Eggs Up

Oops ... (heh, heh, heh :-)

Mark

I always have to give up the "nose" on baguette loaves to my wife

Jim Feldman

DAMN YOU, I WENT TO THAT LINK AND NOW I AM STUCK READING FROM THERE AND I AM ON 3968 NOW AND I HAVE THINGS I NEEDED TO DO THIS MORNING :)

That's exactly what I thought. Two end pieces without a middle is basically a bread roll. And there's nothing wrong with a good bread roll.

EwgB

Lol Elliot thinks he invented petit pain

Robin Wyatt

All geniuses are unappreciated in their time. The world isn't ready for breggs.

William Cole

I was expecting “so... you made a roll?”

TubaGinger

Given Clinton's reaction to soda bread, it wasn't very likely that he'd go for this. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3780

Mark

My cousins would sword fight with stale baguettes, they made fun thunk noises until they broke in a huge mess everywhere. lol.

English has a lot of words for them too! I've seen ‘heel’ and ‘butt’ in these comments. The one from my home region in England is ‘noggin’.

If you tested this with an actual guinea pig, would it mistake it for a pup?

Andrew

Bolivians mastered the art of Bread Eggs/Quignons and called them "Marraquetas", and thanks to its crunchyness its delicious alongside coffee and cheese.

Leugi

huh, more of jeph's autobio!

jimbo

Uh...I really like the end pieces. Pls sign me up for baguEgg.

Chris Crowther

Your wife made you add the disclaimer, didn’t she? Because basically half of France (your truly included) would be offended if you hadn’t. Quignons here are Serious Business.

Comics Ladybird

I agree with Elliot.

Nick Hodgson

Wait 'till you hit a bakery here in Germany. Your mind will be blown away by the abundance of different types of bread rolls. :D

melloncollic

eliot invented the bread roll

Steve Red

The French response to tortilla chips.

Auros Harman

Oh, I've even seen those. There was a bakery on Shattuck in Berkeley that had them sometimes, back when I lived there in like '99-'03.

Auros Harman

WANT. My spouse hates crust and I love it. When we get served bread at restaurants, we cut it in half and tear out the middle. They eat the middle, I eat the crusts.

Auros Harman

FYI, the end of a baguette, or a whole day-old baguette is a deadly weapon. I have cut myself on baguette crust, and I have a friend who straight up broke a tooth biting into a baguette.

Baguettes that are jut the end pieces do exist: https://crushmag-online.com/recipe/pain-depi/ It's called *baguette épi* or *pain épi* (cob baguette/bread)

Frédéric B.

If loads of butter was injected in the bread egg, like a donut, this could be revolutionary

I like the end pieces of bread, especially if it's fresh with plenty of butter.

Vanestus

Never have I been so offended by something I completely agree with.

I am the captian now

Isn't that basically just a roll?

emmavoid

I have one. It is the BEST.

KCkittysnores

People who like the end pieces *are* weird. To be clear: I think this is a good thing. People who aren't weird tend to be the worst. Thank you for being weird for us, Jeph. (Confession: I like the end pieces. My ex dislikes the end pieces, so that worked well. She's weird in other ways, however, so it's not like she's normal.)

Some Ed

huh, the strip number is four fours

Matti Känninen

I have indelible memories of picking up a still-warm baguette from the bakery on my walk home from work, tearing off the end, and happily eating it as I walked down the street

Magic Chopstick Games

Reminds me of those weird pans that allow you to make brownies with only crusts

Bagge

I was expecting Elliott to bring out a bready Moravian star

Jon Guyer

In Germany, there are 217 different words for the end piece of a bread, therefore you can tell where somebody is coming from by hearing them say "their" word for it :) I am a "Knust" lover.

Jan Gampe

My spouse like the end pieces. Me, not so much. We are well matched in this and many many other ways.

Hugh Eckert

Trying to cut the end piece of a baguette is what lead to me needing surgery. I despise them now

Ami

This reminds me of the Top Of The Muffin To You cafe on Seinfeld. They had to learn the hard way that you can't just make muffin tops without the stumps. You have to make the whole muffin to get a good top. And you probably have to bake a whole loaf to get good heels/butts.

James Hamilton

I would eat these until I weighed five thousand pounds.

Creepy Cat Lady

Bread egg. Bregg.

Alan Wiggs

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Oren

Rude

Chris Henry

Isn't that just a roll?

Eric Eisenhart

Heels are for applying fat (oil/butter), seasoning, and then toasting in the oven to become croutons or homemade breadcrumbs.

Jennifer Doyle

The crust is the best part of a high quality bread.

Daryl Sawyer

Abigail: Not cronchy enough.

Daryl Sawyer

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to mention Roko!

Trip Space-Parasite

Like one of those zig-zag brownie pans meant to achieve more corner squares.

Tudza

Frankly, this seems like something Roko might enjoy experimenting with.

Natalie Wagner

That was a lot of bread talk in the comments - WHEN THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!

This is a butt joke and we all know it

Joseph

and it is a HAPPY comic! They are adorable!

These sound perfect for clarified butter with garlic dipping to me... maybe toss in a smidge of rosemary, thyme or some other favorite herb?

Katrina Urmson

I cannot believe this comic does not contain a butts joke.

Timothy Roller

Heels are for SOUP.

Danya Michael

I'm one of the end piece freaks. A good bread crust is what I came for, so the end pieces are the whole POINT. (people who cut crusts off of bread; it's okay, they took care of the stone chip issue awhile back, it's now safe to eat)

Yohannon

Those are uncut croutons for my soup!

Gary Sumners

Hmmm, that could possibly work with the right condiments. Garlic butter, cheese, relish. Either cut in half and spread (or melted in) or dipped. They could good for dipping.

Thisguy

maybe with whole grain!

Adam Friedlander

Back to the drawing board, Elliot.

Will Weaver

I like the end pieces but I also like the middle pieces. Wouldn't this just be a bun of some sort though?

Nikki

I like the end pieces and I will admit to being wierd 😝

Great googlie moogly! can these two be any MORE wholesome?

Jeff Gedney

breggexit.

Sleepy John

Mmm... Butts.

Jonathan Marinaro

Bregg.

Tomix

I love eating the heel (end piece) of a loaf of bread! Multiple times I've wondered aloud to my mother-in-law (who makes bread for us) if it would be possible to make bread such that it was just all heel. I think that would basically be a bread pancake. Thank you for making this; this is wonderful! (And Clinton and Elliot are both such cute goobers.)

Craig P Steffen

I came here for baguette butts.

Giant Speck

I did not come here to be insulted!

Giant Speck

Yeah, but really really crunchy. Too crunchy. Suitable for dipping in stews but not much more.

Weird

doorbender

Team croumch forever.

Antoine Leblanc

All Heel Baguette

Agnes

But wouldn't that just be a crusty roll?

Rosilin

The ends are butter cups, and Clinton forgot the butter: Mo' butta, mo' betta!

BobC

Man, the end pieces are the best, but you need the center pieces to make the end pieces correctly.

Buck Caldwell

END PIECE SQUAD cronch

dirtknight

When I was a kid my mother would get sourdough baguettes from Safeway and I liked to eat them after they they got stale, they were nice and crunchy. Unfortunately Safeway's sourdough sucks now.

Crushogre

Isn't that just a bun?

Dan Tomalesky

I really hope they work out. They are adorable

DP23

Why is Elliot such a goober?

Joel Bateman

Flip the marketing pitch on its head: it's not "just the ends of a baguette", it's "raw croutons"

Den

End pieces are great!

Jaime Fenton

End pieces are good

Kris

CROMCH

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

Woo, happy comic number forty-four-forty-four!

Wynn Donivan

Seriously, it just needs a filling. Something creamy. And wow, this sounds bad.

Chris Mannes

So this is where Clinton gets superpowers?

Captain Button

Perhaps this was inspired by....Chaos Bread?

Michael Boettger

Ends rule.

Pete Hanson

THE END PIECES ARE THE BEST PART!

Yelling Bird

PUT AN EGG BETWEEN THE END PIECES!

Jackie Horn