Hands off our fairy bread! American sparks outrage with his VERY unusual twist on the classic Aussie treat
- Oklahoma father-of-three Beau Coffron made a remixed 'fairy bread sandwich'
- He used peanut butter and sprinkles instead of dairy butter and 100s and 1,000s
- Mr Coffron posted a video recipe to his popular TikTok account Lunchbox Dad
- But Australians didn't take kindly to the recipe, with one calling it a 'war crime'
An American father has outraged Australians with a recipe for a 'fairy bread sandwich' with peanut butter and sprinkles instead of normal butter and hundreds and thousands.
Oklahoma father-of-three Beau Coffron posted a video of the controversial recipe to his popular TikTok account Lunchbox Dad last month.
The video has since amassed more than 800,000 views and more than 3,000 comments - many of which are from angry Australians.
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Father-of-three Beau Coffron (pictured left with his wife) posted a controversial recipe for a 'fairy bread sandwich' (pictured right) with peanut butter and sprinkles instead of dairy-based butter and hundreds and thousands to his popular TikTok account Lunchbox Dad last month
In the recipe video, Mr Coffron begins by cutting the crust off two slices of white bread and spreading peanut butter on one slice.
'Here's how to make a fairy bread sandwich, these originally became popular around New Zealand and Australia. They use butter, I like peanut butter,' he said.
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'So spread that peanut butter on, then you're going to want to dump some of your favourite sprinkles on top.
'Take a cutter and cut out your favourite shape, hearts and stars both work well, throw that top piece on. Put it on a plate, serve it to your kids and you're done.'
Mr Coffron cut the crust off white bread and spread peanut butter (left) before adding sprinkles (top right) and cutting out a heart on a second slice of bread (bottom right) and combining the two to make sandwich
But Australians did not take kindly to Mr Coffron's Americanised version of the classic from Down Under, which dates back to the 1920s.
'Fairy bread has hundreds and thousands, NOT sprinkles. Huge difference. This is a peanut butter and sprinke sandwich. NOT fairy bread! FAIL!' one person wrote.
Another person commented: 'This is a war crime.'
'Oh God. NO NO NO,' one viewer wrote.
'One, never, and I mean never, use peanut butter. Two, the circle sprinkles not the long sprinkles, they go soggy. And three, they're single slices,' another user said.
Australians left many comments on Mr Coffron's video, pointing out the flaws in his version of the recipe
Mr Coffron may not be familiar with the name hundreds and thousands since the round sprinkles are known as 'nonpareils' in the US.
Meanwhile, the father's use of peanut butter represents a key difference between Australian and American palates.
Fairy bread is traditionally served cut into triangles at children's birthday parties in both Australia and NZ.
The first recorded mention of fairy bread was in the 1920s in the Hobart Mercury, which described kids eating the colourful food at a party.
Mr Coffron (left), his wife (right) and their three children (centre)
