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Crust with Ashley Roboto

SciShow Tangents

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What Is a Crust?

A crust is anything that hides a little surprise inside. Crust comes from the root word, creus, k-r-u-s, which means like a crust of ice,. But that root word turned into the Latin crusta, which means any sort of shell or rind or bark or crust to refer to like the hard outer part of bread. Crescents are dry and flaky and deposited some like a hard outer layer on something. There's also cryptoviotic crusts.

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