What is so terrible about the heel?

[NuclearNed]

Many of you refuse to eat the heels on a loaf of bread. You know who you are. You are the same people who won't drink the last little bit from a jug of milk. You also are the ones who leave the last perfectly good grape or two on an otherwise bare bunch.

What is the problem?

 

[Amused]

It's dry and usually crusty.

 

[acemcmac]

Or the people who don't drink the last ounce of beer because it's "backwash"

I don't like those people.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Amused
It's dry and usually crusty.

The rest of the loaf is wet? What is this prejudice against crustiness?

 

[kstu]

too crusty

 

[Praetor]

If it's homemade bread, I'll eat it. Store bought heal-bread is not appealing.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: kstu
too crusty

Again, there is the crustyness issue again. Whats so wrong about crustiness?

 

[loup garou]

Too dry.

 

[Cristatus]

I love the heel.

Never heard that thing with the milk, but I leave a bit of tea in the cup because I don't like the leaves' bits that manage to get through.

 

[ch33zw1z]

i eat whatever bread is left, just trying to save $$!

edit: as long as it's not moldy

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: kstu
too crusty

Again, there is the crustyness issue again. Whats so wrong about crustiness?

It's a matter of subjective taste. Some people like crustiness, some don't.

Much like art, taste for food is an individual thing and totally subjective.

Accept the diversity!

 

[Vegitto]

Depends on what type of bread. I usually eat it, though .

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: Praetor
If it's homemade bread, I'll eat it. Store bought heal-bread is not appealing.

QFT. The crust of your typical store bought pre-sliced loaf bread in the plastic bag (like the Wonder bread type) is somehow different than a loaf of bread you might bake yourself or buy from the bakery counter. Whereas I love the crust off of a fresh baked loaf of sourdough bread for example. . .I just do not like the end slice off a loaf of Wonder bread. In fact I don't like the crust at all on any slices but it is too much trouble to cut it off and since the middle slices have considerably less crust than the end slices, I tolerate it. But in my house, I typically reserve the end slices of the sandwich bread loaves for the birds and squirrels. I don't know why but the crust on the typical loaf of sliced sandwich bread is just dried out and over baked tasting. I like crusts that are a little hard on the outside and chewy kinda. But not dried out and burnt tasting.

 

[DeadByDawn]

I feed the bread heels to the chickens.

 

[KB]

I love the heel. Its filled with wheaty goodness.

 

[archiloco]

i eat it, but i am weird.

 

[jlbenedict]

The heel is usually too thin; only time I eat bread is when I'm making a sandwhich..
I don't throw the heel away though; it seems like when the heel is thrown away, that first piece of bread in the loaf is dry.

 

[Turin39789]

Waste not , want not

 

[tweakmm]

I love the Heels.
Hees.:heart:

 

[dullard]

Are we talking (a) mass-produced sliced bread, or are we talking (b) home baked/local bakery bread?

Mass-produced sliced bread:
[*]The ends are overcooked.
[*]The ends are sliced by machine and are often cut to an unusable size.
[*]The ends are dry because they are overcooked, not moist like the rest of the bread.
[*]The ends are exposed to air much more than the rest of the bread in the bag, thus the air makes the end much more stale than the rest. Plus that outer end usually molds first due to the air exposure.
[*]Mass-produced sliced bread is basically free, so why not throw out the bad parts and eat just the good parts?

Home baked/local bakery bread:
[*]This stuff is good throughout. Most people do eat the heel, so this whole thread is pointless.

Me personally, I leave the heel in there just so that it will be the piece that gets dry/moldy/stale and then toss it out when it reaches the other heel. I do eat the last grape. The mild goes bad (very rancid with chunks of milk floating on a wattery liquid base) before I reach the halfway point. So I'm supposed to eat these rancid milk chunks? I wish milk was sold in smaller quantities for reasonable prices. As it is, half gallon milk is cheaper than smaller quantities. I need ~1/5th gallons, but then I would finish the last bit of it.

 

[ATLien247]

I'd ask the same of those who don't eat the crust on a slice of pizza...

 

[Xyo II]

The heels have more nutritional values :thumbsup: and I always eat everything in my sight anyway.

 

[TecHNooB]

I just eat. Heel? What's that? If it's part of the loaf I eat it.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Einstein Element
The heels have more nutritional values

Um, may I ask the basis for this statement?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Many of you refuse to eat the heels on a loaf of bread. You know who you are. You are the same people who won't drink the last little bit from a jug of milk. You also are the ones who leave the last perfectly good grape or two on an otherwise bare bunch.

What is the problem?

I like heels, especially the high ones.

The real problem with the heel, it is like 1/2 a slice of bread.
it is thin, and nearly 1 square inch smaller than a real slice...

therefore, it burns in the toaster, it is worthless for use in a sandwich, unless you have 2... which is quite unpossible, and who the hell just wants to eat a plain piece of crusty bread, without either toasting it or making a sandwich.