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When being offered some toast at my girlfriends house, her son asked me if I minded the heel. This is completely new to me as I have always called it a crust.
What is it called in your home?
Outsider
A toasted Scottish plain loaf outsider is one of life’s greatest pleasures
I call it a bread Steak. It’s something I dreamt up to stop the kids throwing them away / refusing them. Can’t beat a bit of remarketing.
They’re also usually about 150% the weight of a normal slice which is a good way to cheat a diet / yourself of a few valuable calories.
Crust here too, but I've heard both.
Is this a North / South divide thing?
Outsider. Definitely a Scottish thing I think.
It was said by someone Scottish.
I t was said by someone Scottish.
Probably called it that because he thought ye widny ken wit an ootsider wis
Gosh you Scotch are an odd bunch aren't you?
- i'll get my coat.
Outsider
A toasted Scottish plain loaf outsider is one of life’s greatest pleasures
…when slathered in enough butter to soak it through.
Gosh you Scotch are an odd bunch aren’t you?
– i’ll get my coat.
Clearly an outsider, Scottish people don't wear coats.
Scottish people don’t wear coats.
Jaickets ...unless it’s snowing.
Then, and only then, it’s acceptable to wear your “big coat”
I'm from Cumbria and have always called it "the crust". The only time I've heard it called "the heel" is by Scots.
My Scottish friend often used to ask "will I have the heel?". I picked it up from her and use it myself, but I wonder if she made it up as she also used to use words like "horny golloch", "forkytail", and "Shelpit bockle".
All spellings are approximate, and as to meanings ...?
Knobbler. Doesn't everyone call it that? London/SE.
Its the topper in our house, sometimes the crust.
Is that a Bristol/south west thing or have we made it up?!
Heel here (Scotland again), but when I was wee I called it the nose for some reason. Think it was just me...
“horny golloch”, “forkytail”, and “Shelpit bockle”.
The first two are earwigs
Shelpit means bitter (I think)
A bauchle is someone who is worn out or dishevelled
Heel - Aberdeenshire born and bred. Must be a Scottish thing then. Crust is the bit all around each slice. And yes to forkytail, futtret, quine, loon, lum, fair ferfochen ....
ye widny ken wit an ootsider wis
Neither did the three Scots I’m currently with, I think they are imposters.
After googling it the lad found that in some places it was called a knob end! That made for an interesting conversation.
I’m from Kent and it’s a crust or a knob, although the knob is usually on a baguette.
My wife is from Edinburgh and it’s a heel.
Crust. East Midlands/East Anglia with Scots family.
Crust - Yorkshire.
Heel, Reading
Heel (and occasionally nose) here.. Scotland again.
Heel – Aberdeenshire born and bred. Must be a Scottish thing then. Crust is the bit all around each slice. And yes to forkytail, futtret, quine, loon, lum, fair ferfochen ….
this!
The Endy Bit
in the same way Captain Kirk can be beamed from the enterprise onto the surface of a newly discovered planet.... my girlfriend can teleport far Endy Bit out of a bag of bread without disturbing any of the slices inbeteen.
When grew up in South London it was 'the knobbler'
Up here its the Heel
A toasted Scottish plain loaf outsider is one of life’s greatest pleasures
Outsider maybe but if it's from a plain loaf it's a doorstop (the other end isn't even worth naming)!
Is this another Ayrshire thing?
Crust.
But I’m a mixed breed Welsh / Hereford and Worcester.
In our house, with a bread maker doing a loaf a day, it’s the first bit in the toaster. Slathered in butter and enough jam to bring on a diabetic coma.
When I grew up it was the knob or knobby by parents.
crust, but I have heard heel as well.
Also the knob or knob end, but that is mainly (maybe exclusively) for a baguette / baton type
Leather back - although crust mostly.
Never heard it called a heel.
Outsider maybe but if it’s from a plain loaf it’s a doorstop (the other end isn’t even worth naming)!
Is this another Ayrshire thing?
Nope, Its an ootsider, disnae matter whether it's from a plain or pan loaf.
Nothing worse than opening a plain loaf, and both ootsiders are like the gable end of a hunner poun note.
50 to 1 shot or ootsider
It's just the "end bit" in our house.
Bit boring really!
Bit boring really!
I expected more given your username.
Crust here, but the Scots locally call it heel. Either is fine.
Its called the Crust or End Bit in our house.
Outsider maybe but if it’s from a plain loaf it’s a doorstop (the other end isn’t even worth naming)!
Nah! A doorstop is from an unsliced loaf when someone is so bad at cutting a slice that they end up with a wedge 5cm thick at one side and 1mm at the other, hence doorstop.
On a tin (or packet) loaf where it's broadly similar in shape to any other slice of said loaf its a crust.
On a bloomer or similar which rapidly tapers meaning a double thickness or more for a reasonable slice, it's a heel.
On a any loaf which has an irregular shape or a hard crust (like a baguette) resulting in something with either the shape or solidity of a door knob, it's a knob end.
Ender.
Inverclyde, but I've a feeling it might just my family as they have weird words for tons of things. Glug-a-lunk anyone? (a drink of milk)
Doorstep is always what my mum calls the thick end of a plain loaf. It's an outsider for sure but specifically it was a doorstop as it's the size of one (think the heavy stops as opposed to a wedge).
Inverclyde, but I’ve a feeling it might just my family as they have weird words for tons of things. Glug-a-lunk anyone? (a drink of milk)
We have folk in work fae Grenock and The Port. Can't even say Wemyss Bay right so I'm not surprised they have another language up there. One of them needed me to translate for someone from The (Garnock) Valley, I believe the issue was one over pruching before going for his scran. Funny how language still gets contained by a few hills to this day.
Heel in Norn Iron
Knobler
Both parents called it that and it stuck, they were west London born + bread (bdum-tish)
I've always just called it "the end piece", all you people calling it funny names, if you have a loaf cake are you calling the end slices crusts or heels to? seems odd
Heel. Scottish
loaf cake
What’s a loaf cake?
I can't believe I've made it to 41 without realising it is called anything else but the crust. Love this place sometimes.
RM.