What do you call?

The crust.

Heel

The end piece. Never heard anyone call it the heel until this comment section

The heel.

The unwanted

That's the heel. The other end is the toes. (I am kidding about the other end being the toes, of course they're both heels.)

The crust or the heel...

Heel.

Heel, and the best part. I love the crust on a freshly baked loaf.

Heel

the butt end or the bad end

The heel

Bread

'Heel' or in the older less enlightened days 'the Pope's nose' for unsliced bread.

The heel or the butt

Heel

UK: literally just "the end piece", sometimes "the crust/crust piece"

“The End”

Another vote for heel

From the American Heritage Dictionary: >[**heel¹**](https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=heel) (hēl) *n.* **3.** One of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread. The crust is of course the whole outer layer, not just the end piece.

I normally say the butt, or the ends. I don’t know if that’s just what we say locally (American Midwest)

Crust. I've heard "heel" and "end" as well.

Heel. Not crust because every slice has crust.

Gross

I call it the heel. My kids call it the butt.

The knobby end.

it's the heel of the loaf

Dupka

end of loaf

My dad insisted it was the heel but I've always called it the bread butt.

Heel, aka the part no one wants to eat

Buckl

I call it the end piece or the best bit

The heel, or the end formally, but usually just the butt.

Las Tapas

As a German I had flashbacks for a second

Only ever have called in the butt

in spanish we use "el culo" the butt of the bread :D

I call it the butt, I've honestly never heard it called heel before so that's very interesting to learn.

Heel or butt.

"The crust" if it's a good slice. "The scratty end" if it's not a good slice.

The back-ender

Weird end pieces

Raised NC, we call it the butt. Also I need some clarification on where it's called "the heel" cause I've never heard someone call it that, but apparently it's pretty popular

Heel tap.

The end of the bread

The end

In French, there are many words, and some of them are just local. 'Quignon' is maybe the most common, but in my region we say 'crotchon'.

Tapita

Bread 👍🏻

I call it the booty bread and it’s the only right answer I can think of

Горбушка (Ghorbushka)

UK Crust US Heel

The "butt", and occasionally the "boot" as a bastardisation of the previous term while possibly relating more closely to "heel" (which I never use).

Breadefender.

Breadbutt

The butt

El poto in spanish, so the butt in english xD

The proper term is heel, but my family calls it the butt.

Little ass

shit

In my variation of Spanish I know it as "La Suegra" that means "Mother-in-law" because nobody really like that piece of bread lol It's horrible but funny at the same time

Heel

Butt

In my family, we called a sandwich made from the heels a 'sad sandwich'.

End piece

Put it back again

the arse

Couldn't one call it 'crust'?

gross

Scherzerl, same word is also used for "sweetheart" (Austria). Unlike the ehh-I'll-skip-that-piece reception for the pictured breadloaf, a prized slice on a Bauernbrot (Austrian rye bread)

The butt

booty piece

Knob end - dunno why our family just always have

The heel

In the Midlands in the UK we call it the noggin

The butt, the end piece, or the heel will all make sense to an English speaker.

I grew up calling them "end pieces." We would also call it "the butt" or "butt bread" to be silly when we were kids. And now that I make bread, I call slices that include the end "heels" though I couldn't really say why it feels different to me (maybe because it's not pre-sliced, so they're not really 'pieces' until I cut them?) But if someone said "end piece" or "heel" about either, I'd understand them.

The butt

Never heard of it called heel before. Must be a US term? We just call it the end pieces in AUS.

The end piece. If I'm feeling silly, I call it the butt

Scottish person here, "The Outsider".

Ass

kontje

The outsider.

Loafskin

in australia we call it the crust. the same name as the harder part around a normal slice

ah ive always known that to be a knob of bread, same with the ends of baguettes

butt-bread!

I heard someone once call it the "whore slice." He said it was because everyone touches it but nobody wants it

Heel

The best part.

We call it the part that no one will eat except me

we always called it the opening slice/s. for both ends

The end piece is the only term I’ve ever heard in conversation. US English

My stepdad calls it the butt of the bread, so now I do too

That's the butt in my house.

Just call it the end piece

I didn't even think about it having a name! Hah

The ho. Everyone touches it but nobody wants it.

Outsider, heel, bread end, end of the loaf

The heel.

Ass

“End piece”. I’ve never heard it called “heel” or “butt” until right now, either. US native speaker, multi-regional

Heel. Midwest US and NE US.

Crust or end piece

The heel, the butt or the end pieces

It was always called the nobby in our house.

Culetto🇮🇹

Stop complicating things. It’s Bread

In public or to my grandmother: heel To my friends or family: butt

interesting, hah

The crust. I've never heard anyone call it anything other than that.

the hoe

Gorbushka

The business end of the bread

The crust.

As a native U.S. speaker I've never heard anyone call it the heel, just the end(s) of the loaf

I call it the butt, heel, or end piece interchangeably

The "crust" or the "end bit".

ed bread

always called it a heel. dunno if its a regional thing or not

Trash

the shitty slices that I always end up throwing away

Ender, crust or doorstep

The butt end or THE UNDESIRABLE SLICE

Butt

Корочка

The crust.

The crust on loaves like that, the heel if it's a loaf of sourdough bread

Heel

Корочка (korochka)

I just call it the end piece

The Butts

We call it the “heel” or “end slice”. It’s the favored bit in my family (on good bread, not mass-produced sliced sandwich bread).

Горбушка

Disgusting

Crust

Forgotten child

Until now, I referred to it as the "head". 😅

I call it the butt. My dad calls the end of a loaf of Italian bread "the pope's nose"

Bread

Outsider and heel both are used, most commonly outsider

I call it the crust because my mother called it the crust. In my adult life I learned that it’s also called the heel, the butt, or the end piece.

Skælk (in trøndersk, spoken in the mid part of Norway)

In Ireland, either the heel or the crust.

End piece

Worthless. Useless. Something nobody in my family eats. But its name to us is "heel." Southern U.S.

The redheaded stepchild piece

Heel

Bread

The “heel” of the loaf

we called it the Bum.

I think my mom always called it the bookend when I was a kid

On a pointier loaf, the "nose".

Crust

Either heel, butt, or end.

The crust... or the "end-piece"

I don’t call it anything, I just throw it away

From Pennsylvania, have only ever heard of it being called “the end piece”

Bad

Heel.

The ass

End

You always keep it on your loaf until it’s used down, it keeps the bread fresher & softer

Garbage

Colț (corner, but I don't call it that in english)

« The one that i don’t like », « the last one »

UK native speaker. This is called the crust. Never heard it described as ‘heel’ or ‘end piece’ and I wouldn’t know what you meant unless you explained it, but maybe that’s just a UK English thing.

That's the bread FRONT and the other side is the bread BACK.

"The end piece" Southern United States

Edge?

We always called it booty bread lol

I just call it the end piece

I call it the crust or the end bit.

[USA] * polite — the end piece * informal — the butt

Crust

Gorbushka

With a baguette, we call it the knob.

The crust

UK I call it the crust. My wife calls it the knobby end.

Butt Bread.

Bread butt lol

Omg okay so my first instinct was “the foot” hahahaha but I think somewhere my brain knew it was heel but glitched and picked something close to it instead 🍞🦶

*Chutt* I'm not sure if that's a Norfolk-ism (UK) or if my parent's misheard their parents saying *Butt*

The anus

The butt (but I think it's technically called the heel)

In my family, we used to call it “end bread”, and we used to fight over those pieces. I had no idea other people didn’t like it until we went to a fancy restaurant one day. I was about 8 years old and the waiter came to me with the bread basket and offered me to take a piece. I started reaching for the end piece and he says “that’s the heel”. I continue to reach for it and he says forcefully “that’s the heel, you don’t eat that.” I looked at my mom quizzically and she just shrugged. It was at that moment I realized that our family was doing something shameful and that we shouldn’t tell other people about it. So I grabbed another piece of bread, one of the middle slices, and tried not to think about how they were just going to waste the “heel” and throw it out. I also never told anybody else ever again that I enjoyed eating the end piece.

I've always referred to it as just 'the end piece'

In Spain I call it "t*ta" (which would be translated as t*t🍈)

Knust

I don’t know what it’s actually called, but I learnt it as the “butt” of the bread

My partner and I have always called it "the hoof". It's what my family always called it too.

UK: The crust.

End piece

I always just called it the end piece.

Heel

In Dutch: Het kontje Aka little booty

The ass 🗿

the crust, or crust slice

Przylepka

The end?

Het kontje (the butt)

The End or a Dog Treat

The butt.

The Bunkie

Either the butt, the heel, or simply the end piece. I've heard them all

My grandma always called it the Shontoe (Shawn-toe?) no clue why, but I now call it that and nobody else I have ever met has any clue what I’m talking about.

I love how all of those people in the house will always speak up, and claim how they don't mind eating the heel piece yet every time I go to get bread the last piece(s) left are the heels... Like hold on, wait a minute, where are all of you well rounded thankful individuals at now?...

there is no commonly used word to refer to this

The Noggin

That’s the butt

Knobby end - in some UK dialects

The butt

That's the crust.

Booty Bread

My family calls it the royal piece

Endpiece, bread butt, or the “lid”

australian: the crust

In our language it is called 'ritka', it literally means 'booty'

English is easy, check out German: [https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/10\_03h.jpg](https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/10_03h.jpg)

I just call it "buli" which means butt/rear end

Future breadcrumbs

It’s the crust (piece). I have never heard anyone ever call it the heel, though that may be because I rarely talk about bread outside of my county

I’ve always just said “the end piece”.

caboose WOO WOOOOOOOOOOO

End bit

I’m having a fever dream. I’ve always heard that been called the elbow.

The heel or the butt

Useless

I've never heard anyone call it the heel. What a strange world lol. Id call it the butt of the bread, or the end. Pacific Northwest

"The Knob End" but my family is weird and British

In Southern California in the US, it’s the heel. Never heard any other term till now. That tells me what you call that slice of bread is a regional thing.

The end peice or the heel. The heel I would say for bread with a hard crust, the end peice for soft crust

The end piece

The mother in law, because no one wants it. I don’t know where I heard that. Spain, I think.

Disappointment

The hoe. Everybody touches it, but nobody wants it.

It is called "da crust"

Crust

The end(s)

First of all, that’s toast, not bread.

I’ve always called it the butt of the bread

Worthless

My family has always called it the crust

growing up my Mom call them the butts of the bread. I still call them the butts

The slut. Everyone touches it but no one really wants it.

Never heard it called the Crust, Heel or anything else it these comments. US native here and I call it "The end piece"

Rind was the first thing that came to mind

The butt of the loaf

Skalken in norwegian.

Yorkshire, UK here - I call it the crust!

In norwegian we have a word for just this exact thing: "Skalk". The word can be used informally for certain other things with two ends that aren't really good for anything, but the exact meaning is the two end pieces of a bread.

My family calls it the nub

The last five words in the question

I’ve always called it the toe, had no idea this is apparently very uncommon lol. Northern california for reference

Slice

Butt, heel, or end

Butt

The ass

Trash

Where I’m from (East Midlands, England) it is ‘the knobby bit’

Serious answer: the heel Non-serious answer: the part that nobody eats until I use it to make meatloaf.

Bunda do pão (bread ass)

Its the heel and it sucks

Heel

heel. the sandwich you make with the two ends is called a heel meal.

Bread butt

The heel

I’ve always called it the end slice 🤷‍♀️

We call it "горбушка", It tastes even better if it's crispy and fresh😍😋😋😋

the slut, because everyone touches it but nobody wants it.

the end of the bread

Buttedgeendheel.

End piece (US)

Crust

Once had a guy (native English speaker like me) who was CONVINCED it was called the "cuppy." Why, I have no clue! Everyone else agreed "cuppy" was not a word. The two most common words for it are the "heel" of the bread or the "end" of the bread, but apparently there are a LOT of other valid terms as well and it depends on region. American English: 🇺🇸 "Heel" "Butt" "End" English english: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 "Knobby" "Doorstop" Universal English: 🌍 "End-piece"

I call them the end pieces

I’m American (West coast) I call it the butt or the heel.

Northeast Corridor US: heel or butt. Would not describe it as “crust” because that’s how we refer to the entire outer rind, not the ends. There might be other regional differences, and our UK and Aussie friends have their own thing going on.

Butt

I'm from London, UK, and call it "the endy bit".

Le cul du pain

Bread butt

Bread back

The end piece

the bad piece

Maybe my household was childish but we called it “the butt piece”. Using both ends on one sandwich would make it a double butt sandwich.

Trash. I don't actually know what it's called, because I usually just throw it away

I call it *bread*

In Dutch, it’s often the “kontje”. The little ass. That’s not an answer to the English part of the question, obvi, but you’ve already had that by now.

Its referred to as the "butt of the loaf" or sometimes descriptively the "end piece"

West of Scotland - "Outsider" 

bread butt

This comment is unfit for this sub because it doesn't explain. As a native English speaker, I have never encountered this dilemma before. I am almost 30 years old.

End slice

Native USAmerican here, but from a culture who doesn't really eat bread a lot... I'd simply call it the end piece as well, or something similar. "The ends of a loaf [of bread]" for example

Br-end.

End piece.. "Bird Feed"

Crusty bit

The end piece

Ah, very cool tune, that one; wasn’t too fond of “Bread”

That is the heel.

My favorite. Or the butt

d

It’s called the heel.

Trash

In Scotland it's known as "the outsider"

I just call it "the end peice", but I have heard "heel" used but I think that term is on the way out

We call it the Bilbo, because it lives in Bag-End. But otherwise, "the crust piece" or whatever our kids decided for the day.

thank you guys for restoring my sanity my girlfriend calls this the "end-piece" and says I'm weird for calling it the heel

in Spanish it’s called the ass.

Bum

Le cul

In Spanish (at least in Argentina) we call it "tapa" ("lid.") For example: "No te comas solo esa parte; cométe la tapa también" -> "Don't just eat that part; eat the lid too."

The crust

Skalken (I’m Swedish)

The butt pieces!!

Dad's sandwich

Heel.

The best slice. Crispier when toasted, not as boring as inner slices. Since I was a kid.

Butt 😂

It’s the Butt and my husband and I each get one piece of butt since we fight over it!

The heel. A double heel butter and vintage cheddar sandwich from a well fired loaf is one of my favourite comfort foods.

At the lake, we called it fish food

“Korochka”

booty

I call it the butt

The butt.

hoe

Nobbies

Butt

I call it the butt bread

A butt

For me and my house we call it “the butt”

The butt

The Ass or Butt Or "end" around my parents

I call them the butts :/

Simply put it’s called the end piece

Gorbuska blyat

Folks at my old job (hospital kitchen) would call it a bread-butt.

The butt bread

Culetto ( the butt). I'm Italian

The butt.

the end piece

I just call it the ends lol

Butt

I call it the butt💀💀💀

The crust piece Also all of the outside is the crust. On a slice of we say the crusts. As in ‘my son always wants the crusts cut of his sandwich’

The Butt. Touch the butt

The best part 😋now that I’m grown I realize it tastes better than the regular slices

the end piece

I call it the crust (Midlands, England)

Butt, foot, or heel.

Ughh the end piece???

Il culo(Italian)= the but

I just call them the end pieces

Butt

My parents told us kids it helped us learn to whistle. We fought over it

heel

My eleven year old calls it "the bum".

Butt

just "The End"

Food. My pet peeve is people who choose not to eat it just because. I paid for it, I'm gonna eat it.

The crust, but that's wrong because the whole outside is the crust. I think the best word is heel (but I don't use that)

The slut. Everybody touches nobody wants.

Butt

The butt

Butt

Usually the "crust," which doesn't make much sense, but that's what I learned in the midwest USA. Now I try to make myself say "heel." Which also is illogical as hell, but at least it's not the term for the outer layer of the entire damn loaf of bread.

The ho piece

Both a butt and a heel

In the TV show Succession, the English mother calls the ends "nobbys" lol

The butt of the bread

We call it sercli in Hungary (pronounced share-tslee)

The end peice (I'm from nj)

Kontje

The hoe. Everyone touches it, but no one wants it

My family just calls it the "end piece." I do recognize "heel" as a technical term for it, but I would never actually say that myself, and I don't think I've heard my family and friends say it either.

the end piece (US East Coast but raised by parents from the Southern US)

The people I’m around call it the end bread. I’ve also heard it called the butt, however, I’ve never heard it called the heel (not saying people don’t call it that. I just thought it was interesting)

Bread-end..

We used to call it the "Daddy Piece" -- it was my dad's 'favorite' piece, so as little kids my brother and I always wanted to get it instead. It was not his favorite piece. We were fooled. He pretended to like it so we would want it and he wouldn't get stuck with it ! I've never learned the real name, but in public I call it the "end piece"

I've always called it the butt

My mother grew up during the Great Depression. She hated the heels. Her mom, (my grandmother) told her that if she ate the heels, it would make her hair curly, just like Shirley Temple's hair. Mom desperately wanted curly hair, so she ate the heels.

The end

The whore cuz everyone passes it about but no one really wants it.

Stoppers

Butt is what I'd consider to be a realer name but I just call them the ends

I say 'End loaf'

A lot of people call it the heel but there could be regional difference - also could be the butt or end piece. I think most people say heel

the crust,hahahhahha

The outsider ( I live in Britain, we are a divisive bunch )

US: the end piece

The end piece of bread

Growing up in New England, we always called it the “heel”.

American: Heel

The weird end piece

Butt

The elbow

I call it the heel or end, my bf calls it the ankle

the slut piece, everyone touches it but nobody wants it unless there's nothing better

In Dutch, we call it the ‘kapje’.

Heel

In my family, we just call it “the end.”

“Bread back”

Back n my day we called it the butt... I loved eating the butt

The heel is the best piece. Densest

That's the hoe bread...everyone touches it, and no one wants to eat it.

Either the end slice or the butt

isnt it just the crust slice

i grew up calling it the cob and now i feel crazy

Tapa (spanish)

The best part of the loaf, the heel.

the butt

the butt

Ass

The crust. 

End piece or heel

The heel.

End, end piece, or crust piece

The heel

Friend Zoned.

the Butt piece.

the end

They're all slices to me

Half of a dad sandwich. (Meaning the kids don’t want it, So to avoid being wasteful, the dad ends up with two heels for his sandwich bread)

The crust.

The butt lol

The worst.

lo-fi