This crust is the most popular part of the marraqueta. Some people pull out the fluffy miga (crumb) before eating it, either to set it aside for later, or to toss it completely, which reduces the bread's weight by some 30 percent, saving calories and improving the spread-to-crust ratio. Children in Chile roll the miga into balls and figurines. Some of my friends reported having used it to erase pencil marks in their elementary school days. I pull out the miga if I'm using the marraqueta for a sandwich, so there's more room for the filling. In my own kitchen, I also do the very un-Chilean thing of saving the miga to make breadcrumbs, which here are called "grated bread" (pan rallado).