Curious: Are you from a country without very good (crusted) bread?
In Switzerland, Germany and France (that I know of) the crust is often considered the tastiest part of the bread, at least when fresh. I only know of children and elderly people not eating the crust because it’s harder to chew.
I am from germany, and I don’t really agree with this assessment of the crust being the tastiest part. People definitely told me that many times, but I think it does just seem straightforwardly wrong by my own taste. I do still usually eat the crust though.
Interesting. I’m now wondering if dislike of crust is more widespread than I assumed. This strikes me as plausible because there is a lot of moral sentiment attached to not wasting food. This consumer survey from Switzerland found that consumers see the crust as more indicative of bread freshness than the crumb [low quality online survey]. So maybe people are also mixing up the crust as an indicator for quality with the actual taste of the crust?
I only know of children and elderly people not eating the crust because it’s harder to chew.
Interesting explanation, but does that hold for other foods—do kids/adults that don’t enjoy the crust because it’s harder tend to also dislike other difficult-to-chew foods? Anything from jerky to raw vegetables? And those that do enjoy it, enjoy chewing other harder foods?
Clearly, there are lots of crunchy/chewy foods kids are willing to eat or at least are not stereotyped as off-putting the way bread crusts are for kids.
It’d be interesting to tease apart what is causing the dislike—is it really texture, or taste or something else?
When I try to look up the question of why kids (often) don’t like crusts, there is the occasional person that frames it as an “American” thing. Other disagree pointing out Brits, Europeans etc. also feel this way.
But is there any evidence that this varies by country, culture or nationality? If so why might this be—differences in type of bread/baking styles?
Curious: Are you from a country without very good (crusted) bread?
In Switzerland, Germany and France (that I know of) the crust is often considered the tastiest part of the bread, at least when fresh. I only know of children and elderly people not eating the crust because it’s harder to chew.
I am from germany, and I don’t really agree with this assessment of the crust being the tastiest part. People definitely told me that many times, but I think it does just seem straightforwardly wrong by my own taste. I do still usually eat the crust though.
It depends on the kind of bread. I usually don’t eat the ends of sandwich bread loaves, but the crusts of artisan bread are the best part.
Interesting. I’m now wondering if dislike of crust is more widespread than I assumed.
This strikes me as plausible because there is a lot of moral sentiment attached to not wasting food.
This consumer survey from Switzerland found that consumers see the crust as more indicative of bread freshness than the crumb [low quality online survey]. So maybe people are also mixing up the crust as an indicator for quality with the actual taste of the crust?
Interesting explanation, but does that hold for other foods—do kids/adults that don’t enjoy the crust because it’s harder tend to also dislike other difficult-to-chew foods? Anything from jerky to raw vegetables? And those that do enjoy it, enjoy chewing other harder foods?
Clearly, there are lots of crunchy/chewy foods kids are willing to eat or at least are not stereotyped as off-putting the way bread crusts are for kids.
It’d be interesting to tease apart what is causing the dislike—is it really texture, or taste or something else?
When I try to look up the question of why kids (often) don’t like crusts, there is the occasional person that frames it as an “American” thing. Other disagree pointing out Brits, Europeans etc. also feel this way.
But is there any evidence that this varies by country, culture or nationality? If so why might this be—differences in type of bread/baking styles?