We're so rich and spoiled.... that we throw away this piece of bread. Every. Single. Time.

Ok, so here's the deal... yes, we throw this piece of bread away. The heel, we call it, at least in the U.S., I'm not sure, but it seems like the other places I've visited, they call it that, too.

But here's the problem - this piece of bread, at least in my area of the country, and with the regular, most popular brand of plain white bread here, is usually sliced very VERY thin, often has a hole in the middle because of the shape of the bread loaf, and is almost always about 20% smaller than the next piece in the loaf.
So. You try to toast it? It is so thin it curls up in the toaster, and can even get stuck. It's so thin it gets super dried out when toasting and practically falls apart like a super weak cracker if you try to spread butter, jelly or anything else on it. Also, because it is so thin, and smaller than other pieces of the loaf, if you try to make a sandwich with it, it is not only so much thinner than the other side, it is actually smaller (in diameter) than the other side and your ham, cheese, bologna or whatever is sticking out on that side, but not the other. It's just all lopsided. It's annoying.

Now, I remember growing up, we ate the heel. We were pretty poor, I was much poorer than all of my friends, most of the people in school. But, I also remember that the heel WASN'T that super thin and super small piece, either! It was cut most of the time just about the same thickness as the other pieces and I actually preferred the heel, personally.

But now, if people hear we are throwing away 2 pieces from every loaf of bread, they think we are spoiled, entitled, wasteful Americans. Yes, probably. But my point is that the company has started rearranging the slicing of the bread to slice off the heel as a smaller and thinner piece, ostensibly "disposable". That is what I think, anyways. And thus, when we throw away those two scrawny pieces (one from each each), the two together don't even add up to what a single, normal sized and normal thickness piece of bread would be.

But I still feel guilty. lol.