When you were a kid, did you eat your sandwiches with the crusts on or cut off. I ate mine with the crusts on as it was

[debm55]

supposed to give you curly hair.

[Americanme]

1. I ate the crust

I don't remember ever being given the option of crust removal.

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much Americanme.

[hlthe2b]

2. Crusts on--my Mother would have smacked us for doing otherwise.

We were not poor, but we did NOT waste.

[debm55]

5. Oh. Thank you very much hlthe2b

[Skittles]

66. yup

my parents would not put up with that....NOPE

[OldBaldy1701E]

67. Mine would not have smacked us, mine would have laughed.

Then we would have gotten something along the lines of, "You are not leaving until you eat that crust.", or "Do I look like I am made of money?"

[hlthe2b]

68. I'm being non-literal about the "smacking..." In my time, a stern comment was considered a "smack down..."

[OldBaldy1701E]

69. In my house, it involved actual smacking.

But, that was dad, not mom. She just had 'The Look' (Pat.Pen.), which would shrink you into a crying little ball in a second.

[Glorfindel]

3. My mother trimmed the crusts

and saved them in the freezer for bread pudding or for dressing at Thanksgiving.

[debm55]

6. That's a good idea. I never thought of that. Thank you Glorfindel

[anciano]

7. With the crusts on ....

and the two end pieces of the loaf have always been my favorite slices.

[debm55]

8. Thank you anciano. I never ate the end pieces. Don't know why, just didn't.

[SheltieLover]

32. I live the crusty end pieces too!

[JoseBalow]

9. I believe that the crust is the best part of bread

[KarenS]

10. me too!! nt

[debm55]

16. Thank you KarenS

[debm55]

13. Thank you JoseBalow. I like the crust on Italian and French bread, but not on white bread

[Midnight Writer]

51. Me, too. I always ate the crust first. I loved it.

[stopdiggin]

11. in line with others here ... my mother would have nipped that nonsense in the bud, 'tout suite' !

We have neither the time nor patience ... (nor, likely, the spare change in grocery budget .. )

And if you don't feel like eating it ... "Fine - your choice." "See ya back here for dinner."

[debm55]

14. Thank you very much, stopdiggin.

[rsdsharp]

12. Crusts on! My mother had been a T4 in the WACs in WWII (technician rank equal to buck sergeant).

Suggesting going crustless would have triggered scorn only a sergeant could heep.

No thanks.

[debm55]

15. LOL Thank you rsdsharp

[Phoenix61]

17. Crust on. nt

[debm55]

18. Thank you Phoenix61

[justaprogressive]

19. The crusts

because I was getting British sandwiches (2 slices bread with a single piece of bologna). Needed every bit!

*When I first saw a submarine sandwich I fainted.

[debm55]

20. Thank you very much justaprogressive.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. As Is

I don't think it ever would have occurred to my mom to cut the crust off.
She grew up pretty poor.

[debm55]

23. Thank you very much ProfessorGAC.

[SheltieLover]

31. Both of my parents lived through the Great Depression

Wasting food was never even considered.

[debm55]

65. Thank you very much SheltieLover. I understand

[surfered]

22. Crust on. Crust off was for "pinkies up" tea parties

[debm55]

24. HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHHAH. thank you surfered!

[AllaN01Bear]

25. the crust on. never heard of that one

[debm55]

40. Thank you very much AllaN01Bear. The white bread from the store, I disliked. Other bread crusts I liked.

[patphil]

26. Crust on. My Mom would never have allowed me to throw good food away.

[debm55]

39. Thank you, very much patphil.

[Srkdqltr]

27. Crusts are the best part.

[markodochartaigh]

28. My Grandmother baked our bread.

I think that I was in my twenties before I knew that there were some people who didn't eat the crust.

[debm55]

38. Thank you markodochartaigh.There were some in grade school that had their crust cut

[SheltieLover]

29. Crust on.

Nice to see you again!

[debm55]

36. Thank you so much, I missed you too.

[TexLaProgressive]

30. I'm a crust eater

Part of my growing up was in New Orleans. We ate aa lot of French bread and baguettes. There would be non violent argument as to who got the nose of the baguettes. I like waffles over pancakes because more crusty and also less than fluffy biscuits. Once i found a paper sack of bread curst that my aunt was going to feed to the duck, geese and swans. I was home alone and watching TV. I ate them all. I also like pie crust and pizza bones.

[debm55]

35. Thank you so much TexLaProgressive.

[stillcool]

33. wow...my husband had an aunt

that told him that. Whichever way you were supposed to get curly hair he did the other. Never heard that from anyone else.

[debm55]

34. Thank you stillcool.

[stillcool]

37. are you from New York?

[debm55]

41. HAHAHAHA, no I have live south of Pittsburgh. I do like a harder crust.

[electric_blue68]

42. I never even heard of that till was an adult!....

For end crusts...Italian, French baguettes, rye (NO caraway seeds!), pumpernickel!

[debm55]

45. Thanks electric_blue68

[marble falls]

43. We kids had no choice. Part of it was there were six of us.

[debm55]

44. Thank you very much marble falls.

[chowmama]

46. Waste food? Oh, hell no!

I think if your parents were from a wartime and rationing background, that wasn't a thing. We'd have had to sit at the table until we ate them.

Ironically, Mom continued to save every scrap, in the refrigerator until it became moldy and she could justify throwing it out. When we visited as adults, we always tried to get her to let us clean out the fridge. She felt guilty about every discarded bit. Next time we came, it would be just as bad. At least they never ate any of it.

And as a kid, I had strategies to keep from eating the food I didn't like. Our kitchen table had structures underneath it that were effective shelves - a lot of food got surreptitiously shoved under there. And once I wore a plastic 'crafts' apron to the table because I knew she was serving overboiled canned mixed vegetables. I hated them. Those pockets held a lot. Not knowing what else to do, I buried the whole mess in the hamper, under the other dirty laundry. It must have been awful by the time she found it.

But she never admitted to cleaning it up or emptying the underside of the table. Dad would have gone volcanic. It just quietly disappeared.

[debm55]

47. Thank you chowmama for sharing your post with us.

[radical noodle]

48. Crust on

Waste not, want not. Besides, my mother worked and didn't have time to deal with cutting off the crusts.

[debm55]

57. Thank you very much, radical noodle.

[area51]

49. Crusts on.

Sometimes I'd pull off the crusts and eat them first.

[debm55]

64. Great idea, area51.

[dai13sy]

50. My Mom wouldn't have let me waste the bread

[debm55]

63. Very true, dai13sy. Thank you.

[boonecreek]

52. I ate the crust.

My father said it would put hair on my chest.
He was right, it worked!

[debm55]

62. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Thank you very much boonecreek

[Emile]

53. We ate the crust.

[debm55]

61. Thank you very much, Emile.

[surrealAmerican]

54. It never even occurred to me that a sandwich could exist without crust.

We used wonder bread or its off-brand equivalent. The crust was the only thing that held that stuff together.

[debm55]

60. HAHAHAHHHAHA. thank you surrealAmerican. That is so true.

[Aristus]

55. Crusts on.

I always wondered what the deal was with kids not liking the crust. I always associated the crusts-off thing with impossibly-picky, wimpy kids.

[debm55]

59. Thank you Aristus.

[beemerphill]

56. Crust On

We were taught that food was not to be wasted. That meant eating the crust and cleaning your plate. We could take anything we wanted, but we had to eat it—period!
These habits have stuck with me all my life and I see no reason to change now.

[debm55]

58. Thank you very much, beemerphill

[werecat2020]

70. I eat the crust.

I still occasionally enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I will often eat the crust first, saving "the best part" for last, the soft middle part of the bread that also has more peanut butter and jelly and has that burst of flavor. And if bread is still perfectly edible and safe to eat, though maybe not quite soft enough any more for the perfect PB&J sandwich, just lightly toast the bread. In that scenario, I might add some garlic, olive oil, and herbs, instead of peanut butter and jelly. Anyway, yes, and especially being working-class and paying for my own food, I am conscious about the whole "hey, that's perfectly good food" thing.