Update: my wife says I have misled you all. That I should have specified that I eat all the pie filling before ANY crust. Bottom or side. She says this will skew the voting.
@rooster I do the exact opposite. I’m not that keen on pastry, and I always like to save the best but for last, so I eat all the crust first and then the filling. I eat the crusts of sandwiches before the filling too. But it’s definitely a personal choice thing!
@rooster If it’s in a bowl with a spoon I try, but then it’s probably soggy from custard so I don’t mind the pastry so much. If eating with fingers (and I’ve been eating a lot of sweet mince pies like that lately) that’s not really possible unless you are willing to get incredibly sticky