What do you call the first and last slices of a loaf of bread?

[muon2]

I grew up calling them heels. Such bread was almost always a traditional presliced sandwich loaf in a plastic bag and the heels were the kinds of pieces angus describes. It's been a very long time since I've bought that kind of loaf, and when I last did it was for cooking as part of another dish, and I probably thought of those slices that were mostly crust as heels.

For many years our dinner bread has been an unsliced loaf, baguette, or round, and if I have my way it has a hearty crust. The first slice is my favorite one as the crust is both tasty and makes a good support for mopping up savory sauces with the bread. However with unsliced bread I don't recall using heel to describe the first piece, it's usually the end or the first slice.