My dad told me that if I ate my crusts it'd put hairs on my chest. As I am female I didn't want a hairy chest, so I never ate the crusts
A childhood belief about crusts

others believed things like this
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon
- I used to belief that the crusts on bread had more vitamins— mims
- Bread crusts make your hair go curly— bowlax
- 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
- I used to believe eating the crusts from sandwiches would make my hair curly.Anon