I thought it was called the heel, but my son, in his 2nd grade wisdom, called it the butt.
I’ll have to rethink the crust/heel thing.
I figure if you’re the one to open the bag, you’re duty bound to eat the first piece, instead of cherry-picking further into the bag and leaving the “yucky” stuff for someone else, which is how it strikes me.
Many here claim the heels somehow protect the bread. I’m not sure I’m buying that. The squeeze, spin, fold method protects the bread just fine. I’d think the bread would mold before that forward-most slice would dry out.
Yeah, me too. Can you explain the reasoning behind that? 'Cause I can’t figure it out. There’s always a little internal struggle about throwing away the tie…I give in to it about halfway down the loaf.
I usually give the crusts to my dog, not because I don’t want them, but because it really makes his day when I do that.
When the closer-thingie is on the counter I can’t seem to see it 95% of the time within the 1.2 seconds I allow for scanning to comply with my wife’s wishes. Life is short.
Twist and fold underneath is the usual practice.
:: checks penises::
I am male–a man’s man, in fact–and I close the bread bag with the “thingie,” which I refer to by its proper appellation, “twist tie.”
My wife is female–a girl’s girl, in truth–and does not.
When anyone other that the Kimster does this, I am en-fucking raged and rant for hours and hours and hours and hours until the offender begins crying or kicks me in the nads.
When the Kimster does it, I think it’s cute. But with three exceptions, everything she does is cute.
Why would any retard “rip into” the bag? I’'m male, and I open and close the bag as any normal person should - using the closure provided.
Joe
I rip open vegetable bags, like potato bags, all the time. Not bread though, and I don’t think anyone here does.
I spin and use the twist tie/clip. I am female but I learned this from my dad who was one of the most anal retentive people about these sorts of things which includes refilling ice cubes trays and putting a trash bag back in the trash can after emptying it and you better damn well shake that bag open and fold the tops over the sides.!
In my house, we throw away the evil twist-ties immediately after purchase and use clippies instead.
I have arthritis in my hands, my husband is exceedingly male, twisty-ties and tag-style closers are too hard for the littlest grandkids, but we all dislike stale, dried out baked goods.
An added bonus is that the dumb cat doesn’t try to eat the clippies like she does twisty-ties.
Oh well. You appear to be somewhat intelligent as your still drawing breath. I never mention such trivial things to my wife. Better to die of mold spores than be subjected to the wrath of the wife. They make antibiotics from bread mold. As I’m sure you’re aware, nothing good will ever come from the pointing out of the foibles of ones wife.
I hang mine on the cupboard handle using 1/8" rope. The rope is tied in a loop and I wrap the loop around the bread into itself so it pulls tight from the hanging weight of the bread. It’s much faster than untying the wire and keeps the bread out of the way. Spin the bread, wrap the rope around the bread and hang it up.
Trivia, bread ties are colored based on the day baked.
I know a guy who met the inventer of “that plastic clip thing”. Fucking Millionaire.
I’m a guy and I use the twist tie, despite being extremely lazy in other aspects of my life. I guess the sheer annoyance at really wanting a sandwich right now only to discover the bread is bad has overwhelmed whatever satisfaction I might have had previously experienced by just chucking it. Plus, I don’t really see bread packages as rip-openable. It’s much easier to take the tie or clip off then try to find a seam in the plastic.
I do find that the twist tie is more annoying than the clip.
And I generally leave the crust to the end and only eat it if I haven’t already bought new bread. Sometimes I’ll go halfsies. I noticed today that if I use both crusts in one sandwich that is squishes the tuna out of the sides too easily compared to if there’s at least one regular slice.
Female, if I have a proper plasticky wire available I use that. If not, I sit the bread on the bunched up mouth of the bag. Many brands of bread here come with a strip of sticky tape which doesn’t reclose well, so I’ve saved plasticky wire from buying some computer wires for my breadbags.
That’s with british-american-style bread, of course. Baguettes don’t come in bags 
But the milk ring…now THAT’S a cat toy!!
I used to use the clip until I had kids. When my first was very young I read a case of a child with a perforated bowel caused by swallowing a bread bag clip so I started immediately throwing them in the bin on opening the bread. I have retained the habit ever since. I too just fold the bag over and sit the bread atop the open end.