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saalweachter · 2025-02-21T16:29:42 1740155382

This is an absurdly common request from small children.

If you don't do it, you may still find them eating around the crusts, for instance if you cut a sandwich in half, or even gnawing through a single point on the sandwich's crust and then leaving behind a crust-rind when they're done.

As a parent, you're then left with no other choice than to eat all of the grilled cheese rinds yourself, so you don't tend to push too hard on the childish habit.

crazygringo · 2025-02-21T16:37:22 1740155842

As a kid, I hated the crust. It tasted gross.

But that's because it was gross industrial bread to begin with, and the crust was just drier and unpleasant.

But I also remember eating sourdough with its chewy crust and loving that.

Cutting off crusts is very specific to bread that is bad to begin with, I think.

cafard · 2025-02-21T16:21:03 1740154863

I grew up in the Wonder Bread days, and definitely remember people cutting off the crusts.

niceice · 2025-02-21T16:47:26 1740156446

Rich vs poor. The rich can literally chop off food and throw it in the trash.

barrucadu · 2025-02-21T16:55:35 1740156935

But the crust is nice, why would you throw it away just because you're rich?