Do you like crusts ? I don’t. But I don’t like waste either. I’ll bypass the first crust for slices from the middle of the loaf where the bread is softest. When I get to near the end of the loaf, I might just start a new loaf to avoid the crusts, but keeping the old loaf available. Sometimes the old crusts get too stale. Sometimes I’ll eat them making sure I limit the crust experience to one sandwich with two crusts rather than spreading the less than optimum culinary experience over two sandwiches with one crust each.
My wife however keeps forgetting. When she makes my sandwiches she’ll use the crusts first and then feels she’s doing me a favour by minimizing the intensity crust experience by only using one crust per sandwich.
The crust is my favorite part. That said, when I’m eating bread that’s of uniform size and already been sliced, I do not eat the heels until the very end, in order to bookend the interior pieces and keep them fresher tasting. When it’s an oblong loaf-shaped piece of bread, I go for the ends immediately.
I don’t like the crusts, and I no longer feel obliged to eat them. When I was poor, I ate the crusts. We are no longer poor, and can afford to throw away a couple of slices from each loaf.
My husband eats the crusts sometimes, but he doesn’t eat as much bread as I do.
We call it the heel of the loaf. It took me a second to realized you didn’t mean the edges of the bread.
I don’t care. Unless I’m making a grilled cheese sandwich, I just eat the heel/crust when I open the new loaf, or if I’m eating the last slice. If it’s homemade bread, I seek out the end pieces.
Is this like what people call the heel of the bread, as Rhiannon says? I usually just call it the “ends.” Crust is the stuff that surrounds the slice, and hell yes I eat that. I eat the ends last, mostly under some likely mistaken belief that it keeps the inside parts fresh longer. I usually freeze the bread before too long.
Crust always gets eaten last. Partially because it preserves the bread, partially because it doesn’t taste as good. If the bread has gone stale by then, so be it - I bet the ducks down by the wharf would like some snacks.
I skip the crust and eat the rest of the loaf, then eat both crusts together at the end. My reasoning is that leaving the crusts intact helps to keep the rest of the loaf from drying out or getting misshapen.
Homemade or bakery bread, I love the heel and will it it first. Store-bought processed bread, though, the heels get thrown away (or fed to the ducks in the pond nearby).
The crust of plain white bread, including and especially the heels, isn’t anything particularly delightful. The crust of real bread, on the other hand, is pure delight and I greediily devour it as soon as I can get my hands on it.
