The End Slice

[SpiderChrist]

It goes by many names; knob, knobby, butt, crust, end-bit, but one thing I think we can all agree on, it's shit.

Is it fuck as like.

[poodlefaker]

Yeh but if the heel's 3cm, with some careful breadknife action  you've  got yourself a whole extra slice.

[Cerys]

Wicker Man for Cerys please.

Why?  It protects the inner slices from premature aging, and leaves you with two end pieces for the making of the perfect crunchy peanut butter sandwich when the rest of the loaf is all eaten.

[the]

The end bits are best for when you're having something 'on toast', whatever that may be. So that's my tip, if you're looking to have something 'on toast', use the end bits. This was brought to you by the On Toast Information Board

It's not worth starting a new thread but could I see if anyone is down to chat about reaching behind the outermost slice to obtain a protected slice before replacing the outermost slice?  I think it's a more widespread practice than people let on.

Behold

[Dex Sawash]

I was a crust dodger until I finally stopped rejecting the entire commercial concept and tried this



The texture is a bit close at the ends but there is total seed fuckdown. I really hope Dave is a forgivable old stoner and not a dead-inside pitchman.

[buzby]

This is correct.

And it's great. The tastiness of the heel varies depending on the brand - for example, the toasted heel of a Mother's Pride loaf is a wonderful thing.

No 'heel' in Liverpool (which is surprising, considering the Irish influence), but the thickest crust slices going are on the Warburtons/Tesco/One Stop/Jacks/Aldi Seeded Wholemeal Batch loaves (they are all the same thing, made by Warburtons, but the 'own brand' verisons are almost half the price). They are easily 2 slices/3-4cm thick at each end, and my favourite part of the loaf.

It's not worth starting a new thread but could I see if anyone is down to chat about reaching behind the outermost slice to obtain a protected slice before replacing the outermost slice?  I think it's a more widespread practice than people let on.  I'm going to judge you, just so you know.

I do this too. On unsliced loaves I always start in taking slices from the middle as well and then put the two remaining sections back together in the bag, so they keep for longer and there's less wasteage.

[confettiinmyhair]

The ends of a loaf always seem to be the best slices for soup dipping.

[Sebastian Cobb]

On unsliced loaves I always start in taking slices from the middle as well and then put the two remaining sections back together in the bag, so they keep for longer and there's less wasteage.

I briefly lived in a houseshare where a bread thief would burst a sliced loaf bag in the middle and take slices out. Killing's too good, frankly.

[Smeraldina Rima]

I was a crust dodger until I finally stopped rejecting the entire commercial concept and tried this



The texture is a bit close at the ends but there is total seed fuckdown. I really hope Dave is a forgivable old stoner and not a dead-inside pitchman.

I thought that was David Crosby of Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young) with a sort of George Foreman Grill, Barry Norman Pickled Onions thing.

But it would have gone against one of David Crosby's BrainyQuotes: 'I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.'

[Clatty McCutcheon]

It is called the heel of the bread. Crusts are the bit round the edges of each slice.

In Glasgow, the big end slices are/were called the ootsiders. 'Outsiders' if you're posh.  Probably a dying term though, in the face of bag-yoo-ettes and other fancy foreign breid.

[Inspector Norse]

I thought that was David Crosby of Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young) with a sort of George Foreman Grill, Barry Norman Pickled Onions thing.

But it would have gone against one of David Crosby's BrainyQuotes: 'I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.'

The real Dave of Dave's Killer Bread fame is an even more interesting Dave than David Crosby, mindboggling a concept though that might be.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2018/2/27/17055800/daves-killer-bread-dave-dahl-feature

[checkoutgirl]

This is correct.

And it's great. The tastiness of the heel varies depending on the brand - for example, the toasted heel of a Mother's Pride loaf is a wonderful thing.

Often you get a thin heel which if you toast well can be brittle like melba toast and is great for pate.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

If the ends are the heels, does that mean the middle slice is the bread's genitals?

[Abnormal Palm]

Wish there were an inverted BIMBO version that was all crusts

[idunnosomename]

I was a crust dodger until I finally stopped rejecting the entire commercial concept and tried this



The texture is a bit close at the ends but there is total seed fuckdown. I really hope Dave is a forgivable old stoner and not a dead-inside pitchman.

i though that said Dave's HITLER bread at first

[rack and peanut]

Wish there were an inverted BIMBO version that was all crusts

Bimbo must be stashing his offcuts somewhere, the bastard bread bear cunt

[seepage]

I've heard he's best friends with creepy koala Kenny

[Flatulent Fox]

The crust is the best bit.
                                       I bin the bits in between until someone comes up with a solution.
Throw it at quacks and biibbly-boodel birds because they can't get enough of it.

Ahh ↓

[touchingcloth]

My partner insists that it's called the heel (rather than the correct word, crust) and is disgusting. They routinely give me the old side-eye when I make the crusts into toast. Especially good for putting marmite on for some reason.

It's what someone else said / they absorb more butter than other slices, so you end up with a slice saturated and pissing with hot butter and a smear of Marmite on the surface. A close run thing with the crumpet in the competition for best roasted good item with Marmite. 

[ImmaculateClump]

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/04/15/warburtons-responds-social-media-launching-all-ends-loaf

we're pleased to have baked limited editions for our most discerning crust lovers on Facebook.

Imagine following warburtons on facebook.
Keeping up with all the latest bread goss.
Imagine being a discerning crust lover.

I was thinking about the crust at the open end of the bread, how everyone uses it like a lid, they lift it up to get at the good bread underneath and by the end of the loaf, so many dirty fat hands have been groping it, and one of you lot ends up eating that.
I just put them out for the birds and the rats to fight over. That's all they're good for.

[Dex Sawash]

i though that said Dave's HITLER bread at first

Will never un-see that now

[Gregory Torso]

I call it the front door. When you take from the loaf, you must lock up after yourself. I also like broccoli, sprouts and yucky girls.

[touchingcloth]

I was thinking about the crust at the open end of the bread, how everyone uses it like a lid, they lift it up to get at the good bread underneath

That's not why I do it. I do it because I know that the crust is the only slice man enough to take repeated exposure to the open end of the bag, unlike those pussy double-flayed inner slices. Let the hard bastard on the end take the blows, then thank him for his service by putting him in the toaster. "Not now", I tell him when opening the bag and realising that his protection is still needed for the remaining wusses. "Two more rounds and then I'll take you in my mouth, my man."

Days when the first and last crust are the only two pieces remaining in the bag so you can fill your toaster with crust are the fucking dream.

[Kryton]

The crust is the best bit.
                                       I bin the bits in between until someone comes up with a solution.
Throw it at quacks and biibbly-boodel birds because they can't get enough of it.

Ahh ↓

Obvious Loafer pun.

[flotemysost]

I've heard the old wives tale about how if you don't eat your crusts, your hair won't curl, but the level of vehement crust antipathy in this place is suggesting a likely correlation between crust consumption and hair growth in general.