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What do you call the ends of your bread?

224 replies

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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Laura221 · 27/04/2019 19:26

The nob end. It didn't have a special name before I met my husband though it was just bread

Vio112 · 27/04/2019 19:29

No one else call them "cobbles"? That's what I grew up with... Might be a northern thing?

Blackandpurple · 27/04/2019 19:29

nottonight I’m north and i think the south Walians call it crwst..... Celtic all the same along with you!

willowandsage · 27/04/2019 19:30

It's the knobby bit!

Coulddowithanap · 27/04/2019 19:31

Always just called it the ends.

GPatz · 27/04/2019 19:32

DH calls it 'The Doorstop'

StoneofDestiny · 27/04/2019 19:34

Heel
Crust is the top.

borntobequiet · 27/04/2019 19:36

Haven’t RTFT but if no one has posted this yet, there’s a relevant question, I think:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

MsLayla · 27/04/2019 19:38

Heel or end bits

missmartini · 27/04/2019 19:38

Outsider

Nothininmenoggin · 27/04/2019 20:09

Heel

Kismett · 27/04/2019 20:12

I’d call them the ends and I’m American.

Ohyesiam · 27/04/2019 20:14

The gizzy. And. Thought it was a bit unusual, but didn’t expect to be the only thing one. Looking at the family member it came from, it could be London or Newcastle in origin?

Baguette has Lucky Ends in our house.

HateIsNotGood · 27/04/2019 20:19

The Heel is the ends and The Crust is all of the outside bit - except for soft sliced bread which doesn't have a crust until you make sandwiches or toast and then the outside edges are The Crusts.

asteri76 · 27/04/2019 20:19

Bums...

Aprillygirl · 27/04/2019 20:25

Breads bum. It used to make the kids laugh and make them want to eat it when they were little Grin

brizzlemint · 27/04/2019 20:29

the topper

HateIsNotGood · 27/04/2019 20:30

ASFAIK a Doorstop is a really thick slice cut from an uncut loaf which may be, but not necessarily cut from the Heels/Ends, etc.

In the '70s we had a bread man who delivered still warm bread on a Weds - I'd get to the bugger first and have at least an inch and a half slathered in thick butter and honey.....bliss.

poppinpink · 27/04/2019 20:32

Endy

lilywillywoo · 27/04/2019 20:33

I'm glad to see some other people also call it the bum bit, I thought that was just my (odd) family! Tend to call it the heel otherwise (also Scottish)

LadyOfTheCanyon · 27/04/2019 20:44

It's the Lid

Moralitym1n1 · 27/04/2019 20:46

DH is Irish & calls it the heel.

Same here.

BlueJava · 27/04/2019 21:11

The end bit!

cheesenpickles · 27/04/2019 21:12

Heel for me and crust for dh.

Okwhereisit · 27/04/2019 21:14

Outsider