it being the reason they won’t eat crust. At my house, we don’t eat Wonderbread. In fact, we don’t eat white bread at all. We eat whole wheat, pumpernickel, rye, etc, and it’s usually decent bread. However, my kids still don’t usually eat the crust. They’ll eat it sometimes, but not often. I think it has more to do with the different texture of crust, and the fact that it is a little more difficult to chew crust, more than it has to do with the fact that American kids eat crappy bread.