I will zillionith that crusts are the best part but as someone else said, the exception is white bread where crusts suck.
In that type of bread, I can barely even tell the difference between the brown crust and the interior. (And, yes, I do eat a reasonable amount of that bread, as that’s what I like for toast, grilled cheeses, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, etc.)
Raw cookie dough is one of life’s great pleasures. There is nothing else like it. Cake batter is better than the cake by far; brownie batter is not quite as lovely as brownies but it comes close.
I adore the heel of the bread on home made bread, but purchased bread crust is so bland as to be almost invisible. It’s like it’s not even there. My poor children have been raised on mostly purchased bread (because their mother is too lazy to bake daily and they go through a lot of bread) and they have no appreciation for a good crusty loaf. It’s sad. I feel I have failed them as a mother. 
I guess cookie dough just taste better where as crust is hard and not chewy.
Raw cookie dough is wonderful and there is also that feeling of getting away with something bad. I can’t stand cookie dough ice cream probably because it’s not a guilty pleasure because you know it’s been pasturized and filled with chemicals and it just doesn’t taste the same. It’s also cold, while good raw cookie dough is warm. I don’t much like cake or brownie batter.
As far as crusty bread goes-I don’t like the real crusts. First of all, I cannot master eating them without them shattering and making a huge mess and I hate to have to spend 20 minutes cleaning the counter and floor every time I want a bite of bread and you never get all of the crumbs and then you get ants unless you vacuum every time. In addition, the little shards always seem to go down my cleavage and into my bra and end up torturing me for the rest of the day. I’ll eat a good crusty toasted bagel that doesn’t fall apart, but I cannot master a baguette.
There’s a reason why cookie dough ice cream exists, whereas bread crust ice cream does not.
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I can take or leave cookie dough but the crust or corner pieces of almost every cooked food is generally the best part. Even on a lot of pizzas.
When my mother makes blueberry muffins, she always holds one back in batter form for me. It is never less than amazing!
Have you tried frozen dough? Its way easier than making bread from scratch, but still way tastier than commercial bread. It does take some experimentation, I messed up a few loaves before I figured out the timing and temperature control to get it to rise properly. Cost of the dough is typically less than commercial bread, too.
I read the thread title totally differently than it was intended. I thought the comparison was uncooked cookie dough to uncooked crust, like pastry crust dough. I was set to defend pastry crust dough, because I’ve always loved eating some of the scrap bits left over after rolling and forming the crust.
I prefer crispy food; so I’ll take your crusts and bake the cookie dough.
I used to think that crusts were burned. I didn’t start eating them until I was a teenager, at least.
Just don’t get confused and eat raw bread dough. That doesn’t turn out well.
Thank you. This is the best explanation I have come across as to why I am a heathen and athiest. 
I agree. I actually shudder when I see women spooning raw dough into their mouths.
Now, true, on cheap mass produced bread? I skip the end pieces. But on good bakery bread, crust is tasty.
The sodium content has a basic appeal, too, in addition to the soft consistency.
I like mine all salt and batter-y…
Ok, I must say… I was talking about commercially bought bread. I do love the corners and crispies of home made bread and cake…
But the meme of people in general, especially children, not liking bread crust LONG pre-dates the era of “commercially-baked sandwich bread”.
Children have been coaxed or scolded to eat the crusts of bread literally for centuries. And it’s not just among children that crust was traditionally regarded as less preferable, either. The proverb “if you can’t get crumb [meaning the soft interior part of the bread, not scattered crumbs], you’d best eat crust” dates back at least to the early 19th century.
So no, the OP’s not nonsense. Even if many of us right-thinking people nowadays know that good bread crust is in no way inferior to what it encloses, the OP is right that there’s a long-standing cultural perception to the contrary.
(And Bryan, I saw what you did there. :mad: 
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