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I know I am being unreasonable but……..

(105 Posts)
Sago Sat 08-Jun-24 09:48:18

I make all my own bread, it’s something I love doing, I find it cathartic, I also love the challenge with sourdough as unlike the ordinary brown loaves with sourdough you never quite know how it’s going to turn out!

However, it really annoys me when people leave their crusts, particularly adults!

Surely they cannot be that unpalatable?

How do you go through life not eating crusts?

I know IABU.

OurKid1 Mon 17-Jun-24 16:04:08

Bellanonna

😅 Tiley, and those of us whose mothers made us eat them got the annoyingly curly hair!

Or even slightly kinky (not in a weird way!) hair, because we only ate some of them?

Whiff Mon 17-Jun-24 19:08:29

GSM thank you I thought I was going daft. Well dafter than usual 🤣

Rodborough49 Wed 19-Jun-24 11:23:26

2 months ago I had a fall - knocked 3 teeth about, sliced through lip. I would love to be eating your crusts... save them for me when the NHS can sort me out!

knspol Wed 19-Jun-24 11:36:58

Always leave the crusts on sourdough bread as they hurt my gums and occasionally makes them bleed. Would not do this in someone else's home I would eat and suffer but at home or in a restaurant I would leave them.

candice1804 Wed 19-Jun-24 11:40:21

I always ate my crusts but unfortunately my hair could not be more straight than it is. I wanted curly hair. I paid a fortune in perms over many years.

leeds22 Wed 19-Jun-24 11:40:39

I used to tell my mother I didn't want curly hair. It turned out wavy, presumably because I only ate half my crusts.

cc Wed 19-Jun-24 11:41:03

My granddaughter loves crusts and her brother doesn't, so when they have soldiers with their eggs she has the outside pieces. Works very well for pizza too!

cc Wed 19-Jun-24 11:43:33

knspol

Always leave the crusts on sourdough bread as they hurt my gums and occasionally makes them bleed. Would not do this in someone else's home I would eat and suffer but at home or in a restaurant I would leave them.

I find the same knspol. A branch of a fashionable London bakery has opened nearby recently and I won't be a customer! Even their cakes and pastries are rather "worthy", not enough sugar or fat in them so really not very nice to eat.

Philippa111 Wed 19-Jun-24 11:57:12

Yes strong teeth needed for strong crusts. I do eat them...slowly. A thing that I don't understand is people who never finish a meal but always leave something on the plate. It's not that they are full as they always have room for cake and coffee afterwards.

Mariew1 Wed 19-Jun-24 12:02:08

You can dunk the crusts in your tea. Yummy!

Dizzyribs Wed 19-Jun-24 12:07:51

I have curly hair which I hate. It is still curly in spite of avoiding crusts for over 65 years. They lied!
Seriously though, I find crusts dry chewy and hard to swallow. And I was put off as a child by the copious amount of butter my mother insisted I put on and ate- I really don’t like butter.

Georgesgran Wed 19-Jun-24 12:13:09

I avoid crusts - just don’t like them - on any bread. Things like baguettes are a no-no for me.

Not to de-rail the thread, but my Mum (and Gran) used to cut the ends off chips, so I didn’t scratch my throat!! Perhaps they hoped I’d be a singer - believe me, I’m not, tone deaf am I.

Musicgirl Wed 19-Jun-24 12:23:44

Germanshepherdsmum

I have bucked the trend - I always eat my crusts and have straight hair! I think it’s bad manners to leave the crusts.

I’m the same. I think the crusts are the best bit. Even more surprising considering that my dad used to claim that eating the crusts would give you a hairy chest. Enough to put any little girl off. Thankfully, despite my love of crusts, my chest is as bald as it has always been.

Granra2 Wed 19-Jun-24 13:22:23

Same here. I have spent a small fortune on dental implants and do not want to risk breaking any more teeth.

Growing0ldDisgracefully Wed 19-Jun-24 14:09:42

Used to love the crust on bread but since the progression to dentures, I struggle even with the centre of bread, let alone the crusts so sadly bread has joined the growing list of things I can't eat anymore.
And I have to confess to not liking sourdough - far too hard for me even pre-dentures.

queenofsaanich69 Wed 19-Jun-24 15:41:32

Best part,like fighting my brother for the top of the hard honey,
I have curly hair too !

Bromley Wed 19-Jun-24 16:36:46

Oh dear…you wouldn’t like me then…I don’t like Sourdough bread. …sorry.

Retread Wed 19-Jun-24 16:42:04

My two big front teeth are brittle and thin - the dentist builds them up from the back or they'd be scalloped grin - and he told me not to eat sourdough crusts! Especially toasted. So I don't. smile

DeeAitch56 Wed 19-Jun-24 18:21:59

I love fresh bread crusts, however I can’t eat them anymore due to a combination of diabetes and partial dentures, you just never know what people have to contend with in their lives (I personally wouldn’t discuss my ‘short comings’ with anyone even friends)

Lilyflower Wed 19-Jun-24 19:15:24

Crusts are the bestbit and we share the crusts from the ends of the bread , one each, when I ( my breadmaker) bake it.

bridie54 Wed 19-Jun-24 22:42:35

I’m another who loves crusts, toasted or otherwise. Lovely dunked in soup as some others have suggested but I really like crunchy foods.

When I was wee, my Dad would have a proper Forfar Bridie for Saturday lunch and he left the crust. I was always around to clean that up!

On a similar note I always eat all of a baked potato, loving the crispy skins.

I can understand though that teeth and gum issues prevent some from eating these crispy, chewy delights. And thank goodness the few I have left are strong enough.

DrWatson Thu 20-Jun-24 02:10:06

Sure, some crusts can be too tough. BUT -- don't waste them, chop them up, put them out for birds.

LaCrepescule Thu 20-Jun-24 06:34:59

You aren’t. I love crusts but they have to be loaded with creamy unsalted butter!

Curtaintwitcher Thu 20-Jun-24 06:39:13

If royalty can have their crusts cut off so can the rest of us!

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