Crusts and chest hair

Do parents still tell a boy child that eating the crusts will put hair on his chest? According to The Family Circus , they do.

I like the way the Circus is stuck in an unyielding past. Brown paper bags! Cameras on straps! Landlines! Crusts and chest hair!

[Brown paper bags: The kind that you hold in front of you with two hands, not the fancy kind with paper handles. Ideally, there’s a head of celery sticking out from the top of the bag.]