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What do you call the ends of your bread?

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rabbitheadlights · 27/04/2019 15:18

Following on from another post ... What do you call the end of a loaf? I've always called it the heal .... Everyone I know calls it a crust... Is there any more?

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Greeborising · 27/04/2019 16:56

Friends gran calls it the knob end 🤨

bridgetreilly · 27/04/2019 16:56

I would say heel and crust are slightly different things, for me. The crust is the generic word for the outside of the loaf and also the first and last slice of it. The heel is the last bit of an unsliced loaf - could be up to 2 or 3" wide - left for the next day.

It's DEFINITELY not a heal, though.

AllStar14 · 27/04/2019 16:57

Noddy. It's what my mum and dad used to call it but I've never heard anyone else use it!

SoHotADragonRetired · 27/04/2019 16:58

The heel (N Irish).

BillyAndTheSillies · 27/04/2019 16:59

Bread back or crust.

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 27/04/2019 17:00

Crust or nob end.

missingdadd · 27/04/2019 17:05

Call it the bum bread

Witchtower · 27/04/2019 17:10

Bum

Tattletale · 27/04/2019 17:24

The chief!

NottonightJosepheen · 27/04/2019 17:28

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Ni58 · 27/04/2019 17:31

I call it the crusts but my brother calls it the ‘keep fresh’ and believes they should be left until the rest of the loaf is eaten. I can see the logic but they’re the best bits! I often root to the bottom of the bag so I can have both crusts for the ultimate toasted sandwich!

PillowTalker · 27/04/2019 17:32

Heel

Nanalisa60 · 27/04/2019 17:33

Heel

Ohhellothereladyface · 27/04/2019 17:34

The crusts

outsho · 27/04/2019 17:34

Crust

Eanair · 27/04/2019 17:35

Heel (Irish). My mother used to tell us about an elderly nun when she was at school who used to say 'Eat those up, girls, they're the Lord's heels'. Envy (not envy)

mummyof2boys30 · 27/04/2019 17:36

Heel - northern irish

sparklefarts · 27/04/2019 17:39

It's the crust on a generally supermarket packet loaf, but 'the knobby' on a fresh loaf

user1478299641 · 27/04/2019 17:59

Heel. I'm Irish.

supadupapupascupa · 27/04/2019 18:09

Bobby

supadupapupascupa · 27/04/2019 18:09

Grr nobby

babayjane67 · 27/04/2019 18:10

Topper!

Blackandpurple · 27/04/2019 18:14

Crystyn - I’m Welsh

NottonightJosepheen · 27/04/2019 18:18

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jamrollyolly · 27/04/2019 18:20

I call it a crust, my two kids convinced me that they and everyone they know call it Bob ( Back of Bread). We live in the South but I'm northern so I believed them and thought it was a southern thing!

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