four-minute friday: bread butts
April 17, 2009
Go.
I can’t stand banana butts. Or hot dog butts. And I really don’t like bread butts.
But I used to feel like I needed to be a bread butt martyr. I’d eat them, even though I hate them. Simply so someone else didn’t need to. I’m realizing that I do that with a lot of things. I’ll choose what I don’t like if I feel that decision will be better for others in some way.
But I had an epiphany about the butts: Some sacrifices just don’t need to be made.
Bread butts simply do not need to be eaten. By anyone. So I stopped taking one for the team and started giving the butts to the birds.
Everybody wins.
Done.
Your turn! Leave a four-minute comment about bread butts…
@traceepersiko says:
I love the butts!! I would have been pass to girl for the bread butts. Now for bananas you are definitely on your own.
I like big bread butts and i can not lie……
I’m with you. I’m not a bread butt fan, either. I used to be – when I was younger and thought the butt was the “good” part of the bread – after all when it comes to something like French bread, the butt has more bread. Perhaps I didn’t really think it was good, I was just selfish and wanted the “big” piece for myself. I don’t know. However – as I got older, I grew less and less attached to the butt. Then? One day? I realized – bread butts had no appeal to me whatsoever and that was the last time I ate the butt of the bread. Even if I desperately want another piece of bread and the butt is all that is left? I won’t eat it. Ever. I wonder if I would feel that way if I were starving…
i love bread butts…especially toasted with butter and either huckleberry or pineapple apricot jam! yummy!
@danielleH says:
i love it that of all topics, you chose bread butts. i dont do them either, or hot dogs, or bananas. or pizza crust.
way to not take one for the team ;)
Wow, comment #5…holy mackerel.
I am a strictly no bread butts girl. I’d rather eat an open faced pb&j then suffer the butt. And as it turns out, some people actually like the butts better (weirdos) so we can write it off as being giving!
“no really, you take the butt, I don’t mind”
YES.
@atangie says:
Go.
Bread butts have a very special place in our house. They are recycled. Yep. We all know that the basket on the top of the fridge is meant for the butts of the bread. No one likes them fresh (toasted, smeared, sandwiched or whatever. blech.) But, when those butts are all old and dried out. (Totally horrendous mental image just then. Moving right along…) Those butts then become the main ingredient for one of the most favored dishes in our house. Bread pudding! I make a great bread pudding, all gooey and smothered in caramel sauce. What is the moral to my tale? When life gives you old, dried up butts make bread pudding. Ha!
Done.
That was so much fun!
Go.
I like the butts of the bread, especially toasted with jelly and also the hot french loaves slathed in butter and all crunchy. Yum! I am the only one, however, who will eat them, thus many end up being duck food … which please my children and gives me many good photo opportunities.
No banana butts for me, however. In fact, I can’t stand to even eat banana’s that are ripe. They must be a little.green. It’s a texture thing.
Hmmm… Bread pudding sounds good … maybe I need that recipe. :)
Done!
Oh, p.s. Alece, did you get my email?
YES! I love you! haha.
but i will continue to take the butts for the team. Im one of the few who enjoys the butts and the corners or ends of just about any loaf… Cornbread, Meat Loaf, Cake, and never forget Muffin Tops!! mmmmmmm-mmmmmm! :
Go.
When I in grade school, I knew this kid who used to have his Mom cut off the crusts of his sandwish. I was actually always pretty jealous that he got to eat a sandwich without the crust. I never liked the crust.
I once knew a guy who used to feed the bread ends to birds, usually while a fresh pot of coffee was brewing that he would share with his neighbor. Well, one night, he asked the neighbor to do it. So the neighbor did it, thinking it was 5am. But it was really 2:30am. And that was just mean, man!
There was a time when I didn’t like eating the ends of a loaf of bread, but that was before I discovered starvation. I lost a lot of opinions to an empty stomach, too.
Stop.
@moweezle says:
What the heck are bread butts? The crusts?
I throw bread butts away. So, you have my full support.
I love these comments! And I think it’s hilarious that tre stole my song line from the get-go. haha! I love your win-win situation. :) Love Angie’s bread pudding solution. (yum!) I’m thinking that Nor was the ‘neighbor’ in his story. And I think in a ‘butt or no butt’ situation with you and me (were that ever in a blue moon to happen), you could definitely offer me your butt. I too like the texture. (But slightly green bananas, Debra? How could you?! I’m all for texture, but I am WAY more for flavor. Gotta eat the banana when the peel is mostly brown, but before the flesh starts browning. So sweet and yummy. MMmmmmm.)
mo – the butts are the worst part…they’re the beginning and end to a loaf. You know, soft yumminess on one side and nasty crust coverage on the other. :)
Go.
Bread Butts – by Natalie Jane Wood
Bread Butts are the most fascinating of the butts. Bread is the only butt bearing being that has two butts. TWO BUTTS! This is a very exciting thing for butt lovers everywhere. Bread butts can be used for many things: croutons, stuffing, bird feeding, bread pudding and a game called bread butt tossing.
This is a little known game that originated in the foothills of the inner palm of Michigandia. People gather their bread butts, which they have allowed to harden. Each person takes turns throwing their bread butts, and whoever throws the farthest gets to dance. People with 7 grain breads usually win. The old pros know this, while the young ones tend to throw Wonderbread. And lose. And they don’t get to dance.
They will learn in time.
Done.
You just wanted to see how many times you could type “butt” in four minutes.
So as soon as I started to read this, the one and only Shannon Wing popped into my mind. Her parents used to make a ‘special’ sandwich where the butt of the bread was turned on the inside so you couldn’t tell that you were eating the butt of the bread.
I have started to do that with the sandwich’s that the girls I nanny for eat :)
Bread butts are the best part of the whole entire loaf! Bread butts mean all over crust, and crust is goodness.
It saddens me that you hate butts…bread butts, I mean.
hehe. hehehehehehe. HA!
…
i enjoyed every second of reading these comments.
so good to get back and have a laugh “with” my friend alece right away.
*hugs*
I LOVE bread butts.
i’ve been eating them over here with crunchy peanut butter and bananas.
I’ve always loved them. when we were growing up we called them heels.
oh, and… i’m also missing the g&g chats. stupid time differences.
@hannahruthie says:
http://hannahborcherdt.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/four-minute-sunday-bread-butts/
I would just like to say how glad I am you’re back. I have really missed talking with you and all the other cool guys and gals that visit your “grit and glory” community!
@danielleH says:
I miss when G & G doesn’t come up in my Google reader.
I love you!
Wow…my family used the PG term “heel”…the heel of the loaf. Funny. I don’t like it either and have never eaten it (except in fresh bread – totally different!). But maybe, instead of throwing it away, feed it to the birds. :-)
Go.
Breads butts, huh? In our house we weren’t allowed to use the word ‘butts’ so we called them heels.
Mom thought she could cleverly disguise bread butts by turning the butt-part in and making grilled cheese and meatloaf sandwiches. (Oooo…I bet you wouldn’t even try such a thing, huh?) With the butt-part in, she could still butter and grill the soft side and no one would know if they had it until the first bite.
Everytime I got stuck with the butt, I though how cruel that was, to try and fool us like that.
To this day, I have a hard time trusting any grilled sandwich.
Done.
@mandythompson says:
Drew loves bread butts…. But he calls ‘em heels.
Either way, I’m just happy I don’t have to eat them!
I think my butt is too big and I will be starting yoga sometime soon. Maybe? What? Okay.
@cassgirl says:
The only thing that bread butts are for:
Buttering corn on the cob
and
feeding the ducks
I like
bread butts
and I cannot lie
you other martyrs can’t deny
when you open that bag
and see the brown butt crust (EW! sounds so wrong)
you know that its a must
gimme that brown butt crust!!
I’m totally lying by the way. I hate the brown butt crust.
Love you!!!!!!
@moweezle says:
I just noticed this right now…your previous post was ‘keeping it fresh’ with ‘bread butts’ coming up next. funny!!!!
@coloraturajoy says:
ha. i just love that you call them bread butts…
my husband loves that part of the loaf. i HATE it. the fact that he loves it and will eat it by choice makes my life very easy. at least when it comes to the last two slices of toast.
@atangie says:
Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce from Betty Crocker
Bread Pudding
2 cups milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, slightly beaten
6 cups dry bread cubes (8 slices)
1/2 cup raisins, if desired
Bourbon Sauce
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 tablespoons whipping cream
3 to 4 tablespoons bourbon or 2 teaspoons brandy extract
1. Heat oven to 350ºF. In 2-quart saucepan, heat milk and 1/4 cup butter over medium heat until butter is melted and milk is hot.
2. In large bowl, mix granulated sugar, cinnamon, salt and eggs with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in bread cubes and raisins. Stir in milk mixture. Pour into ungreased 8-inch square (2-quart) glass baking dish or 1 1/2-quart casserole. Place casserole in 13×9-inch pan; pour boiling water into pan until 1 inch deep.
3. Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge of baking dish comes out clean.
4. In 1-quart heavy saucepan, heat all sauce ingredients to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Serve sauce over warm bread pudding. Store in refrigerator.
source: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeid=35410
Thanks for that recipe … there are two daughters and a hubby whose tummy’s will be very happy! :)
i’ll give you my butt any day. ummmm…. wait a minute….
[that song is still in my head, by the way!]
DILY!
“i won’t eat it. ever.”
amen.
huckleberry? that’s a real thing?!
i cannot do bread pudding.
i’m a texture girl.
i hate meat loaf.
but love me some muffin tops.
things definitely change when you’re facing starvation…
some people call them the “heels”, but for some reason that’s always bothered me. so the ends of a loaf of bread have always been the butts…
i’ve seriously been singing “i love bread butts and i cannot lie…” for the past two days. it’s on loop in my brain.
and i need to say: your description of your favorite banana made me throw up in my mouth. just a little bit.
i can’t even tell you how much joy your comment brought me this morning.
i’d let you win just to see you dance.
i love you, ‘talia!
@moweezle says:
Wow! I’m from Michigan and never knew any of this….so much knowledge I’m acquiring today from this one topic. Thanks Alece!!! :)
yes!!! my mompicks gallons of them every year. she makes tons of huckleberry jam and brings us lots of jars of it when she visits. she also freezes huckelberries and when we visit her we get huckleberry pancakes for breakfast. but my all-time favorite is huckleberry cheesecake, which she makes when we visit. it is “get-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-for-a-late-night-slice” good!! huckleberries look like blueberries but
@hannahruthie says:
you’re in washington now! you have to try huckleberries! they’re so good!
sorry..wrong button…anyway they are like blueberries but not as sweet and have a more wild taste. my mouth is watering right now!!
okay, these sound yummy. i tried to find some huckleberry jam today at this little farmer’s market we were at… but no dice. maybe next time around?
@moweezle says:
thats funny! We’ve always called them crusts. Reminds me of Finding Nemo with the “he touched the butt” part….. random, I know. lol
haha. No sweet bananas for you?? Seriously? Shame. :)
I’m with Alece … squishy ripe banana’s … ick! I can’t do any squishy foods, makes me gag no matter what (pudding, raw tomatoes, oysters, even some pies) It’s kind of a sad thing, but I guess not eating pies helps my waistline. :) Gotta have my banana’s slightly green, unless I’m making banana bread and then the kinda brown kind are absolutely perfect! :)
now i’m definitely gonna be singing this for a while!
buttering corn??? what a genius idea!
yoga, eh?
i haven’t been out with Gym in far too long. and i know that when i start things back up with him… things’ll be pretty rocky for a while. SUCK!
your last sentence made me laugh out loud!
i love that you did this! thank you, michelle…
GASP! is it PG-13 to say “butt”?!
thank you, dear debra!
high-five! i loved your take on it, hannah. a lot.
i’ve missed them too…
i LOVE that part!
butts are the best?! i’m shakin’ my head at you, miss saige…
I miss you.
ah! the “special sandwich”… that’s mean!!!
how’d you know!?
i can ship some to you when my mom makes it this year, if you would like. they aren’t ready until early august, so it will be a while. i am on my last jar until then!
you, too… i’m sorry for my silence…
i’d like to be able to say i planned it that way… but i cannot! i’m unintentionally more creative than i am intentionally creative.
i’d love a taste… if you think of it in august and have enough to spare some, give me a shout out! thanks, jessica. means a lot!
I’m so glad I made you laugh out loud. I think that comment just made my day.
Hope you have a good one, Alece. Love you!
i have marked my calendar!
Cause I know you.
It is SO TOTALLY PG-13 to say butt. Actually, I don’t think I was allowed to say that word… well, I still get in trouble for saying it back home. ;-)
@atangie says:
Roo, that is because we were raised in the conservative cornfields of NEBRASKA. Our dear Alece is a New Yorker. They are a bit more, how shall I say it, edgy. Yes, edgy is non offensive. We were not allowed either. And now, my kids know they are not supposed to say it. So what do they do? They spell it! It is hilarious! Timothy says something like, “Then he fell on his bee-you-tea-tea!” at least once a day. What is the difference? Probably none. I probably should correct them. But it is just too darn cute. Darn it, I said darn. That one was a ‘cruisin for a bruisin’ word too.
sorry, jean!
so it’s only PG-13 if you say it, but it’s G if you spell it? i need to remember that trick! :)
@atangie says:
It’s even funnier when they replace the ‘naughty’ word by saying, “The B word,” butt, “The S word,” stupid, and, “The D word,” darn. :-)