"fairy bread" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi, unnumbered page",
          "text": "‘I was a fairy-bread hogger at parties,’ he told me seriously, his eyes immediately changing. ‘I used to put them in my pockets or hide them wherever I could, until one day I was exposed when my host handed me my parka and four slices of fairy bread fell out. I was seven years old and up till this day if I ever see fairy bread I palpitate and realise that psychologically I will never be cured.’\nI laughed at his theatrics and took the Tim Tam he offered me.",
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          "text": "I notice that the rest of the party food has just about disappeared. All that is left are a few puddles of congealing tomato sauce, a couple of smashed meringues and the dried-out crusts from fifty-odd triangles of fairy bread.",
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          "text": "Robert cleared his throat. ‘Um, one of the airline hostesses took a shine to Jack and made him some fairy bread. You know, bread with hundreds and thousands? He was pretty happy with that’.",
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "snack",
          "word": "彩糖麵包"
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          "roman": "cǎitáng miànbāo",
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