"The skin is the best part!"

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As a kid, my grandparents would always tell me these random things when I was eating, to make me eat things I didn't like as much. When I'd eat a baked potato, they'd always tell me "The skin is the best part!" and try to feed it to me. When I'd eat a steak and trim the fat off, they'd tell me "The fat is the best part!" and try to feed it to me. When I'd eat pizza, I'd eat the crust last--and to try to stop me from doing that, they'd always say "The crust is the best part!"

So, what other absurd or random "words of wisdom" have your old folks told you over the years? Or am I the only one who'd hear stuff like that?

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

The skin is the best part... of fried chicken! Forget Pork Rinds, I'm gonna start selling Fried Chicken Rinds!

[Jason Todd Grisham]

I should eat more potatoes, they grow hair on my chest.

I should eat more meat, they grow hair on my chest.

Basically anything I didn't want to eat at the moment, they told me I should eat it because it will grow hair on my chest.

[CM Dazz]

Spinach will give you Popeye muscles. I'll never know, cuz I won't eat that s***.

[Bo Rida]

Your grandparents were wise people, the crust (pizza/bread) and skin (potato/chicken) are usually the best part, I'm not keen on steak fat though, pork fat tastes OK but I don't eat it anymore.

Mine aren't so clever, they think that eating the crusts would make my hair curly which was stupid as it was curly already.

[Toom E. Guci]

Mmmm....potato skins.

[Alucard]

Apr 8, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Your grandparents were wise people, the crust (pizza/bread) and skin (potato/chicken) are usually the best part, I'm not keen on steak fat though, pork fat tastes OK but I don't eat it anymore.

Mine aren't so clever, they think that eating the crusts would make my hair curly which was stupid as it was curly already.

They should've told you it would make it straight.

I know I'd have eaten the hell out of whatever if I was told that.

[Sajoa Moe]

[King Boo]

I thought this was gonna be about pudding, which, yes, the skin is the best part of pudding.

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Apr 8, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Your grandparents were wise people, the crust (pizza/bread) and skin (potato/chicken) are usually the best part, I'm not keen on steak fat though, pork fat tastes OK but I don't eat it anymore.

Mine aren't so clever, they think that eating the crusts would make my hair curly which was stupid as it was curly already.

While I think the skin on a potato is good nowadays, I still think the crust is the worst part of the pizza (which is basically like saying sapphire is less valuable than gold). Not that I don't eat the crust, but I've always found the part with the cheese and tomato (and potential toppings) was better.

But if the crust is so wonderful, then I'll just have a breadstick then.

[Sajoa Moe]

Apr 8, 2009 13:46:27 GMT -5 @mightykretzler said:

Apr 8, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Your grandparents were wise people, the crust (pizza/bread) and skin (potato/chicken) are usually the best part, I'm not keen on steak fat though, pork fat tastes OK but I don't eat it anymore.

Mine aren't so clever, they think that eating the crusts would make my hair curly which was stupid as it was curly already.

While I think the skin on a potato is good nowadays, I still think the crust is the worst part of the pizza (which is basically like saying sapphire is less valuable than gold). Not that I don't eat the crust, but I've always found the part with the cheese and tomato (and potential toppings) was better.

But if the crust is so wonderful, then I'll just have a breadstick then.

That's why they invented Stuffed Crust.

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Apr 8, 2009 13:48:37 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

Apr 8, 2009 13:46:27 GMT -5 @mightykretzler said:

While I think the skin on a potato is good nowadays, I still think the crust is the worst part of the pizza (which is basically like saying sapphire is less valuable than gold). Not that I don't eat the crust, but I've always found the part with the cheese and tomato (and potential toppings) was better.

But if the crust is so wonderful, then I'll just have a breadstick then.

That's why they invented Stuffed Crust.

Only place around here that sells edible stuffed crust is Pizza Hut, and they're brutally overpriced (and, well, not the best).

If I go to the place on the outskirts of the city here that's run by a bunch of Italians, I can get a huge, fresh made pizza for ten bucks, and it's probably the best pizza I've ever tasted. So, even though they don't have stuffed crust, I'd still rather go there.

[@TenaciousBe]

Potato skin IS the best part! Are you nuts? Chicken skin is hit-or-miss depending on how it's cooked though.

[Claw died]

Apr 8, 2009 12:32:43 GMT -5 Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action said:

The skin is the best part... of fried chicken! Forget Pork Rinds, I'm gonna start selling Fried Chicken Rinds!

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Apr 8, 2009 13:26:13 GMT -5 King Boo said:

I thought this was gonna be about pudding, which, yes, the skin is the best part of pudding.

A-freaking-men to that.

[Space City's Own]

I don't know about that, but whenever we went out to eat and I asked what restaurant we were going to, my step-dad would, without fail, respond with "up a pig's ass to get a bucket of lard."

[Spyke the Pacers Fan]

Apr 8, 2009 17:31:35 GMT -5 Space City's Own said:

I don't know about that, but whenever we went out to eat and I asked what restaurant we were going to, my step-dad would, without fail, respond with "up a pig's ass to get a bucket of lard."

My dad would do that too. He would always mention either "a fresh piece of road kill he saw earlier" or "7-11 to get a couple of hot dogs."

He still does that on occasion. Never fails to make me laugh.

Oh, and really the only "advice" my grandparents ever game me, was when I was about 7 or 8 and the batteries on my Game Boy were dying. My grandpa tells me to stick the batteries in the freezer to recharge them. Stuck 'em in there for a few hours. Then overnight. Then for about 2 days. My grandma just ended up buying me a new pack of batteries just to get them out of the freezer.

[Long A, Short A]

Apr 8, 2009 12:47:49 GMT -5 Alucard said:

Apr 8, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Your grandparents were wise people, the crust (pizza/bread) and skin (potato/chicken) are usually the best part, I'm not keen on steak fat though, pork fat tastes OK but I don't eat it anymore.

Mine aren't so clever, they think that eating the crusts would make my hair curly which was stupid as it was curly already.

They should've told you it would make it straight.

I know I'd have eaten the hell out of whatever if I was told that.

Thanks you Void, my bojie ass aunt said eating broccoli would make my hair curly. I haven't had an once of it for twenty years and I still have to use a flat iron.

My mom said the brown soft spots on apples and bananas were the best part. Cue Edge