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fairy breadnoun
An Australian/New Zealand snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
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Fairy bread
Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with "Hundreds and Thousands", often served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand. It is typically cut into triangles.Although people had been putting hundred and thousands (or nonpareils) on bread and butter for some time, the first known reference to this dish as Fairy Bread was in the Hobart Mercury in April 1929. Referring to a party for child inmates of the Consumptive Sanitorium, the article proclaimed that "The children will start their party with fairy bread and butter and 100s and 1,000s, and cakes, tarts, and home-made cakes..."The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses published in 1885, and had been used for a number of different food items before the current usage.In April 2021, the satirical group The Chaser created a fabricated online petition calling for the renaming of fairy bread, calling it "offensive", which resulted in many mainstream news stories.In November 2021, a Google Doodle was created to celebrate fairy bread.
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Fairy bread
Originating from Australia, fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with margarine or butter and covered with sprinkles or hundreds and thousands which stick to the spread. It is typically cut into squares or triangles. Fairy bread is commonly served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand. The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885.
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Read the full text of the Fairy Bread poem by Robert Louis Stevenson on the Poetry.com website.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fairy bread in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fairy bread in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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