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!

As an aside, did anyone else’s dinner ladies at school tell them to make sure they ate their crusts because it would make their hair curly? 48 years of eating my crusts and it still hasn’t worked…

The heel.

The crust now, but when I was growing up we called it the curly because my parents said it gave you curly hair!

The crusts. When I was a child, and we had fresh bread from the bakers, everyone always wanted the crusts (the end bits). But I still call them crusts even for supermarket sliced loaves. I have heard them called toppers too. I'm in the South West.

Heel for an ordinary loaf.

Knob end for a baguette. Obviously.

I call it the doup. Where I live doup means bum so I guess it's the bottom slice if that makes sense

Oh that made me laugh. Not heard that word in a while. My grandma was always threatening to ‘smack my doupie’ 😂, or complaining ‘that skirt doesn’t cover your doup’

Not applied it to bread - it’s always heel or heelie in my family .

@Dearg some other great "oup" words - coup, houp, loup, roup.
I should have used these when I was teaching phonics 😅

For a sliced sandwich style loaf its the crusts, for a smaller style crunchy bread its the nobby end

We call it the ender, but pronounce it "en'er"

Noggy of course !

Crust

The heel

Heel

Noggin Ends

Ends or crusts - Hampshire

This is called the crust-aka the best bit.

Crust

End bits.

Doorstop

Never heard it called Crusts!

The crust.

I've never heard it called anything else!

The crust. The end of a baguette is the knobbler.

The two end bits of a loaf are the crusts.

Unless it is a baguette in which case we call them the knobbly end bits.