My dad used to tell me that I had to eat the crusts on bread. When I asked why he would explain to me that eating the crust would put "hair on your chest".
A childhood belief about crusts

others believed things like this
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- Bread crusts make your hair go curly— bowlax
- i used to think that bread crust would make my hair curlyAnon
- i used to believe that if u eat the crust on bread that ur hair would become curly...wow i was stupid :)— ~philbert~
- i used to believe if i ate the crust of bread it would make my hair curly— kate
- i used to brlieve that if you ate bread crusts your hair would go very curl and i did untill i was about 13— BubZ