| Author | Message | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3209 Registered: 1-2007 |
Good morning puzzlers She found it strange that I ate the protection. Please explain this puzzle statement | ||
| Redwine (Redwine)
New member Username: Redwine Post Number: 186 Registered: 1-2011 |
I= you, Peter365? She= H? A? F? Is her profession relevant? Is time relevant? Is location? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3211 Registered: 1-2007 |
I = you, Peter365? Yes She= H? A? F? Human Female Child/teen Is her profession relevant? No see above Is time relevant? No Is location? No | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1803 Registered: 11-2003 |
Did you actually eat something? Physically chewing with your teeth and swallowing it? Was protection covering something edible? Was the protection itself also edible? and she just didn't know that? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11078 Registered: 4-2010 |
"Protection" - some part of a food? A wrapper? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3213 Registered: 1-2007 |
Did you actually eat something? Yes Physically chewing with your teeth and swallowing it? Indeed Was protection covering something edible? Yes Was the protection itself also edible? Yes good question and she just didn't know that? Yes this is going to go quickly "Protection" - some part of a food? Yes A wrapper? No | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1806 Registered: 11-2003 |
Were you eating a fruit? And she expected you to peel it first? If so, apple? pear? kiwi? other? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11092 Registered: 4-2010 |
Adding to the list of fruits - apple? Potato? Lime? Lemon? Orange? Grapefruit? Grape? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3214 Registered: 1-2007 |
Were you eating a fruit? And she expected you to peel it first? If so, apple? pear? kiwi? other? no to all | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3215 Registered: 1-2007 |
Adding to the list of fruits - apple? Potato? Lime? Lemon? Orange? Grapefruit? Grape? Adding to list of no's I'm afraid. | ||
| Redwine (Redwine)
New member Username: Redwine Post Number: 191 Registered: 1-2011 |
Were you eating a vegetable? Was the protection used as something usually not edible, but in this case made from edible material (like rice paper instead of normal paper)? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3217 Registered: 1-2007 |
Were you eating a vegetable? No Was the protection used as something usually not edible, but in this case made from edible material (like rice paper instead of normal paper)? no nothing like that. It was a perfectly edible item | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11099 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the food item a candy? Dessert? Bread? Pasta? Dairy? Meat? Fish? *tries to remember the food groups from 2nd grade* Poultry? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3220 Registered: 1-2007 |
Was the food item a candy? Dessert? Bread? This Pasta? Dairy? Meat? Fish? *tries to remember the food groups from 2nd grade* Poultry? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 379 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did she think you had to cut off the crust first? | ||
| Redwine (Redwine)
New member Username: Redwine Post Number: 195 Registered: 1-2011 |
Just to clarify: bread is what the word "protection" refers to? Or bread is the edible item inside protection? Was it the whole bread or bread as a part of the other dish? Sandwiches relevant? The fact that soup is sometimes served in the loaf of bread relevant? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3221 Registered: 1-2007 |
Did she think you had to cut off the crust first? No but very much in the right ballpark Just to clarify: bread is what the word "protection" refers to? Yes...but Or bread is the edible item inside protection? Yes it's both things which is all you really need to solve Was it the whole bread or bread as a part of the other dish? Well I was making a sandwich but not really relevant Sandwiches relevant? See above The fact that soup is sometimes served in the loaf of bread relevant? No Next post will spoyle I fancy | ||
| Redwine (Redwine)
New member Username: Redwine Post Number: 197 Registered: 1-2011 |
Did the young lady have a habit of eating only the inside, soft part of bread? I know some parents prepare it like this for the children... | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3222 Registered: 1-2007 |
Did the young lady have a habit of eating only the inside, soft part of bread? I know some parents prepare it like this for the children...Sort of along the right lines but there's more to this than not eating the crusts | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11101 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the "protection" the crust? Did she always cut the crust off bread before eating it? And dispose of the crust? Or feed it to the birds (or other animals)? | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 561 Registered: 2-2009 |
Is the heel of the loaf relevant? as it's usually used to protect the middle slices from drying out? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 4500 Registered: 5-2003 |
Was the crust burnt (perhaps it was a toasted sandwich)? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3225 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is the "protection" the crust? Did she always cut the crust off bread before eating it? And dispose of the crust? Or feed it to the birds (or other animals)? No to all Is the heel of the loaf relevant? Yes as it's usually used to protect the middle slices from drying out? Yes but I had never heard this put like this before Was the crust burnt (perhaps it was a toasted sandwich)? No That'll do ******************SPOILER******************* Kalira's post has basically solved and put me in a bit of a spot. My daughter's classmate was having tea in our house over the Christmas period. I love the heel of the loaf and I was making a sandwich with both heels (I'm the only person in my house that eat's them). The classmate exclaimed in a shocked voice "Why are you eating the bread protector" . This struck my family and I as hilarious as we'd never heard the heel so described. What worries me is that Kalira has put forward the same theory that a heel is not for eating but merely to keep the slices fresh. Please tell me I haven't been eating a scrund for nigh on 40 years. Actually my favourite brand of sliced bread have started including a bread sliced shape of card paper which is definitely intended as a "bread protector" and yet these loaves still have two heels. All opinions on this matter of life and death topic are welcome Cheers | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2290 Registered: 7-2009 |
I like eating the heel, too. Even if they're merely meant as bread protectors, I can't imagine there's anything wrong with eating them. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11178 Registered: 4-2010 |
I eat the heel too, but I always eat both heels together, usually as toast or a sandwich. Or a toasted sandwich. No scrund this time! | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 1225 Registered: 9-2009 |
I also like the heels. Around here they are called what in English can be translated as "corners". There's also a rather popular saying (of unknown origin) that the people who like to eat them will get along very well with their mother-in-law. I can testify from experience that heels (aka "corners") are good and also that the saying's truthfulness is doubtful :-) Nice puzzle, Peter. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 660 Registered: 9-2010 |
You mean the ends? Or is this some slang I don't know. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1445 Registered: 6-2008 |
I think so, Mr. Coke. I didn't know some people called them "heels" either. As a kid, I always preferred the slices in the middle, but now I don't care. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 421 Registered: 12-2010 |
I have never heard of using the heels as "bread protectors". Amazing. We call them "Knützchen", which is probably the most German looking word I've ever seen. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2773 Registered: 9-2010 |
It's always been referred to as the "heels" or the "ends" in my house, and I've never liked them. I know they keep the bread inside from drying out a bit, but I never consciously thought of them as "bread protectors". What an amazing excuse for why I shouldn't eat them! *grin* Long live the bread protectors! Well, not live...just not get eaten :-D By me, anyway. | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 570 Registered: 2-2009 |
Like Kaylee, I don't really think of them as "bread protectors" consciously, but in my house (and many of my friends'), you used them to keep the middle slices from drying out, then ate them as the last two slices of bread. This usually helped because when the slicer thingie cuts the bread, the heels/ends are generally not as thick as the other slices, so they weren't as "good" as the middle, breadier slices (in our childhood minds). Plus, they were already crusty, so the crust end of the heel doesn't dry out as much as a bready side of a middle slice would. So we ate them, just after the rest of the loaf. Now what I want to know is, who are all these people who freeze their loaves of bread? What's up with that?? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2779 Registered: 9-2010 |
I don't know what's up with it, but my mom does it, for some reason. :-( That makes me forget the bread exists. *keeps my raisin bread in the refrigerator* | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 571 Registered: 2-2009 |
Also, re: the card paper "bread protector," I find myself reacting badly to that... while I can be pretty sure that basically nobody has touched/manhandled the bread since it was cut, I don't know where that card paper (is that like what west-of-the-ponders call cardstock? or cardboard?) has been. I think I'd be weirded out by whatever germs might be on it, while the bread loaf itself is more of a closed system, germwise. (Apparently I put way too much thought into that.) | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11272 Registered: 4-2010 |
My mom freezes loaves of bread as well. I don't get it either. | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2297 Registered: 7-2009 |
I call them both "heels," but my sister has gotten into the strange habit of calling the first one (the one at the open end of the bag) the "heel" but the second one the "butt." I have no idea where she picked that habit up from, because I've never heard another person say it, and I think it's hilarious that she distinguishes between the two, because they're identical. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2825 Registered: 9-2010 |
Ask her, Noel. I'm extremely curious now. *grin* | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4908 Registered: 12-2000 |
We called them crusts - I know that's the bit around each other slice, but it's part of the same whole surround. I have curly hair because I ate mine. I do keep the crust over the other slices to keep them fresher nowadays, but I also tie the bag with those clips which also helps. If we were cutting an unsliced loaf, the end bit would actually be the biggest and then that would be lathered with butter. Without Lipitor I would have much higher cholesterol. I did a puzzle once about health problems in later life due to teeth marks. i.e. I always liked my butter thick enough to see teeth marks in it. | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3229 Registered: 1-2007 |
Wow this silly puzzle certainly prompted a lot of debate. My Mother always said that eating the heel would make my hair curly and unfortunately she was right. If I let my hair grow for too long it goes horribly kinky so I have it 2 bladed every 4 weeks. It does make me look a bit like one of "America's most wanted" but preferable to curly hair in my opinion especially now that I'm going grey. My wife is one of those people who puts loaves of bread in the freezer much to my bemusement. I simply cannot see the logic in doing this. I mean buy a fresh loaf every day I say. With regard to teeth marks in butter , my Granny used to give us a slice of home made soda bread with about an inch thick of butter on it and then just to make it completely unhealthy dipped it in a bowl of sugar. Not good for the teeth but completely yummy. Thanks for all your comments, they certainly gave me a chuckle. | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 704 Registered: 9-2008 |
Peter, I had to google "soda bread" - but that sounds yummy! |
