Hmm, it seems to have worked. I'm betting the issue wasn't the words - more likely a technical glitch...

OMG! I shoud never be surprised at what people eat, and I suppose it has the same nutritional content as cinnamon toast, but OMG!

I'm not at all sure that that is what RLS meant:

Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;

That sounds very much like the bread of the fairies is only perceptible as the scents of the woods, and it's a metaphor, as in nourishment, not actual bread.

I mean, I get it that it was named after the rhyme, no issues there, but saying that Stevenson was referring to the Australian treat itself just bugs me.

Ha - I suspect the RLS reference may have come after the invention. There are many 'fairy' foods. And it's funny, but when I first saw the article headline, I was thinking of something else, from my old Winnie The Pooh cookbook - thinly shaved pieces of bread baked until crisp and slightly curled.

My search terms were 'fairy toast', FWIW 😜

Those pretty slices in the photo at the top of that article look like there's waay too much butter, if one is to believe the article. At first I thought it was cream cheese - or frosting 😄

LOL! I’m guessing toasting would spoil the color of the sprinkles. Most of them are royal icing. And they wouldn't stick well to hot butter if applied after toasting. And they'd fall off of cold toast when bitten. Stands to reason. A thick smear of butter for glue, on soft breads so as not to dislodge the goodies while biting sounds just right. I can't say I'm tempted to try it, but I get it. Eating sugar rainbows could make one happy. It's like a cupcake with buttercream and sprinkles in quicky from the pantry form. Like cinnamon toast!

FWIW, I was familiar with the Dutch/Scandinavian chocolate jimmies on bread thing, so using rainbow sprinkles doesn't seem too out there to me, but I prefer cinnamon toast. I don't like sprinkles and I'm not crazy about chocolate with bread either.

I did eat pain au chocolat croissants back in the 80s - haven't had that in decades tho.

Years ago a member here named Melanie sent me a swap box from the Netherlands and included a large box of those chocolate sprinkles. She said they were used as a toast topping. My girls were delighted, LOL, and it was a breakfast treat until that big box of sprinkles were gone.

I don't see why rainbow sprinkles wouldn't be similar, so it doesn't sound so weird to me.

Annie

One the one hand, the adult hand, Eeeewwwww. On the other hand, the kid side, I would have loved it.

On the one hand, the adult hand, Eeeeewwww. On the other hand, the kids side of me would have loved it. Also, whomever wrote the moderating program for Houzz is not all that adept, IMHO.