To think Hundred and Thousands and Sprinkles...

[RabidAnchovy]

....are the same bloody things, DP informs me I have brought the wrong thing as he wanted 1000s and 1000s on the trifle and I have got sprinkles.

I think he wants to wear the bloody trifle

100s and thousands are the balls.

The silver balls I've got can still break your teeth and are too heavy to go up the hoover. I don't think I bought them that long ago.

"Not Dutch but have witnessed Dutch folks eating chocolate sprinkles on bread for brekkie. DH used to live there and has also seen it."

You write that as if it´s a really odd thing!

'Sprinkles' is a generic term for anything sugary and sprinkleable.

Hundreds & Thousands are the strands the little balls are Millions.

"Roll up, roll up, come and see the amazing, the astounding, the downright odd chocolate-sprinkles-on-bread eating Dutch people!"

Why put the sprinkles on the bread? Surely Nutella is easier?

Right...

Hundreds and thousands are the sticks. Sprinkles are the balls. Gobblers has the situation properly sussed.

And I'm reliably informed by my kiwi friend of Dutch extraction that small coloured things on bread and butter is called fairy bread.

Small coloured balls on buttered bread are a standard party food here in suburban Brisbane, Australia.

I looked and the first couple of times. Now I'm just .

I thought that Hundreds and Thousands were the sticks too, I don't remember even being able to buy the balls when I was a child.

You can still get Ice Magic here in Australia

I remember seeing a little film on children's TV about a Dutch child (part of a series about Children from Many Lands) where he ate hundreds and thousands on bread for breakfast and travelled to school on a boat on the canal.
My parents call chocolate vermicelli "mouse dirt". They have been known to do this in public.

Scone Ice Magic? Really?

I'm sure I've seen ice magic in tesco recently.

Gobbledegook - Millions are something else entirely, found in the confectionery aisle not home baking

This Sunday I will make Tiramisu and be done with it

Our ice cream sales man was found on the floor of his van covered in hundreds and thousands(or sprinkles)

Police say he topped himself

if I WANT SPIRNLES ON MY ICE CREAM I DON'T EXPECT 100S AND 1000S

I am very impressed that you have resurrected a zombie thread about sprinkles, it's such an important issue!

with CAPSLOCK RAGE and everything!

Check out this picture!!

Bloody brilliant thread!

Love hundreds and thousands, hate sprinkles. Sprinkles just don't do it for me, they're not crunchy.

Where do people stand on silver balls? Weren't allowed in my house as a child as they were dearer. Felt naughty whenever I had them at my friend's house!

mare 4am sprinkle rage - post-pub by any chance?

yabu , im with your dp , sprinkles are softer , hundreds and thousands are hard .

Ha ha ha ha yes Secret this is clearly VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!

Oh no Lala, silver balls are the height of luxury, my mum covered her cakes with Dream Topping, the balls would have looked totally out of place!

I've just seen Nigella decorate some fairy cakes with gold balls. I had no idea such a thing existed.

I know that I am late to this conversation but can I tell you that on my last trifle I put two, yes two, whole bags of crunchie nuggets on the top and it has now taken place in the culinary stuff of dreams that the family talk about.

I did have toothache for a few days afterwards but it was so worth it

Some are long and some are small and dotty. I can't remember which ones qualify as hundreds and thousands, though.

thebody

My Granny, who was the Oracle when it came to cooking, always called the little strands hundreds and thousands.

Vermicelli is a pasta, surely?!

There's also an Agatha Christie story from the 1920s that describes a murder committed by trifle :)

Ah I love 100's and 1000's and sprinkles. My adult children look at me like this if I decorate cakes with them now though.
I have small nieces so still sometimes get my fix :)