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

Buy the liney ones and the bally ones and write

THIS FUCKING TRIFLE WILL POISON YOU, DH, YOU FERNICKETTY BASTARD

in morse code.

See...(sorry bored as waiting for op to update on old Korean lady post)

New controversy

Why does the first Waitrose pic have 's for plurals?
Is it not 100s & 1000s?

In case anyone hasn't posted-why the effing jeff are you putting anything like that on a trifle?
Philistine.

Well I think we should all email Waitrose and demand it be rebranded.

I too have remembered 100s and 1000s as coloured strands. I don't remember 'sprinkles' at all.

Cruikshank made me snort. I must have missed the memo when this changed, like I missed the one when fairy cakes became cupcakes.

there was a giant GIANT jar of 100s and 1000s on the Extra Slice bake off prog last night....I was pea green with envy

OMG I am having deja vu.
Bu maintain the position I have held for 2yrs 3 months on what constitutes a sprinkle.

Don't even get me started on the fairy cake/cupcake debacle, Pipbin. I tell you, it's the thin end of the wedge. One day they're fucking with the cakes, and the next thing you know they're making you eat black pudding made out of lentils.

And yes, enrique you are quite right about the apostrophes. 100's what? Ffs.

100s and 1000s - small brightly coloured ..... shape.
Sugar strands - small brightly coloured - shape.
Sprinkles - generic American English term for anything brightly coloured and sugary for scattering over desserts.

Buttered bread with either on top - fairy bread and no children's party is without it here (NZ).

Trifle should have grated large curls of dark chocolate on it in any case :)

Chocolate sprinkles for breakfast is definitely a dutch thing. They had individual serving size packets of them at breakfast when we took the overnight ferry to Holland. In Denmark you have Pålægschokolade to put on breakfast instead, less messy than sprinkles

Those lamenting the loss of ice magic, you can sometimes find Smuckers Magic Shell which is the same sort of thing in the supermarket.

cruikshank Thank You.
It's an abomination I tell you. Waitrose should be ashamed. Ashamed.

I've had those chocolate sprinkles in Holland. The hotel has them in tiny boxes at the breakfast buffet.

My mother used to decorate with glacé halves and chopped chocolate Flake.

Just watching Dad's Army and Pike was offering around a bag of Hundreds (see, no ') and Thousands when a loud bang interrupted proceedings. He jumped, spillage ensued and ...

it was long, thin and pale coloured strands that erupted from the bag.

So Dr whoever he is can get back behind the barricades - he'll never take us or our trifle decorations *

• for the avoidance of doubt

** he can keep his balls though [

Have no idea why I've invested in this as I hate trifle anyway

Well, there you have it - they are not only fucking with cakes, they are fucking with fucking Dad's Army! These people have no shame.

The brown lengths are not called strands or sprinkles or anything like that.
THEY are chocolate ants.
Everyone knows this. Or should.

And yes, the Dutch eat them and all sorts of other varieties of 100s and 1000s and sugar strands on their bread for breakfast. Never let your DC know this or they will demand you start an import company.

PS My godfather once decorated the Xmas trifle with a picture of the three magi (complete with camel, if my memory serves), made with glace cherries, nuts, angelica etc.

Never let your DC know this or they will demand you start an import company.

• or emigrate

I wonder if Dr. Oetker looks anything like Herr Flick? because if he does, I doubt Mary Berry would give him houseroom.

The funny thing is Cruikshank that I'm a veggi and the only thing I miss is black pudding. I'd welcome one made out of lentils.
I blame cupcakes for the obesity epidemic. One fairy cake used to be enough. They were much smaller. Cupcakes are huge!

100's and 1000's are FAR superior. I always feel Sprinkles are a bit common.

I agree MrsW.