I used to call the crust of bread "the bone" and I would tell my Mom "Take the bone off my bread" or if she didn't and I had to I'd set it on my plate and say "I don't want the bone"
A childhood belief about crusts

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I used to believe that my leg has only one bone Anon
- I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- i used to believe that the rag and bone man would come and take me away if i wasn't well behaved— ambrosez
- when you sit by a fire it can dry up you bone marrow— debbie