I make all my own bread, it’s something I love doing, I find it cathartic, I also love the challenge with sourdough as unlike the ordinary brown loaves with sourdough you never quite know how it’s going to turn out!
However, it really annoys me when people leave their crusts, particularly adults!
I must have eaten an awful lot of crusts! It’s why I keep my hair very short otherwise the curls ping out all over the place! I’m another who can’t eat sourdough crust. Too much like hard work. Any other crusts - and nice fresh crusty French bread - are ok.
My friend always pulls all the doughy bread out and leaves it on his plate ,he butters the crusty bits for eating.He's been doing that for the 40 odd years we've known him .He and his family ran the best restaurant I have ever eaten in and I used to wonder what people thought about him not actually eating his own home made breads .
The crusts on "Chorley Wood process" bread is horrible, like tasteless leather. I suppose most people are accustomed to that and never get real home-baked bread. The first crust of that is delicious with lots of butter and marmalade - crisp light crust and airy crumb. Yumm! By the time you reach the end crust it isn't so crisp, but still better than the steam-baked commercial stuff.
I had really curly hair and wouldn’t eat crusts because I was told the crusts make hair curlier. I’m wiser with age now home made bread is the best and I do eat the crusts with lots of butter.
Another straight-haired crust eater here. I like the crust on sourdough toast, but I have to cut it up, rather than bite it for reasons mentioned by other posters. Like Bluebell, I am disappointed by Asda’s new version of tiger bread.
Dentists have suggested that more and more children need to have teeth removed because their jaws are too small to accomodate all of them because we no longer eat really chewy food, which strengthens the jaw muscles and encourages bone growth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15823276
I was always expected to eat my crusts, in the days when you went to the local bakery for always crusty bread.
However, my hair is dead straight and I have had six teeth removed to alleviate teeth crowding in my jaw.
I make wheaten soda bread a couple of times a week. I cover it with a tea towel when cooling and it prevents the crust becoming too hard. Nicely crusty but not sharp.
I love the crust on bread. Always have. But occasionally I find, particularly with sourdough, the crust is so sharp it cuts my mouth. If that happens I leave the crust. I don't think you are unreasonable, I feel the same when I see people leaving perfectly edible crusts.