Fairy Bread - A Cultural Delicacy?

**{sarah}** · February 28th, 2008, 10:12 AM

I was googling fairies yesterday & came across this blog post that was totally unrelated to what I was searching for. I just thought it was quite interesting & the responses were hilarious with people from all over the world requesting the "recipe" LOL!

OK, so here's the story..... something that I, like many other Aussies have grown up with is the simple idea of taking buttered bread and sprinkling it with either multi-coloured Hundreds & Thousands, or multi-coloured Sprinkles.

So we move to the UK, are in temporary accommodation and Miss 5-almost-6 is about to have a birthday. Hmmm, we need something simple and easy for her classmates to share with her on this auspicious occasion that requires no cooking due to lack of cooking equipment, and won't cost a fortune, especially with the conversion rate.

AH-HA! She cries, 'fairy bread will cover the situation nicely!"

But being a new school and culture will they allow treats to be brought in. So the teacher is approached with the simple request of bringing in fairy bread. "Fairy bread???", "Never heard of it!"

I, thinking as with so many other things, imagine that the brits must just have another name for it, just like how OMO is called Persil, Kleenex toilet paper is Andrex and set-top boxes are called digi-boxes, and begin to explain.......
"I know what 100's & 1000's are......but as to the rest...? But it sounds yummy, so go right ahead!"

So I prepare for the miraculous miracle of making fairy bread, thinking to myself the teacher will either be disappointed in the results having imagined something much more creative, or will simply turn around with "Oh THAT - We call that xxxx here!"

Finally 3 grocery shops later I find 100's & 1000's and "sugar strands" (sprinkles for us Aussies) and the rest takes it's natural course with a nice, freshly cleansed kitchen becoming a field of minute, sugary land mines, but then voila, the finished result, all laid out on a nice foil dish (something I would surely have forgotten if I hadn't accidentally seen one).

So off we trot to school, fairybread in hand, and to my amazement the teacher is impressed and has never seen anything like it. "But it's such a simple idea....!" I stammer, thinking she's having me on, or as my husband thinks, pitying to poor, demented Australian girl, but no, she genuinely hasn't ever come across it before. "It must be a cultural dish" she says.
"Well, it might be..." I reply, "..but no-one's ever pointed that out to me before...."

So the humble fairy bread, a 'cultural' Australian delicacy? Who would have thought it!

Does this mean that if any multicultural days are held at school where you bring in your national dish, I can get away with a loaf of pre-sliced bread and some prettiliy coloured balls of sugar???

**Indadhanu** · February 28th, 2008, 10:19 AM

LOL! Who would have though fairy bread was so exclusive! Though personally, fairy bread isn't fairy bread unless it has 100s and 1000s on it! Those sprinkles just don't do, you don't get such a good crunch!!!! And I'm giggling away at people asking for the recipe! Just butter some white bread and chuck some 100s and 1000s on there. And YES it WILL make a good mess until you get the hang of it hehehe!

**{sarah}** · February 28th, 2008, 10:24 AM

Here are some of the responses:

Can you please tell me how to make it? Email it to me at .... I can see you have the sprinkles on it but there is something else on the bread as well. I would love to make this for my neices.

I think it's a cultural dish too. I've never even heard of the concept of fairy bread. Sounds interesting!

Never heard of this dish till now. Being a college student in the US i guess sprinkles would be the equal to 100's and 1000's.. i hope... ill have to give this a try one night for a study snack or something.

Um... WTF IS FAIRY BREAD?! Heh... Delish sounding.

I just had to laugh at people calling it a "dish" hehe!! It's classic.

**melham74** · February 28th, 2008, 10:28 AM

I put condesed milk on my bread then the 100's and 1000's

**Phteven** · February 28th, 2008, 10:28 AM

LOL
Yasin calls it happy birthday bread. He's only seen it at birthday parties.

**Kazbah** · February 28th, 2008, 10:29 AM

*blinks*

*blinks*

It's not a cultural dish, it's a staple diet!

Dach - that's so cute!

***mitch*** · February 28th, 2008, 10:31 AM

Alexa is having fairy bread & choc hail bread at her birthday on saturday hehehe... But I am using cookie cutters to make them in pretty shapes LOL

**melham74** · February 28th, 2008, 10:33 AM

*mitch* Alexa is having fairy bread & choc hail bread at her birthday on saturday hehehe... But I am using cookie cutters to make them in pretty shapes LOL

what is choc hail bread........?

**meow** · February 28th, 2008, 11:07 AM

Oh this made me laugh! Who would have thought that fairy bread is a cultural dish

'Dish' makes me laugh too Sarah. And asking for the 'recipe'... well... it's kinda simple...

*Nessa* · February 28th, 2008, 11:10 AM

Wow something so simple.

My girls love this, as do I (pg craving!!)

thats just really really weird

**~Kim~** · February 28th, 2008, 11:14 AM

ROFL that's hilarious....as she trots off to get some fresh bread.....

**Roryrory** · February 28th, 2008, 11:18 AM

Oh wow! How weird! I always wanted fairy bread for lunch like the Aussie kids at school (that and strassburg and tomato sace sandwitches). I had to settle for the healthy "ham cheese and tomato" ones.....

*Nessa* · February 28th, 2008, 11:22 AM

strassburg

Um what is that?????

Oh god now guess what i need to eat for lunch.

Thanks ladies

**Indadhanu** · February 28th, 2008, 11:24 AM

ROFL Nessa, have been thinking the same thing when I see the thread title! MMMMMMM fairy bread! Except I have no bread and no 100s and 1000s! Oh well, grocery shopping tomorrow, and hopefully I'll remember!

**Roryrory** · February 28th, 2008, 11:39 AM

Strassburg sausage is like a big....I dunno! Um, what state are you from? Can someone help me translate LOL!!!

*Nessa* · February 28th, 2008, 11:42 AM

its ok im being good.

Having ham and avocardo santwich instead

Rory- is it fritz????

**Indadhanu** · February 28th, 2008, 11:44 AM

Isn't it like salami, or is that different again? LOL!?

**tan32** · February 28th, 2008, 11:46 AM

I had to laugh my 4 yr old DS loves fairy bread but he calls it sprinkle sandwich.lol when ever we go anywere he asks for this for lunch.

At the moment we are trying to convince him that it is not a lunch he can take to kindy, my DH thinks it would be funny to see the kindy teachers faces.
Perhaps now that it is a cultural dish we could get away with it.

It would make my DS day.