An Australian and European treat. Have you had it?
I’m not a FAG!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 18, 2024 2:01 AM |
Let the fairies eat cake.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 18, 2024 2:20 AM |
Wow. That's some fancy bread.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 18, 2024 2:26 AM |
It's an AMERICAN treat, OP!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 18, 2024 2:28 AM |
Oh look, we have created enchantment.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 18, 2024 2:29 AM |
Never heard of it
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 18, 2024 2:33 AM |
Typical nasty Aussie garbage food.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 18, 2024 2:34 AM |
The children will start their party with fairy bread and butter and 100s and 1,000s, and cakes, tarts, and home-made cakes..."
Sounds like an Eldergay Sunday brunch in Wilton Manors to me
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 18, 2024 2:38 AM |
They use pills in place of nonpareils at Wilton Manors, r8.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 18, 2024 2:41 AM |
I was scandalized when I was visiting some Dutch friends and their kids were scarfing this shit down as breakfast.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 18, 2024 2:41 AM |
Carbs!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 18, 2024 2:44 AM |
Ahh the Matt Damon troll never gets old. Sitting in the basement searching for threads he can “contribute” to…
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 18, 2024 2:45 AM |
Are you talking about the infamous " Meth Melba Toast". served with cottage cheese and an orange slice R9? It's a favorite with the Wilton Manor plus size crowd who are ever conscious of their weight. Only served 4am and the most deluxe establishments such as Red Roof Inn or Travelodge!!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 18, 2024 2:50 AM |
I love bread!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 18, 2024 3:06 AM |
R13, I detect a note of retaliatory hostility in her suggestions for ingredients.
"Remember - cheap bread and margarine only! This is white trash shit, y'all!"
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 18, 2024 3:23 AM |
It's literally just sugar on bread, which is itself a type of sugar. No, thanks!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 18, 2024 3:29 AM |
Is it eedy-feedy then luv?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 18, 2024 3:30 AM |
From the White House State Dinners thread. Yes. Mamie actually went there.
reply 17 Last Thursday at 12:50 PM @[R15], It was King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. It surprised it didn't cause a international incident...
President and Mrs. Eisenhower’s Dinner Menu
in Honor of King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, October 28, 1955
Shrimp Cocktail
Cocktail Sauce Saltine Crackers
Sherry
Clear Consommé
Sliced Lemmon
Celery Hearts • Assorted Olives
***Fairy Toast***
White Fish in Cheese Sauce
Coleslaw
Boston Brown Bread Sandwiches
White Wine
Crown Roast of Lamb Stuffed With Spanish Rice
Mint Jelly
French Peas • Braised Celery
Bread Sticks
Orange and Roquefort Cheese Salad Bowl
French Dressing
Toasted Triscuits
Champagne
Caramel Cream Mold
Burnt Caramel Sauce
Lemon Iced Diamond Shaped Cookies
Nuts • Candies • Demitasse
God, who could eat this crap 🤮
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 18, 2024 3:34 AM |
Pairs well with parsley potatoes.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 18, 2024 3:45 AM |
What would Greg do?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 18, 2024 3:57 AM |
R19, well, President and Mrs. Eisenhower; King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, evidently.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 18, 2024 3:58 AM |
I got the munchies last night and ate a whole packet of these:
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 18, 2024 4:01 AM |
Evidently what, r22? I didn't ask a question. I copied and pasted from the previous poster on that thread
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 18, 2024 4:06 AM |
R23 - did you do any dipping?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 18, 2024 4:13 AM |
It just looks like sprinkles on Wonder Bread
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 18, 2024 4:15 AM |
Tami and Kevin review Hundred and Thousands, and Caramel Crowns.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 18, 2024 4:15 AM |
In tea do you mean R25? I would have if I were having a cuppa but it was in the evening.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 18, 2024 4:17 AM |
I remember going to kids parties but the fairy bread never appealed to me. I went for the Neenish tarts.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 18, 2024 4:53 AM |
Dutch people eat chocolate sprinkles on toast for breakfast
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 18, 2024 5:01 AM |
Yes. It's disgusting. Even with unsalted butter, the sprinkles have a bitter taste because of the dye.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 18, 2024 5:01 AM |
They do R30 but on untoasted bread. They also eat ham and cheese sandwiches for breakfast too. Lekker.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 18, 2024 5:16 AM |
I guess there's a reason why there aren't too many "Dutch Cuisine" cookbooks
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 18, 2024 5:19 AM |
I can hardly imagine.
- Darfur Orphan
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 18, 2024 5:24 AM |
Baked with love by Karen Silkwood.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 18, 2024 5:25 AM |
Jimmies!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 18, 2024 5:34 AM |
That’s true R33!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 18, 2024 5:35 AM |
Imagine a houseful of kids at a birthday party, all having a sugar rush.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 18, 2024 6:57 AM |
This is why all those people with bright vivid hair are FAT.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 18, 2024 7:57 AM |
I'm so glad you all are keeping my memory alive... Now, let's make bangs the latest comeback trend
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 18, 2024 8:33 AM |
It's *really* overrated.
The sprinkles look special, but they don't really have a taste.
Even as a toddler, I preferred the other foods at parties.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 18, 2024 9:46 AM |
[quote] What would Greg do?
Greg wouldn’t use the unfortunate expression “if I were having a cuppa.”
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 18, 2024 11:09 AM |
I thought we established in a long-ago thread that Mamie Eisenhower's "fairy toast" wasn't the sprinkles-on-buttered-bread thing, but something more like melba toast, cracker-like, or at least plain and not sweet, as its position alongside celery hearts and olives between the consommé and fish course at R19 would suggest.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 18, 2024 11:28 AM |
How many fairies do you need for three loaves?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 18, 2024 11:33 AM |
American bread is sweet, R17. Australian bread is savoury-to-salty. That's one reason why y'all can't come to terms with Vegemite. It's putrid on bread with sugar in it.
I don't know how it can take the lass at R13's link four minutes to put sprinkles on buttered bread, but at least she does do it correctly: you put the sprinkles in a dish and put the buttered side of the bread on top of them. Sprinkling them onto the bread is the fairy bread equivalent of draining your pasta.
Ooh, R44, maybe it's the kind of bread I love, where you cut it very thin, very lightly butter and bake it till it's toasted. If you put it in muffin or patty tins first, it will come out in a shape you can put other hors d'oeuvres into.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 18, 2024 11:42 AM |
I remember a certain little girl liking this abomination. Reason #46 she had to go…
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 18, 2024 12:13 PM |
Fairy Toast is not fairy bread. It is lightly buttered white melba toast, intended for savories and relishes.
You don't really think they're going to set out the olives and celery along with a plate of Australian kiddie food, do you?
Granted Mrs. Eisenhower's menu overall is disgusting. But these were still adults.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 18, 2024 12:40 PM |
I'm bookmarking this thread for the next time we have a "Other Countries are superior and don't eat processed crap" conversation.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 18, 2024 12:45 PM |
R43 No one would say that in South Dakota.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 18, 2024 12:54 PM |
IIRC when we discussed the fairy toast on one of the "Mamie Eisenhower's low hangers" threads, we only came across the sprinkled toast version when trying to figure out what it was. What r48 says makes sense, but this was Mamie who decorated the presidential bedroom in girly pink...
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 18, 2024 5:28 PM |
Surprised Dutch people feed this to their kids in the morning as we are always inundated with stories about how much more healthy their diets are.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 18, 2024 5:44 PM |
Outside of Italy and Spain and parts of France, I have never been overmuch impressed by the average European diet.
Portion sizes are smaller, and there are more local recipes. But low salt? No fat? no meat? Have fun.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 18, 2024 5:58 PM |
R46 - the lass in R13 only takes one minute to prepare the fairy bread. She provides a preamble about how she caused a mini-scandal in Australia by cutting off the bread crusts.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 18, 2024 6:33 PM |
Ugh, it looks nasty.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 18, 2024 6:46 PM |
I like bread (toast) and butter...but sprinkles add zero in the way of flavor, unless they're CHOCOLATE sprinkles (or "jimmies" as they're called in Western NY or by Nancy Lee Grahn upthread).
This is weirdly inadequate and unnecessary, as far as "treats" are concerned.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 18, 2024 6:50 PM |
Snoopy served this to Peppermint Patty one Thanksgiving I think
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 18, 2024 6:51 PM |
Brits eat like methheads.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 18, 2024 6:53 PM |
Britain has a reputation for having the worst food.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 18, 2024 6:53 PM |
R50, would you please just shut up?
It would be impossible care any less than I already do about what you think, but I'm tired of your stupid comments.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 18, 2024 7:42 PM |
"Britain has a reputation for having the worst food."
Hold my fairy toast
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 18, 2024 7:56 PM |
Nar.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 18, 2024 8:37 PM |
Yep, decades ago backpacking in Europe, staying in hostels, came down to breakfast first time in Holland and the table was set with a loaf of sliced white bread, a slab of butter, and a bowl of chocolate sprinkles and a spoon. Horrified, and then after the first slice, absolutely hooked. Real chocolate sprinkles by the way.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 18, 2024 9:18 PM |
Dessert topping and butter on toast? How trashy. My father used a cinnamon/sugar mix. And we didn't need a fancy name to make ourselves feel better about eating it.
It could be fun to use the butter & sprinkles in a brioche version of this fairy bread, though. I could see that working out nicely.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 18, 2024 9:30 PM |
The Dutch don’t need Fairy Bread, they have POFFERTJES!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 18, 2024 9:34 PM |
Pop tarts would be the American equivalent.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 18, 2024 9:39 PM |
R58,
UK here, and I have never seen this disgusting concoction here.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 18, 2024 9:46 PM |
Fairy bread is what one uses to buy tickets to Broadway musicals.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 18, 2024 9:55 PM |
R46, eating fairy bread looks like the equivalent of eating a chip butty with curry sauce and mayonnaise or deep fried Mars bars. It's just trashy. It doesn't matter how you prepare it: only people who live in council estates and think that holidaying in Benidorm is sophisticated, would eat this.
Also, I have lived in Western Europe all my life, and I have NEVER seen anyone eat this perpetration. Where in Europe is this a common snack? Not even the English have enough bad culinary taste to prepare such a hideous aberration.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 18, 2024 10:52 PM |
Oh, please, R71. Google "Iced bun" for something just as objectionable and without the excuse as being prepared as a colorful party food for very small children.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 18, 2024 10:55 PM |
R73, so basically British trifle, only somewhat less puke-making in presentation.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 18, 2024 11:09 PM |
I thought it was just sprinkled with colored sugar, but the 100s & 1000s at least add crunch. But the crusts should be cut off.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 18, 2024 11:17 PM |
I have an idea!
Slice pound cake thickly.
Spread with butter.
Sprinkle with 100s & 1000s.
100/1000% less trashy and actually easier to eat.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 18, 2024 11:20 PM |
white trash food
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 18, 2024 11:24 PM |
Think of it as shredded Nutella on bread. Still trashy?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 19, 2024 8:18 AM |
I want to try the Fairy Bread Marshmallows from R64.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | April 19, 2024 8:39 AM |
Well, you're not Australian R43. Nobody would expect you to.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | April 19, 2024 8:49 AM |
R79, Nutella tastes great. White bread topped with margarine and tasteless sprinkles do not.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 19, 2024 9:09 AM |
It looks horrible. I don't remember having anything like that at the numerous parties I went to as a child. I do remember the plentiful buffets and getting a sugar high off Party Rings, though.
Oh and taking home a little party bag at the end. Remember party bags?! Are they just a UK thing?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 19, 2024 9:28 AM |
We had party bags in Australia
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 19, 2024 9:38 AM |
[quote]Think of it as shredded Nutella on bread. Still trashy?
Nutella is trashy, so… yes.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 19, 2024 10:17 AM |
To shred Nutella do you have to get it out of the container then freeze it then shred it? You might as well just spread it.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 19, 2024 11:03 AM |
I've had it, and I dont much like it, even with a cuppa. Too sweet for my liking
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 19, 2024 12:40 PM |
[quote]I'm bookmarking this thread for the next time we have a "Other Countries are superior and don't eat processed crap" conversation.
To be fair to Australians, fairy bread was only ever found at children's parties. I don't go to many of those but I imagine even there it is frowned upon nowadays. The poor little things probably have to eat kale. It is also a legacy from Australia's monocultural days: ie when we ate food we'd inherited from England (eek).
Things have changed a whole lot since the first Italians and Greeks to come here looked in dismay at the food we ate and said, "We're going to starve!"
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 19, 2024 2:26 PM |
[quote]Snoopy served this to Peppermint Patty one Thanksgiving I think
Actually, he served toast and popcorn.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 19, 2024 4:11 PM |
And jelly beans, R90.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 19, 2024 4:16 PM |
True, r91!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 19, 2024 4:31 PM |
Would it perhaps class the recipe up to use dragées instead of rainbow sprinkles or shots?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 19, 2024 6:21 PM |
I'm having this flashback of my mom making fairy bread for a party for me as a kid and no one wanting it. I am embarrassed.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 19, 2024 6:43 PM |
r94 are you Australian?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 19, 2024 10:09 PM |
We never ate white bread at home so it just never presented to me as exciting as party foods like pies, cupcakes, etc. The one time I was forced to try it, I didn't like it.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 19, 2024 10:17 PM |
Yeah, white bread was an abomination and NOT allowed at our house.
To this day, I prefer wheat bread for sandwiches over white (except for grilled cheese; that's different).
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 19, 2024 10:21 PM |
R95 - yes.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 19, 2024 10:30 PM |
It wasn't at every party, but it just didn't fit in with the other foods on offer. Pies, sausage rolls, pizza, crisps, lollies (candy), cake: Yes. Bread with tasteless sprinkles on it: No.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 19, 2024 10:37 PM |
R83 - what are UK party rings?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 20, 2024 4:36 AM |
I need to start wearing undershirts, my nipples are on fire from the friction.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 20, 2024 4:46 AM |
[quote] Dutch people eat chocolate sprinkles on toast for breakfast
Which goes a long way towards explaining the Heiress Apparent's appearance.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 20, 2024 4:48 AM |
The Fatass Apparent.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 20, 2024 8:57 AM |
This reminds me of Buffy and Jody eating butter and sugar sandwiches when they hung out with the poors.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 20, 2024 11:40 AM |
It's kind of sad that this disgusting food has not only survived, but made it's way to the US. The sprinkles are coloured, not flavoured! It is a trashy thing to see on a party buffet.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 20, 2024 12:54 PM |
poor cracker food
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 20, 2024 1:18 PM |
I guess it’s comparable to cinnamon toast.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | April 20, 2024 1:20 PM |
R108, cinnamon toast has flavor.
And cinnamon is actually very good for you.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | April 20, 2024 4:43 PM |
Ferry bread is better.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | April 21, 2024 1:29 PM |
We had cinnamon-sugar toast every morning
by Anonymous | reply 113 | April 21, 2024 1:40 PM |
You callin me a fairy?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 21, 2024 1:58 PM |
So this is why Aussies are so overweight. They are surrounded by so many beautiful beaches. Why do they sit around eating garbage?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 21, 2024 2:34 PM |
Try ant bread.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 21, 2024 2:34 PM |
Cinnamon toast was the go-to snack for kids when I was growing up. It was fast, easy and cheap to make. We washed it all down with Kool-Aid. Yet we were somehow healthier and better-adjusted than kids today.
Do kids today still make cinnamon toast? They probably eat hummus on artisanal crackers.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 21, 2024 3:37 PM |
We only had one piece of cinnamon toast for breakfast and a cup of tea with milk and sugar. Very sugary but we were never overweight be cause it was only one piece of toast.
I still crack up at TV sitcom breakfasts. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausages, toast, a big glass pitcher of orange juice and a box of cereal.
One character says “I don’t have time for breakfast” and runs out the door.
Another grabs a piece of toast, waves and leaves.
A boy sits at the table and pours cereal into a bowl.
Nobody touches the eggs, pancakes or sausages.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 21, 2024 5:19 PM |
At that point, I'd just have a cupcake or cake.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | April 21, 2024 7:23 PM |
Most Dutch kids who eat Hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) on their white slices of bread will then ride their bicycles to school. That sugar gets burned off right away.
And besides.. have a laugh at our terrible cuisine. We're hung like mules.
(and our cuisine would offend mules, but that's for another time)
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 21, 2024 7:28 PM |
American bread with sprinkles is the same thing.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | April 21, 2024 7:35 PM |
"And besides.. have a laugh at our terrible cuisine. We're hung like mules."
But some of you aren't.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 21, 2024 7:36 PM |
Damn. That’s a great comeback, R122. Teach me your ways, Sensei.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 21, 2024 8:23 PM |
R115, there are fast food places everywhere. A small shopping centre near to my parents (two major supermarkets, no department stores) has at least a dozen places to buy crappy food: McDonald's, Hungry Jack's (Burger King), KFC and two other chicken places, Domino's...if you're in a hurry and want something healthier, there's options at the Japanese, Lebanese and Subway. However, most people make the fattiest choices without vegetables even there. The meats, cheeses and breads look horrifying at Subway.
Perth is really spread out and a lot of people drive everywhere. The average New Yorker would be a lot thinner and fitter than the average Perth resident is my guess. In summer, it is so hot that a lot of people avoid going outside. Unless you're a seasoned labourer or conditioned to be active when the weather is hottest, most outdoor activities occur at the beginning or end of the day. Swimming and surfing are the big exceptions.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 22, 2024 4:00 AM |
R124 I was in Perth just a few weeks ago! Partner has relatives there. I loved it, nice and dry, and best cycle paths of any city I've been in, I did quite a bit of cycling there.
You're right about all the fast food places though. And all the fatarses. Really no excuse with the fantastic climate, great swimming and its almost as flat as Amsterdam so no good reason you cant cycle everywhere
by Anonymous | reply 126 | April 22, 2024 6:54 AM |
[quote] Nobody touches the eggs, pancakes or sausages.
And after all of June's early morning efforts.
Not to mention that she is always very well put together so early in the day.
Of course she will change from a simple day dress into something far nicer for dinner.
She is always dressed for housework at breakfast, but by the time the boys and Ward return home that afternoon, she is in a much nicer dress.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | April 22, 2024 12:56 PM |
[quote]have a laugh at our terrible cuisine
Well, you did give open invitation, r120.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | April 23, 2024 2:29 AM |
^ Also, is it me, or does the timbre of Dutch sound a lot like Irish? Gaelic specifically. I never really listened to Dutch until this video.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | April 23, 2024 2:36 AM |