What is a Crust?

 “I’ve seen someone take the crust off an uncrustable.”

A simple sentence that makes my brain spiral.

But it’s an uncrustable?

Therefore there should be no crust?

Do they mean the pinched ends?

But is that a crust?

Do you call the pinched ends of a dumpling a crust?

It’s even in the name, uncrustable.

There should be no crust.

Words have come together in a sentence that doesn’t make sense.

An oxymoron.

A paradox.

An improbable possibility.

What is a crust?

We call the top-most layer of Earth a crust.

Bread crust.

But what else is crust?

What is crusty?

Crusty is also the name of youtuber Safiya Nygaard’s cat.

I’m tired.

- The Friendly Ghost