a random poll involving bread

[laylee]

I bought a loaf of fruit bread on my way to work today so I could have fruit toast with my coffee for morning tea. This, of course, got me thinking about what people do with the end crusts on their bread and if, like me, they always use up the entire loaf or if they do something else with their crusts.

[Poll #1418031]

BTW, the fruit toast was deelish!

Comments

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Where's the 'crusts are the best bit' option? We didn't get many crusts as children because my father laid claim to them.

Toast and Marmite/generic yeast extract is my fave.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

I was going to put Vegemite down, but then I realised that it would only make sense to the Aussie half of my flist. Plus, I do have a weakness for hot toast and jam and a nice cup of tea :~)

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I can't really answer that. We eat bread with the crusts, we don't cut them off. It's really unusual to cut them off in our country. Only little kids and old people without teeth don't eat them.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

We eat the crusts as well in Australia, but what I'm referring to here are the end slices of a sliced loaf of bread. I guess it got a bit lost in translation. Some people I know don't like them and throw them away and other think they're great. My mum uses them to make bread crumbs for cooking while my sister saves them to feed to the swans at the lake near her house. Personally I love to turn them into toast and slather them with butter and Vegemite!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh, those. We call them "patky" as in "heels" and I love them too. But one has to have good teeth to chew them properly :P

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

And if I don't want to eat it/don't feel like eating it, then I throw it to the birds.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

I give mine to the possums. I'm so close to the river they everywhere around my place.

[alaira.livejournal.com]

Oh man, and I skipped breakfast this morning. Hungry for toast with peanut butter and jam now (combined ticky options ftw!).

If nobody eats the end of the bread, we usually dry it to make crumbs. Seems to me that we would consume more bread than breadcrumbs though, and since we are not overrun with crumbs, I'm guessing someone must eat the ends of the loaf...but it isn't usually me...

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound like something out of Dickensian London, but back when I was chambermaiding, when I was young, we got fed so badly that we practically used to fight over who got the ends of the bread for their toast, because there was more of it, and the habit's never died.

[tookhernowhere.livejournal.com]

I've never liked eating the heels of bread. :P My family always did. And I used to, always, when I had less money. I find that they're best in sandwiches, paired with a normal slice--you wind up eating heel twice, but it's less noticeable each time.

Now I take pleasure in being rich enough that I'm never compelled to eat heels. (Nor any other desperate or thrifty food, like my mom's standbys and anything I relied on heavily in my broke temp days.) Heels only feature if they're all that's left and I'm too lazy to go to the store.

[kerche.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen or knew there was FRUIT bread?!?! Interesting!!! What specific fruits are in it?

I really love raisin bread/bun :) Yummmm I'm hungry now...lol

Strawberry jam FTW!! and PB too

[laylee.livejournal.com]

Fruit bread and raisin bread are pretty much the same thing. The place I get mine is one of those artisan bakeries and they always include dried apricot as well as raisins and dates in their fruit bread. It's very very yummy!

[eskarinasmith.livejournal.com]

Mum uses the 'heels' of fruit bread in bread and butter pudding. Yum!