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536: 95: 31: 187:, had been banned from South Australian schools. The SA Education Department subsequently released a statement that this was not the case and that their new guidelines for school canteens were optional. 153:, 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..." 462: 173:
created a fabricated online petition calling for the renaming of fairy bread, calling it "offensive", which resulted in many mainstream news stories.
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EDUCATIONSA Education Department issues statement clarifying Fairy Bread bans following media frenzy
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published in 1885, and had been used for a number of different food items before the current usage.
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The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in
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in April 1929. Referring to a party for child inmates of the
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Although people had been putting hundred and thousands (or
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In 2024 rumours surfaced that Fairy Bread, along with
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Index


White bread
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
Belgium
butter
Hundreds and Thousands
sprinkles

Media: Fairy bread
white bread
butter
margarine
Hundreds and Thousands
nonpareils
Hobart Mercury
Consumptive
Sanitorium
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
The Chaser
Google Doodle
smiley fritz
Hagelslag
Muisjes
Vlokken
List of bread dishes
"Bread and butter and hundreds and thousands"
"Christmas Dinner with the Toddlers"

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