Remember when you were knee high to a boggart and your mother and your grandma seemed to spend all their time trying to get you to eat the disgusting bits of food you really couldn't be bothered with?
Egg white,( I have to confess for me it was the whole egg ) pastry, anything green, anything that started life green even though it had been boiled to the colour of weathered army trousers (remember all that sloppy cabbage, sprouts that had gently boiled for at least two hours, spinach thatpaled into insignificance compared to the stuff Popeye ate, even though we only watched Popeye in black and white because colour TV hadn't been invented?
Remember the stories they used to tell?
Carrots will help you see in the dark.
Green stuff will make you into a faster runner, top speller, six foot tall by the time you are 12.
Crusts was another thing. How many of us used to balk at eating the crusts?
And what did the significant females in our lives say?
It will make your hair grow curly!
But did you want curly hair in the first place?
What happened if you had curly hair, did they tell those children it would make their hair grow straight?

Well now it turns out that eating the crusts is actually good for you, but it's got sod all to do with your tresses, whether they be straight, curly or something in between.

Apparently baking releases an antioxidant which ends up concentrated in the crust of bread. It has now been found that this particular anti-oxidant is particularly good at protecting against bowel cancer.
Wow! Who'd have thought it?

Mind you, I can't see kids being any more persuaded by this argument than they were by the curly hair thingy.

Perhaps you just have to wait until your tastebuds develop and you can really appreciate a hunk of well baked bread, crust and all.

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