I know its been done before but what do you call the end bits of a loaf of bread?

[jmh740]

I call it one thing DH (who was brought up 400miles away) calls it another and DD19 calls it something totally different(wrong!).
Please help me prove noone else calls it what she does!

Ender or outsider - Glasgow

Crust on a sandwich loaf, nob on a baguette.
DH calls it a heel.

the front end is called the ‘the dick’ (when you open the loaf) and the back end is called the ‘bum’ (i’m scottish).

Crust.

I always thought it was called the heel because the heel on your feet is tougher/thicker skin than anywhere else on you.

Crusts

Heel

The outsider for a plain or pan loaf. A paricularly thick one on a plain loaf is a doorstop.
West of Scotland

Typo... too late to edit. Missed the t in particularly.

DH is knob or crust. Id say heel if it's a lumpy bit left over like the end of a baguette or tiger loaf.
If I'm cutting off the end of a tin loaded and spreading butter on it to eat, it's the crust.
I'm not saying it's at all rational or consistent...

I say crust but DH calls it the bum. I thought he/his family made it up but it sounds like there may be others out there! My kids are primary age so you can guess which parent they copy for this word…

Topper! Thank you! Family from Bristol

Outsider! West of Scotland

The crusts.

If a baguette we call it the nob end😄

It’s the nossy.

I’m with your husband!

Noggin.

I thought I was going to be the first to call it the bum! It’s the bum or cover for me, crust for other normal people..

Crust

The crust, I’m from Yorkshire

The nob end 😆

Topper.
Never to be eaten, but placed over the next slice to keep it fresh.
London.

The crust.

Brought up in the NW, never heard it called anything else (though I've since learned that some people call it the 'heel')

And for us, then placed at the bottom of the food waste caddy to stop the bag base getting all soggy and provide some structure.
Either that or toasted if we’ve run out of middle. I don’t mind it toasted, it’s quite nice.