CRUST RAGE

[SlightlyJaded]

Ok so in the grand scheme of things – not really a world class problem, but Oh. My. God. I have Crust Rage.

Time and time again, I feed children sandwiches/pizza etc, and they tell me they've ‘finished’ when in reality, all they have done is eat the ‘pointy bit’ and then move on to the next slice.

If a crust is really tough on a pizza or sandwich – fine, leave the actual crust. But more and more I am feeding DC friends who literally take one bite (the ‘point’) of each slice and then announce they’re finished but are ‘still hungry’

Of course you’re fucking hungry you have eaten about 1/8 of what I gave you.

My DC eat all the crusts on everything. Not because they are perfect but because they are greedy like their food. It drives me insane. Especially when their parents consider them to have ‘Eaten everything! Well done you!’ as well.

So AIBU to think that eating the pointy bits is NOT GOOD ENOUGH and to have serious crust rage?

Anyone else?

my kids tried that, i told them they had to eat right to their finger tips of where they held it!

I really like the pizza crusts. I used to save them to the end and eat them dipped in Mayo as a child.

Can I come for tea? I really want pizza now...

Would a dippy sauce help? I'm not a fan of crusts but if I have garlic mayo they get chowed down.

It's the spidery dungeon for them, I'm afraid. Serious scientific studies in journals have shown that children who do not eat crusts grow up to be shifty and feckless, with lacklustre tresses.

Good lord, the crunchy bits are not there to be enjoyed. They are penance for, er, that thing with the snake in the garden and the nude woman. You know - her with the fig leaf undercrackers.

Nip it in the bud now. By the time they emerge from the dungeon, they'll probably eat the crusts, the napkin and the floral centrepiece too.

So, are you encouraging them to eat crusts in order to make their hair curl?

I agree over bread crusts- the crust is the nicest bit on crusty bread, but pizza crusts taste like old wood and are pointless, I don't like the bit of pastry round the edge of quiches either it is the dryest thing in the universe.

I save pizza crusts, then spread them with butter and eat them in bed.

The best bit about having friends for tea is scissoring the crusts off to snarfle later. And one garners extra points because of presentation (triangle, no crust, maybe with apple slices and cheese cubes artfully scattered over)

\/ Kurri - great to see you.

I like pizza crusts. I even like the ones with the inner tube that is meant to be stuffed cheese, but is actually cheese-flavoured latex.

IHave. You eat pizza crusts. In bread. Spread with butter. How does one even decide that's a good thing to try?

But we are not talking about just the actual crusts. Which is still fucking annoying in my book, but I could just about manage to accept it - albeit with a cats bum mouth.

But one bite? A semi circle? The pointy bit only? That's not 'leaving the crusts' that cherry picking the absolute best bit (that normal people eat around and save till last) and discarding everything else under the guise of 'crusts'.

Talc I believe I once read a Serious Scientific Study that said eating just the pointy bits of slices of anything directly correlated to your chances of becoming a brain surgeon or NASA engineer.

• I am over the pond for a few months at the moment, staying with friends -so usually up when you are all in bed.

Have seen pizzas advertised on telly here that have crusts stuffed with bacon (so much BAAAACON you won't believe it !!!!)

I'm a big fan of crusts, pie crusts, quiche crusts, pizza crusts. So long as they don't break my teeth. Less keen on crusty bread.

Crusts are my fav esp if they are burnt.

I a child asks me for a sandwich with crusts removed, I will shave off the finest sliver imaginable and insist that they eat the remainder. One bite from a sandwich is a travesty in my eyes and it pains me to see other people's children doing it (mine is weird and doesn't eat sandwiches, so I am safe up on my high horse! ).

I would like to patent a sweet pizza that has a sort of fruit coulis instead of the tomato sauce and the layers of toppings, such as marshmallows, strawberry shoelaces and wine gums etc..

The stuffed crust would injected with jam. I have my people working on the danger element of third-degree burns from molten jam squirting out at 220 degrees, like a McDonalds Apple Pie thing. Not quite there yet.

www.foodnetwork.com/topics/dessert-pizza-recipes.html

The food network's way ahead of you! A place near us used to do one, but the sauce was nutella and there was a choice of fruit, marshmallows etc on there. Not sure about the stuffed crust, but it sounded like a recipe for diabetes without adding more sugar!

I hate this so much. DD has never been allowed to get away with it. Her grandma used to cut of crusts for her, but I've never pandered to her.

I find it really stressful at parties (both dd's parties when she was young and I made sarnies, or the school Christmas parties) when you end up throwing away perfectly good food.

at 'my people' talc
Goes to hunk what I can set 'My People' off to do.

My mum once cut the crusts off a sandwich for my DN when he was small. He still left a 'crust'.
Crusts are a state of mind it seems

Crusts are indeed a state of mind and I admit to being a crust avoider here. So certainly, any shaving of minute amount of crust off my sandwich would still have me leaving imaginary crusts.

That said, one bite out of the pointy bit of a pizza is downright ridiculous. Even the most crust-phobic amongst us knows that this.

So YANBU.

My DC were obliged to eat crusts from a very tender age, and never really made a fuss about it as they got older ('Resistance is useless! Resistance is useless!' They learned young to pick their battles.)

I used to cat's-bum mouth a lot clearing up after birthday parties.

But then, I'm horrible.

Crusts are a state of mind

That's actually profoundly true and enlightening into the evil word of crust avoidance.

YABU.

I hated eating the crusts when I was little, so I don't make the dcs eat them. They eat more than just the pointy bit but they do leave the crusts. So do I. In the bin they go bru ha ha ha.

There was a boy at one of my kids birthday parties who turned down every item of food on offer, I asked him what he ate at home and he said 'cucumber', so he sat in his party hat eating a plate of cucumber slices and seemed quite happy.