Is fairy bread popular?

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KeyboardMash615@reddit

I have no fucking clue what fairy bread is.

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

Bread with hundreds and thousands on it. Seems horrible and pointless to me, unless I'm missing something

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Sfb208@reddit

Doesn't it also have butter? So it's basically sweet bread and butter.

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ProgressMiserable878@reddit

No butter. They didn't need it and wouldn't be nice if they had.

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MzHmmz@reddit

How do the hundreds and thousands stick if there's no butter?? I'm familiar with the Dutch version as I have Dutch relatives and that definitely uses butter as an "adhesive" for the sprinkles.

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ProgressMiserable878@reddit

Because I was talking about iced buns not the sprinkle bread.

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MzHmmz@reddit

Oh. The comment you were replying to seemed to be talking about the "fairy bread", not iced buns, which is why I assumed that's what you were referring to too!

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ProgressMiserable878@reddit

Apologies. I was having a chat somewhere on this post about iced buns which you'd not put butter on as the icing sticks on top anyway.

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decisiontoohard@reddit

I think the Dutch one with chocolate sprinkles has butter

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MzHmmz@reddit

Oh, I thought that was a Dutch thing! Didn't realise other countries did it.

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

The Dutch use long sprinkles, I think. In Australia we use the round ones for the crunch.

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Ok_Neat2979@reddit

And people say british food is bad. Sounds pretty basic.

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thorpie88@reddit

It is basic but it's a cheap way to feed 20 kids at a birthday party

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Min_sora@reddit

It's probably the same amount of sugar.

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Leading_Study_876@reddit

Your kids will sadly never live that down...

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

I don't know. I've never actually seen in here (UK). Thought it was an Australian thing but I don't really know.

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Circa64Software@reddit

I once saw Margot Robbie eat fairy bread. It went up in my estimation afterwards.

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JamesTiberious@reddit

As a child I sometimes had hundreds and thousands sandwiches, but they weren’t called fairy bread/sandwiches.

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BuncleCar@reddit

If its got icing as well then I've seen it but not tried it

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

Icing has to be an improvement on just hundreds and thousands.

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LuKat92@reddit

I mean as a kid I used to love iced fingers. Literally just a hotdog bun with icing on it. Used to get good ones from Safeway

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FryOneFatManic@reddit

The better iced fingers were made with a sweeter enriched dough.

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It may be possible to buy iced brioche fingers, but standard iced buns were / are made from a fairly standard bread dough. Some say it’s a sweetened dough, but that could be an assumption since the icing makes the bun taste sweet.

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ProgressMiserable878@reddit

Your right. They were a soft bread dough like hotdog buns with icing on top. I think they did have a sweet dough too. Some even had lemon icing which were yummy. But mine in my area growing up had sprinkles on them. We didn't even have brioche back in my day in the 70's when I was at school.

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Anonimoose15@reddit

Oh the lemon icing was lovely! As a kid I’d lick it off and then just eat the plain bun out of obligation 😂

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ProgressMiserable878@reddit

Yes they were the best if you could get hold of them. Some bakeries even had pink iced buns. 😁 But I'd not eat them now unless it's a treat as all that sugar is not good for us. Sadly many don't realise that refined sugar is the biggest killer slow drug in the world. 🙄 I cringe at what parents are feeding their children now. It's sad to see as what we put in our bodies when we are younger has an affect when we are older.

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Subterraniate2@reddit

Oh they were lovely! Iced buns, I wonder do they still exist. Probably nowhere near sweet enough for today.

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TheGeordieGal@reddit

They do exist! The Morrisons ones are a bit meh (they have 2 versions - 1 with and 1 without sprinkles), but if you have a Cooplands bakery near you, they’re amazing.

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noddyneddy@reddit

M&S do them - they’re an occasional treat for me

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BookishHobbit@reddit

The supermarket ones all seem to just be made with normal bread rolls nowadays. Not nearly as nice :(

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Fine-State8014@reddit

Last ones I had had jam in them so they might be evolving

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KeyboardMash615@reddit

Fuuuuuuuuck, I remember these. Can you still get them? The fact that they undoubtedly cost more than 29p these days would probably dampen the nostalgia factor, but I could seriously go for an iced finger right now.

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MojoMomma76@reddit

Pretty sure you can get them in Greggs

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Leading_Study_876@reddit

Try a yum-yum! Or are they only available in Scotland?

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

A proper one would have had sweeter bread, not just a regular bun.

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Sexy_Vegan_Pants@reddit

Just saying that we have iced finger buns which is literally icing on a bread roll ;)

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OkTadpole2920@reddit

Really? That sounds horrible.

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

Me too.

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Trust_A_Tree@reddit (OP)

It's randomly peak

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Key_Illustrator4822@reddit

Nah, it's literally as shit as its description

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Srapture@reddit

They often have that sort of thing at "continental breakfast" bars in hotels, right? I've always been confused by the sprinkles at those things, haha.

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Limp-Archer-7872@reddit

Sounds like a good partner to the hot dog roll covered in basic icing we have here.

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

Not unless their bread is sweeter and specifically for that purpose.

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DinkyPrincess@reddit

Sweet. Soft. Buttery. Crunchy.

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FPRorNothing@reddit

Same

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MJLDat@reddit

Bread made with fairy liquid instead of water.

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Gammabrunta@reddit

Fairy up liquid?

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MJLDat@reddit

That takes me back to my childhood!

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cctwunk@reddit

White toast, margarine, and sprinkles. Honestly pretty good but nothing special if you don't have nostalgia about it

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Pleasant-Put5305@reddit

53 years - never heard those words used together - assume it's American-style "bread" - i.e. actual sweet cakes mislabeled.

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Hurricane_Taylor@reddit

It’s just white bread with butter and sprinkles on it. My cousin used to make me it when I was little, about 30 years ago lol. I’m in UK

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booroms@reddit

Bread for Southerners?

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KeyboardMash615@reddit

😆😆😆

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-_G0AT_-@reddit

Downvoted for not knowing what fairy bread is

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Squeak_Stormborn@reddit

Same. Fairy cakes, yes. Fairy bread, no idea.

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ribenarockstar@reddit

I’ve never seen it anywhere other than a party hosted by an Australian

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KauriAni@reddit

Kiwi living in UK here. Fairy bread was common in NZ, not so common here. Bread, butter and the little ball “hundreds and thousands” (as we called sprinkles). And the bread was cut to triangles! Top tier kids treat.

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GingerPrince72@reddit

It pretty much shows how appalling Australian food is.

Not even an actual baked fairy cake with icing and hundreds and thousands, it's highly processed white "bread" with butter and hundreds and thousands.

Poor little mites.

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

Aussies have fairy cakes too (iced and uniced), and other staple biscuits and slices. But this is kids' party food, not regular dining.

Australian cuisine is nothing like that usually. Even kids don't eat fairy bread every day, but it's cheap, quick and easy for parties. And it's very hard to run out of it.

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GingerPrince72@reddit

I know what Australian food is, as I said, I have family there, in fact I'm going for 2 weeks next weekend.

I never said kids eat fairy bread every day, I've seen it many times at kids' parties where more civilised countries would use real icing and real cake.

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oraff_e@reddit

I think it used to be popular as party food at kids' birthday parties (well it was for mine, circa late-90s) but it's probably a regional thing as to if people here know what it is tbh

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Ok_Neat2979@reddit

Poor kids, can't the parents make a cake?

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

But you'll never run out of fairy bread at a party.

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oraff_e@reddit

They do? I don't know how common this was but we had a pretty decent spread, cocktail sausages, sausage rolls, sandwiches, cake, fairy bread... the works

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Master-Treat-9752@reddit

i would say the closest common thing we have to fairy bread is an iced bun. they’re very common and quite popular! x

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

Aussies have iced finger buns too, but we don't usually put the 100s & 1000s on buns.

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simply_clare@reddit

Never heard of it, had to Google it and I have only one question, WHY would anyone even go there????

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

It's great for kids' parties. Cheap, colourful, takes no time to make and easy to make more if you run out. Kids like bland flavours anyway.

It's not like adults eat it regularly; maybe for some kind of themed party or the leftovers from a children's event. If you grow up with it, it's nostalgic.

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Trust_A_Tree@reddit (OP)

COS ITS NOT AS BAD AS PEOPLE SAY

when people think Australia they think snakes and spiders and outback and farm

ITS NOT JUST THAT we have big city life too and suburbs n shi

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DesignerTune6843@reddit

As an Aus living in England for the past 9 years, everyone thinks I’m absolutely mad at even the suggestion of eating fairy bread and what it is lol

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Grouchy-Ad1932@reddit

I've never understood the push back. Coloured sugar on bread, what's the objection? It's no worse than cinnamon toast, and you don't have to toast it.

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Infinite-Worry4541@reddit

I know what it is, but never eaten it or known anyone who eats it

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Soggy-Statistician88@reddit

I have heard of it because my mum is Australian. No one else I know has though

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ihavetakenthebiscuit@reddit

I know what it is, but for everyone else's benefit can you explain what it is?

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TangerineCassidy@reddit

Back in the 1940's/50's people often ate sugar butties when they were poor. It's essentially the same thing 😂

If you were less poor it was Jam butties.

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Subterraniate2@reddit

No. What is it?!

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excitablegibben@reddit

It's bread and butter topped in chocolate hundreds and thousands so thick you can't see the bread.

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systemicrevulsion@reddit

Or even better, tired with Nutella and then hundreds and thousands. Or sprinkles as they're called in the UK.

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Reccalovesdancing@reddit

In the UK they are called hundreds and thousands. I believe it's the Americans that call them sprinkles

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Silver-Machine-3092@reddit

They're sprinkles in Netherlands, but they also say hagelslag - I've heard both. And they eat them on bread, as described above.

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systemicrevulsion@reddit

I'm in Scotland. They're called sprinkles here.

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clutchnorris123@reddit

Naw they aren't. It's always been hunners and thousands

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RoboTon78@reddit

Nope, they've always been hunners and thoosands. But I guess younger folk will say sprinkles.

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simply_clare@reddit

Always called them hundreds and thousands in the North West of England, never sprinkles.

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mynameishardtospell@reddit

Actually it’s rainbow hundreds and thousands.

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excitablegibben@reddit

The Australian in my garden says it's chocolate but also that it changes in different city's. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I'm English. It all sounds weird.

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moist-v0n-lipwig@reddit

‘The Australian in your garden’ sounds like you’ve kidnapped an Australian and forced him into service as a garden gnome.

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Sate_Hen@reddit

Nah he's just dug a really deep hole

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Subterraniate2@reddit

Isn't there a very popular Dutch confection like this, involving just bread and tiny weeny chocolate flakes? (Which fall off and get everywhere!)

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Mammoth_Tension_4402@reddit

Oh yuk. Thanks for explaining but that sounds absolutely vomitous.

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pussellrarker@reddit

No idea what it is

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mintymoomin@reddit

We're more of a savoury sarnie country, comfort food looks like crisp sandwiches on the cheapest own-brand white, or a thick doorstop slice of crusty bread with a pork pie. You'll have more luck in an Ask Netherlands sub

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MzHmmz@reddit

I only know what it is because of the Internet. I did occasionally eat hundreds and thousands sandwiches as a kid, but that was just a me thing, not something I heard of anyone else doing (I think I got the idea because I have Dutch cousins so I'm familiar with the Dutch variation on this).

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

I think it's a regional thing. I'd never heard of it until a new girl started at my primary school and would talk about having fairy bread (and laugh at me for not knowing what it was), they'd moved here to Cornwall from Essex.

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loveswimmingpools@reddit

No it's not popular. I saw it in Netherlands but I've never seen anyone eat it here.

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CosmoPrincess@reddit

My 2 year old loves fairy bread, it started as a birthday treat now he asks for it at least monthly

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snarkmaiden5@reddit

Never heard of it until now... seems niche

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StockholmGirl29@reddit

Never heard of it! I live in the UK.

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thelivsterette1@reddit

It's basically just white buttered bread topped with sprinkles!

As someone who can't have dairy or gluten I wish I could try the Dutch(?) version which is basically with chocolate sprinkles as I love chocolate

Ooooh a chocolate popping candy one would be amazing g

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blenderwolf@reddit

Hundreds and thousands in the UK, not “sprinkles”

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thelivsterette1@reddit

Hundreds and thousands is such a deliberately obtuse name and even my older siblings who are in their thirties have never called them hundreds and thousands, we've always called em sprinkles as you sprinkle them on 🤷‍♀️

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Petcai@reddit

I'd never seen it until it was posted on social media by an Aussie and I checked it out because I thought they were joking.

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Trust_A_Tree@reddit (OP)

it's randomly peak

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garyisaunicorn@reddit

I think it's a lot more popular in Netherlands? r/AskNL I think

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Trust_A_Tree@reddit (OP)

sure

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SimpleExpress2323@reddit

I'd say so. I had some Dutch friends trying to introduce me to putting 'sprinkles' on bread. Hundreds and Thousands basically

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dualdee@reddit

Yeah, I've heard of it being a thing there

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newbris@reddit

Its not even that popular in Australia

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Geejay-18@reddit

I've never heard of it. So unless I'm extremely dozy, no, it isn't popular in the UK.

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TwntyKnots@reddit

The closest thing I’ve seen is an iced bun in the uk. It’s a hotdog bun with icing on top. Other than that, I don’t think fairy bread is popular.

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AdApart5035@reddit

I know what it is, but it's not popular.

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Outrageous-Arm1945@reddit

Nah, I'm aware of it, we prefer to put icing on a hotdog bun

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Min_sora@reddit

It's gonna really surprise you when you eat one of those things and find out it's not a hotdog bun.

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Outrageous-Arm1945@reddit

Mate, my school literally ordered the pre sliced ones by mistake, just banged a bit of jam in the crack.

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Khaleesix87@reddit

I know what it is but only because of Bluey 🫣

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TSC-99@reddit

Never heard of it

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Icy-Revolution1706@reddit

We know what it is, and are repulsed by the idea.

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Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit

not fairy bread but sugar sandwiches are a thing in ireland.

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Electronic-Air2035@reddit

I'm nearly 40 and growing up it was definetley around, people didn't have it all the time but I had it if there was left over 'hundreds and thousands' that needed using up.

I think I may have made it for my oldest daughter once (21) she wasn't overly impressed 😂

I'm not a baker and I don't like cakes so I never have any spare sprinkles, it was kind of a struggle meal/random snack more than a regular treat.

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ShelecktraYT@reddit

Know what it is, but we have our own sugar sarnie over here, so using hundreds and thousands would be seen as being posh I guess maybe? 🤣

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JaggedOuro@reddit

From UK and have never heard of it

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HalfAgony-HalfHope@reddit

No, not at all. But we do have iced buns - a hotdog bun with icing on the top. The most boring cake. 🤣

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Sonarthebat@reddit

Nope. Most probably haven't even heard of it. It's more of an Australian thing.

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The_Blonde1@reddit

I’ve never heard of it.

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EeveeTheFuture@reddit

I know what it is and out of curiosity I have tried it. It's very sweet and a strange crunchy texture and I get why it's popular amongst children in Australia. It's better than peanut butter and jam sandwiches which I also tried again out of curiosity and that was a disaster, like eating sweet wallpaper paste

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Intelligent-Ear-6292@reddit

Fairy bread is not a thing in my life. Fairy cake, yes.

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Aware-Combination165@reddit

I only know about it from watching Bluey

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Simmo2222@reddit

Only seen it in Australia

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Pale_Height_1251@reddit

Not in the UK really no.

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Fuzzy_Percentage5873@reddit

I know what it is and have tried it, but only from doing a world foods evening at Brownies as a child. Not because it is popular in the UK I don’t think I would have known what it was or ever tried it outside of that activity.

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hongkonghonky@reddit

It was a frequent appearance at children's parties when I was young and my kids love it.

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KimonoCathy@reddit

Never heard of it.

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ZealousidealSite3730@reddit

No but I was partial to sugar bread when I was younger

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Goldf_sh4@reddit

It's not really a thing in the UK.

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Mangomi16@reddit

I know what it is, but only because I've seen stuff online about it being popular in Australia. I've never seen it in England.

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Impressive-Safe-7922@reddit

I think I read about something similar in a Noel Streatfield book when I was a kid, but it was described as something of a novelty rather than a normal thing to eat. I don't think it had a name. That's the only place I've heard of it outside of Australian references.

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whatswestofwesteros@reddit

This has given me such a fancy to read Ballet Shoes and The Painted Garden

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Impressive-Safe-7922@reddit

I love re-reading Ballet Shoes. Never read The Painted Garden though, nor really have any idea what it's about. I'll have to investigate.

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whatswestofwesteros@reddit

Yes it's fantastic! It's set in America and the MC (name escapes me) meets some of the Fossil sisters, who are all older, when she's in a production of the Secret Garden. I was such a fan of Ballet Shoes I loved seeing them again in another book. They aren't the main focus but it's really fun when you meet them again!

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Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit

No idea what it is. Doesn't sound healthy! Is it like cake?

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PolgaraEsme@reddit

Heard of it, never seen it in real life, can’t really remember what it is but I think sprinkles are involved. So no, not common in uk.

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thelivsterette1@reddit

It'd basically buttered, sprinkle covered white bread

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HoneyBee_Bright@reddit

Haven’t seen it since the 80s. I used to love it at kids’ birthday parties though

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iThoughtOfThat@reddit

"Is bread fairLy popular ?" That's what I read !😂

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VeganHaggisLover@reddit

I’m Scottish and love fairy bread but it’s definitely not a Scottish or British thing. I started to eat it as I do love all things Aussie lol, same with lammingtons

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cakesforever@reddit

Ianningtons look lovely. I must make them soon.

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-auntiesloth-@reddit

No, it's not at all popular, and most people here have never even heard of it.

Funnily enough, I made some today. It was my nephew's first birthday, and he absolutely loves Bluey. I had heard of Fairy Bread through social media, so I made some because it's Australian, like Bluey. Nobody liked it. 😞

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illarionds@reddit

I'm an Aussie, been living in the UK over 30 years now.

Haven't seen fairy bread since I left.

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Foxy-Badger@reddit

Absolutely not. My daughter likes hundreds and thousand poured directly into her mouth or directly all over the floor. Anything else is just wasting time.

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horn_and_skull@reddit

We whip it out at every “cultural” event and our own kid’s party (we are Australians living in London), people are awed and amazed every time… it’s 100´s and 1000’s on bread guys… but very cost effective.

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SaabAero93Ttid@reddit

I only ever saw it when I was in Australia for a while and I was a bit repulsed by it to be honest, it really seems like a very very poor effort from someone who couldn't be arsed to make cakes or buns.

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shelleypiper@reddit

No, we don't know what that is

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Alicam123@reddit

Never heard or seen it, sorry.

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No_Bullfrog_6474@reddit

i’ve only heard about it online, i’ve never so much as seen it irl

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ChalkLetters@reddit

My mum used to make my fairy sandwiches, which are similar: bread with jam & hundreds and thousands, sometimes cute into cute shapes with cookie cutters.

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Sepa-Kingdom@reddit

Ooh! Jam as well as hundreds and thousands and butter. That’s posh!

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ChalkLetters@reddit

I didn't like butter, so they needed something to make the hundreds & thousands stick.

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Coconutpieplates@reddit

I have a lot of aussie family and lived there for a while so I know it and love it. It's absolutely not a thing here. I tried suggesting it to friends when we were younger and they were just weirded out and convinced it wasn't substantial.

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GarfieldUK@reddit

I first heard of it while watching a documentary about Australia, I think it was called Neighbours

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Specialist_Emu7274@reddit

I know what it is and have eaten it. Someone I was friends with in primary school has family from Australia so I had it at her house. Never had it elsewhere though or made it myself

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TimedDelivery@reddit

Australian that’s lived in the UK for over a decade here, nobody has ever heard of it. But I made some for International Day at my son’s school and all the kids absolutely loved it!

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rosywillow@reddit

My mother spent four years in Australia during WWII, so I know what it is and ate it as a child, but I remember clearly that friends of mine didn’t know what it was when I talked about it.

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iceman2g@reddit

I only know what it is because of Reddit. I doubt many of my friends or acquaintances would ever have heard of it. And it sounds like the sort of thing you have to have eaten as a child to want to eat as an adult.

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Commercial_Shop_392@reddit

Don't know what that is, so no

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Gnarly_314@reddit

About the closest thing I have eaten is a sandwich with some golden syrup as a filling. Just enough syrup to taste otherwise you will wear more than you eat.

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MarsStar2301@reddit

Heard of it online so I know what it is, never seen it in real life in the UK (or anywhere else), haven’t tried it. I like how colourful it is, though🙂🌈

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deleteforeverr@reddit

I’m Australian living in England and I’ve brought fairy bread in to work before to show my colleagues what it was and most people hated it, they were like umm it’s just bread butter and sugar. They don’t get 🤣

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tunaman808@reddit

People's experiences are funny. I've lived in the US my whole life and was like "WTF is 'fairy bread'?". So I google it and am like "oh, they're talking about rainbow hagelslag!"

More experience with Dutch culture than Australian culture, I guess.

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Mustbejoking_13@reddit

No, I wouldn't say so.

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Whollie@reddit

I know of it, but only because I dated an Australian in Australia. I'd still rather have the cinnamon sugar one though.

However, a sugar sandwich is a thing in some places. Cheap white bread, spread, little sprinkle of caster or granulated sugar. A cheap, quick, easy treat for kids and while nutritionally pretty crap, it could be a lot worse.

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Zxxzzzzx@reddit

I grew up poor we had fairy bread a lot.

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Hopeful_chap@reddit

Incredibly popular, yes. One small question, though. What is it, I've never heard of it?

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Suspicious_Banana255@reddit

I know of it as an Australian thing, never tried it or seen it in UK

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ShopLife907@reddit

It’s not really a British thing. I would bring some into work for Anzac Day/ Australia Day more to see people faces of horror as they would have no idea what it was. It’s essentially coloured sugar on cheap white bread. Kids love it.

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Ancient-Awareness115@reddit

I know what it is but have never made it for kids parties, but my kids are in the early and mid 20s now

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Great_Chipmunk4357@reddit

If you called something fairy bread in the US and Canada, you’d have the general population rolling around in fits of hysteria.

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Llemur1415@reddit

Don't know what it is

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OpeningWhereas6912@reddit

Aussie in the UK, Ive had to explain it several times to friends and colleagues so I would say no.

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wonky-hex@reddit

I know what it is! No it is not a thing here

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

It’s not something we do as a tradition like Australia. Although I’m sure some have adopted it or brought it over. It’s definitely not common.

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MuttonDressedAsGoose@reddit

I know what it is but the Dutch chocolate version is superior

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LaurenNotABot@reddit

I know what it is and I’ve had it when I was younger as they have something similar in the Netherlands and my dad is Dutch .

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Shoddy-Reply-7217@reddit

Never heard of it

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Weird1Intrepid@reddit

I know what it is, and that it's popular in Oz, but I don't think I've ever seen it over here

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kifflington@reddit

Googled it. Sounds terrible.

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Mother_Composer_6069@reddit

I know it's a Aussie thing, like Lamingtons or a sausage in a slice of bread when you vote. It's not something we do here.

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cctwunk@reddit

No, most people don't know about it at all. I've heard of it years ago, made some to try, thought it was nice

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ColdAppointment3917@reddit

I know what it is but never had it. Not a staple here like the mighty yorkshire puddings

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OkTask9452@reddit

Euughhh no thank you

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F-wank@reddit

What the L is that?

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slinkimalinki@reddit

I have no idea what that is.

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prustage@reddit

I think this is what the Dutch call Hagelslag. Pretty unknown in the UK but I believe the Dutch love it. Mind you, they seem to love anything with hundreds and thousands ("sprinkles")

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DollySheep32@reddit

My childhood friend's dad is Australian and we had it sometimes at their house. Other than that I've not seen it often.

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QuirkyWolfie@reddit

I know what it is and I've made it once in like my first year of school so I was maybe 4 or 5? It was nothing special didn't taste of much tbh

I wouldn't say it's a thing here at all really many won't even know what it is

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Down-Right-Mystical@reddit

Never heard of it, and after a quick Google, it sounds disgusting, sorry.

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harrietmjones@reddit

I do know what it is. It’s definitely not popular and a lot of people wouldn’t know what it was.

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Aubrey-Grey@reddit

I hadn’t heard of it until they introduced it to Sims 4 last year lol

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darkotics@reddit

I have heard of it and eaten it (although didn’t eat it in the UK but not in Australia either haha). But I’ve never seen it served here or eaten here other than by Aussies to show people it.

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

I know what it is and I’ve eaten it a few times many years ago!

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Moorhenlessrooster@reddit

No. I've seen it at a few children's parties but it's not a staple.

Kids parties tend to have pizza, basic sandwiches, cake and crisps, token veg sticks.

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CharmingMeringue@reddit

Never heard of it. I now know that it's coloured sugar on bread. Yuck! My life is in no way enriched by the knowledge that this exists.

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Tom_FooIery@reddit

I didn’t know what it was until a couple of years ago, tried it once. It was alright but nothing to get too excited about.

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Impossible_Fudge_906@reddit

I've made it once for the kids they weren't impressed

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not1or2@reddit

No idea what it is!

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Wubbleyou_@reddit

Strewth Bruce, I’ve no idea what it is cobber.

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kingoffuckery@reddit

Still not tried it but I remember as a child sometimes having sugar on bread, be almost the same texture

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vcdaisy@reddit

Is it the Aus equivalent of sugar sandwiches? Something I've never had myself but other boomers my age have mentioned that one. So not a current thing I believe. I should think young kids would love the colours in fairy bread

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cuppoteaplease@reddit

Not heard of it until a few months back when I saw it mentioned on Reddit.

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LaraH39@reddit

Know what it is but it's not something we eat.

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nineteenthly@reddit

I Googled it when I saw your question and the answer is no, and I've never heard of anyone doing that before.

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Mubadger@reddit

I've only heard of it through the magic of the internet. I've never heard of anyone here in the UK actually eating it.

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MrAnonymousTheThird@reddit

So basically most doughnuts (pretty much just bread with sugar on top)

Theme park fried sugar doughnuts are elite however

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Good_Lettuce_2690@reddit

Nearly 50 here. Only heard of it for the first time a few months ago watching a Ladbible snackwars episode where Margo Robbie was raving about it. So no.

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hundreddollar@reddit

Not only is it "not popular" most British people would have never heard of it or ever seen an example of it.

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Puzzleheaded-Lynx204@reddit

I know what it is but only as an Australian (/kind of Dutch) thing.

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Agathabites@reddit

No idea what it is.

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pineapplewin@reddit

Try the Netherlands

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becpuss@reddit

Dunno what it is 🤷‍♀️

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Aware-Plankton-8711@reddit

Il be honest I’ve never heard of it 🤔

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Significant-Glove521@reddit

Only because I took my daughter to a birthday party of a nursery friend and the mum was an Aussie so there was absolutely fairy bread on the table!

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BaddyWrongLegs@reddit

Heard of it but only as a thing that apparently exists in Australia, like quokkas and sunhine

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Isn't it the same as the Dutch hagelslag?

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targetsbots@reddit

Yes

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Oh sorry I didn't realise you weren't OP

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Probably why we don't know it then, except me but I'm obsessed with food.

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MidasToad@reddit

Have heard of it, but it's not something that people do: sprinkles are sold purely for cake decoration here.

There's a very popular breakfast in the Netherlands that is similar to fairy bread.

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DasSockenmonster@reddit

I've heard of it, and I've heard of hagelslag but no one I know has had it here. I do fancy trying both of them.

Hagelslag is a similar idea to fairy bread, but without the multicolour sprinkles, Dutch people do it with just chocolate sprinkles.

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Flat-Ad8256@reddit

Fairy bread? Never heard of it - what is it?

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kalendral_42@reddit

I like it. But then I also like Paprika bread (someone should come up with a better name for it)

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myblackandwhitecat@reddit

I have never heard of it

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shadow-season@reddit

I know what it is, I've never seen or heard of it in the UK.

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j-Lou_182@reddit

More common in Holland

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wildflower12345678@reddit

Never heard of it.

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ellemeno_@reddit

I had an Australian colleague who would bring in fairy bread sandwiches on her birthday.

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Stressy_messy_me@reddit

Heard of it but never seen or tried it

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Shannoonuns@reddit

We don't do that. We have iced buns which is a cake that kind of looks like a hotdog bun with runny frosting on top and sometimes has sprinkles on it. More like a ring donut thats long.

Thats the closest thing.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

I've only heard of it in the context of small children's parties.

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TokuTheGreatCorso@reddit

bit gay tbh not that common

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

I've never heard of it

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Acidphire21@reddit

my first thought was washing up liquid on bread? which random tiktok shite is telling people to wash their bread

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MsMisty888@reddit

As a Canuk, I have never heard of fairy bread.

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UNDR_dogg@reddit

Tried it once and after that... I wish I hadn't.

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rattlingdeathtrain@reddit

I only know what it is because I researched Australian food for a nations themselves fancy dress party (each guest representing a different nation). Fairy bread sounded disgusting but I made it anyway, and it was surprisingly okay. Although most guests didn't want to try it.

No it is not popular or well known in the UK.

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miemcc@reddit

I have seen it in the Netherlands, it's called Hagelslag. Virtually unknown in the UK, though the sprinkles are available in the supermarkets.

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systemicrevulsion@reddit

I'm living in UK. No one knows what it is and if you served it to them they would likely put their noses up at it.

Personally I think that just means more for me.

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targetsbots@reddit

We know what it is but not many people eat it. You can't get packs of it like it the Netherlands and Australia though you'd have to make your own from cake sprinkles.

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FearlessBanana81@reddit

Na, most of us knows what it is, we just don't want it lol

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abstract_groove@reddit

WTF is fairy bread

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DemonicHedgehogs@reddit

Heard of it from an Aussie relative. Never tried it myself, or seen any other Brit eating it. It doesn’t sound very appealing to me, if I wanted dough with sprinkles I’d nip down to the bakery and get myself a doughnut

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