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Anecdote 26 07 2007[edit]

I am an old lady from Indiana, USA. My grandmother's made us Fairy Bread with butter and sugar. My Paternal Grandmother made Fairy Bread with white sugar and we had to sit on the back porch steps to avoid getting sugar on the kitchen floor. My Maternal Grandmother, whom I liked best, made Fairy Bread with homemade butter and brown sugar. We ate it right at her table. It was a special treat from both grandmothers. Dr. Lois Love

Damn that sounds nice. I'm thinking of making some of it nowJoeldipops 23:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hoax comment[edit]

hoax

No it is not. Ask any Australian.

Or any Kiwi. Several parties I attended as a child were catered with fairy bread.

It exists...it's awesome! BaHaReep 01:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Confirming not a hoax, well known in Australia and cited in at least one online dictionary. I'll add citation and a photo in the near future. Paddles ^T_C 03:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Masterfoods[edit]

Fairy bread is not an official Masterfood product, even if it does contain the Masterfood product Hundreds and Thousands within the recipe. Because of this, the article does not belong in the Mars Brands category and will be removed. --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 06:05, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative name?[edit]

This seems similar to a treat made in a bakery in Los Angeles. We [I, my dad, the baker] call it a payasito (Spanish for tiny clown), and it's a slice of semi-cylindrical (it seems to be like French bread, but with a flat bottom, and a spiraling crust that can be peeled off, although I've never seen a full loaf of it), white or brown bread with pink swirls in it, and the upper crust (not lower) is covered with butter and then dipped into multi-colored sprinkles, instead of the crumb. I think the baker's Mexican, if that means anything. Paperxcrip (talk) 13:29, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of name[edit]

Surely closest thing would be fairy cakes? A simple sponge cake topped with hundreds-and-thousands, mostly only served at children's parties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.145.92.118 (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It is much more likely that the term comes from fairy cakes. It is my belief the Robert Louis Stevenson was referring to the children's name for eggy bread (see below). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.225.8.248 (talk) 00:34, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fairy Toast[edit]

In the North East of England fairy bread or fairy toast is what children called eggy bread/french toast because that is what the fairies ate. Apparently, it was once also the same in Australia: About French-toast The North East of England shares a lot of culture and words with the lowlands of Scotland, so there is every chance that Robert Louis Stevenson was referring to eggy bread in his poem about fairy bread. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.225.8.248 (talk) 00:31, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Playing with your food?[edit]

When the exact same thing is fixed over and over, perhaps saying "it is correct" isn't good enough? Or more to the point, how many times do you have to be right before you realize you're wrong(ish)? Since just beginning of April

covered with nonpareils (aka hundreds and thousands) [1]

covered with [[nonpareils|hundreds and thousands]] or sprinkles, [2]

covered with hundreds and thousands of sprinkles, [3]

covered with hundreds and thousands or sprinkles, [4]

covered with hundreds and thousands of sprinkles, [5]

covered with hundreds and thousands or sprinkles, [6]

covered with nonpareils or sprinkles, [7]

covered with hundreds and thousands or sprinkles, [8]

covered with hundreds and thousands of sprinkles, [9]

covered with hundreds and thousands or sprinkles, [10]

covered with hundreds and thousands of sprinkles, [11]

covered with hundreds and thousands or sprinkles, [12]

Just in case you think this is all only recent, e.g. 11 June 2009 "of" -> "or"

I would like to ask Bilby, Snori, Valeince and Ivar the Boneful to come up with a way of being both thoroughly Australian (and maybe NZealandish) and yet not so confusing that a perfectly normal editor would think "this reads wrong". Let's avoid the dozens of future fix edits. Shenme (talk) 03:04, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now. - Bilby (talk) 03:49, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That was indeed sort of what I was thinking of. If remains a problem, while away from the keyboard I thought of simply reversing the two:

covered with sprinkles or hundreds and thousands,

the idea being mention the more frequently seen first and then the less familiar. Having something named as a number is tricky. Shenme (talk) 16:56, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Early example.[edit]

There is an early example of it being described, though not by the name Fairy Bread, in the book ‘Tales, sketches and poems‘ by Caroline Clarke (1844-1884), published posthumously by her husband Alfred Edward Clarke in Melbourne in 1886. (The parents of Alfred Rutter Clarke here). Might be useful as an example, or more if other explicit examples can be found.

"also Mrs. Reid had not forgotten to have plenty of thin bread and butter, sprinkled over with "hundreds and thousands," which the children are so especially fond of." 219.89.80.147 (talk) 00:26, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Change White bread, butter, Hundreds and Thousands, sprinkles to White bread, butter, Hundreds and Thousands/Sprinkles 2001:8003:1605:6300:DC5B:5EA3:4C8F:BE4F (talk) 09:33, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: no reason given for the proposed change. M.Bitton (talk) 15:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Region or state: Netherlands and Belgium[edit]

I'm genuinely curious why the infobox states that this is from the Netherlands and Belgium. While putting sweets on bread/toast is definitely a Dutch tradition (as listed in the See Also section), I'm not sure that the concept of fairy bread itself, especially with the culture around serving it at children's birthdays, is necessarily from that area. Are there any sources that link the concept of fairy bread to that region? InvalidCards (talk) 20:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]