If you didn't eat the crust on your bread "Mr Crust" would stand at the foot of you bed and haunt you at night. Another tid bit from my Mother's childhood, past on through the years.
A childhood belief about crusts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- If you ate the bread crust you would be able to whistle.Anon
- I used to think that crust was a special coating put on the bread— Hayley
- I used to believe that the crust and the bread were two seperate things.— Kevin
- My mom used to tell me that bread crust made you whistle just so i would eat it.— emily
- We were told that the bread crust is more healthy than the centre.— Arnon