Should You Serve Bread With or Without the Crust?

Name: Should You Serve Bread With or Without the Crust?
Uploaded: 2026-05-21T05:25:14+00:00
Duration: 1 min 54 s
Channel: Fatherly
Description: The speaker passionately argues against cutting the crusts off bread for children, believing it promotes wastefulness and a lack of appreciation for life's

Fatherly · 1m · transcribed May 2026

Transcript

0:00 I'm a man of many and popular opinions especially my own home one of the most unpopular is you must serve bread with the crust on now I have two sons they are four and seven and they hate crust and my wife god bless her neatly cuts the crusts off their bread whether it comes in just toast form or sandwich form and this drives me crazy and it also strikes me as morally wrong why number one one hundred thirty three

0:29 billion pounds of food is wasted a year by pre cutting the crusts off the bread you're teaching your children that it's ok to waste food and they don't even have to see the waste now I'm not forcing my kids to eat the crust but I want them to be aware that if they're not eating it it will be wasted - they hate the crust I get it but life is both interior loaf and crust that's the way

0:53 it is you can't live your life without the crust it's the same dough by cutting off the crusts what you're saying is you can have the sweet parts of life without the more challenging parts of life and that is not a lesson that I want to impart to my children I'm trying to make kids who understand the totality of the lived experience as a human being so I might endure the yelling protestations of my children when they're served their

1:19 sandwiches with crusts where they're served their toast with crusts in the morning but I think it's worth it and I think any parent who cuts the crusts off before giving it to their child is doing their children and the world a grave disservice so what kind of parent are you do you cut the crusts off the bread before you serve it to your children or do you leave it on let us know you

1:52 you

Summary

The speaker passionately argues against cutting the crusts off bread for children, believing it promotes wastefulness and a lack of appreciation for life's challenges. He emphasizes the importance of teaching kids to embrace both the enjoyable and difficult aspects of life, using bread crusts as a metaphor for this balance.

- Cutting crusts off bread contributes to food waste, with 133 billion pounds wasted annually.
- The speaker believes that children should learn to appreciate all parts of food, including the crust.
- He argues that avoiding crusts teaches kids that they can skip difficult parts of life.
- The speaker wants his children to understand the "totality of the lived experience."
- He is willing to endure his children's protests to instill these values.
- The discussion invites parents to reflect on their own choices regarding food preparation for their children.