Is it true that lead is heavy?
Nov. 24th, 2020 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAccording to an advertisement I saw, today, 24 November, is National Fairy Bread Day. An advertisement by the company that makes the vital ingredient of fairy bread, so I was all prepared to scoff, but it turns out they are using it as a fundraiser for a mental health charity so... kudos.
Anyway, fairy bread. I gather from cursory googling that fairy bread is an Australian delicacy. Hence a national day for it, rather than an international one, I suppose. Fairy bread was a staple food at birthday parties when I was little, and perhaps it still is. Make yourself a slice as a treat and pretend you're at an Australian child's birthday party in the 1980s! All you need is cheap white bread, covered with easily spreadable butter. Turn it upside-down onto a plate of 100s & 1000s (you may know them as nonpareils), and cut the finished slice into little triangles. You'll end up with something like this:
Cheap. Sweet. Colourful. Entirely lacking in nutrition.
It will surely be only a matter of time before modern cafés start making hipster versions, perhaps on brioche covered in glitter sprinkles or some such.
Anyway, fairy bread. I gather from cursory googling that fairy bread is an Australian delicacy. Hence a national day for it, rather than an international one, I suppose. Fairy bread was a staple food at birthday parties when I was little, and perhaps it still is. Make yourself a slice as a treat and pretend you're at an Australian child's birthday party in the 1980s! All you need is cheap white bread, covered with easily spreadable butter. Turn it upside-down onto a plate of 100s & 1000s (you may know them as nonpareils), and cut the finished slice into little triangles. You'll end up with something like this:
Cheap. Sweet. Colourful. Entirely lacking in nutrition.
It will surely be only a matter of time before modern cafés start making hipster versions, perhaps on brioche covered in glitter sprinkles or some such.