# Is the crust really the healthiest part of bread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010 "2007-01-29T21:04:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/41 "2007-01-31T19:17:54Z")
“Waste not, want not.” People who waste so much food deserve to live future lives as starving refugees. Eating the crust (and everything else on your plate) is good for your _karma_, man. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/42 "2007-01-31T19:56:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Duality] “Waste not, want not.” People who waste so much food deserve to live future lives as starving refugees. Eating the crust (and everything else on your plate) is good for your _karma_, man. [/QUOTE] “and everything else on your plate” is one of the reasons there is a huge obesity problem these days. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/43 "2007-02-01T03:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] “and everything else on your plate” is one of the reasons there is a huge obesity problem these days. [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say the obesity problem is the result of _putting too much on plates_? Not to forget laziness, of course. Wasting food is every bit as bad as wasting gasoline, energy or other resources. When you throw away food, you are throwing away the energy which was expended to produce and deliver that food. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/44 "2007-02-01T07:24:36Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Pig intestines. Sheep stomachs. [/QUOTE] Chitlins or chitterlings. At _yakiniku_ places here, called _chô_. Menudo, haggis. I’ve only had menudo and _chô_, but they’re not that bad. I’m sure there are people who really like them. The appearance (and taste, and palate) of headcheese is appalling. [Lips and assholes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095253/) indeed. The stuff that goes into hot dogs seems downright yummy compared to that. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/45 "2007-02-01T07:34:06Z")
I will second Sleel. Yakiniku stands make the hotdogs at 7-11 look like gourmet dinner. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010/46 "2007-02-01T11:24:27Z")
Crusts arn’t heathier. But they do make your hair curly. Everyone knows that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-crust-really-the-healthiest-part-of-bread/390010.md?page=2)