vanilla slice

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Noun

vanilla slice (plural vanilla slices)

(Britain, Australia) A snack similar to a mille-feuille, consisting of a layer of vanilla custard or cream between two layers of pastry.
- 1941, Studies from the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories and School of Hygiene, University of Toronto, Volume 12, page 852,
  Strain 1162 was isolated from a vanilla slice that was incriminated in a second outbreak originating in the same bakery, six weeks after the first outbreak.
- 1978, Association of Public Health Inspectors (UK), An Examination of the Bacteriological Quality of Retail Vanilla Slices, Environmental Health, Volume 86, page 67,
  One hundred and thirty-three vanilla slices, purchased from shops in the County of West Yorkshire, were examined to determine the numbers and type of bacteria present at the time of purchase.
- 2003, David Philip Reiter, Liars and Lovers, Interactive Press, Australia, page 197,
  She passed the answering machine as she brought over a tray with the coffee and a vanilla slice that she′d divided unevenly.
  ‘Homemade?’ I asked, as she handed me the larger portion.
- 2011, Vicky Daddo, Meeting My Renaissance Man, Stephen Thompson (editor), Mythic Resonance, Specusphere, Australia, unnumbered page,
  ‘Vanilla slice,’ he said, his voice directed at the glass cabinet. […] I pulled back the tray with the vanilla slices and he ducked down like a meerkat on sentry duty.
- 2012, June Whyte, Muzzled: A Kat Mckinley Greyhound Mystery, Untreed Reads, unnumbered page,
  Leaving Lady Margaret to do battle with the bookies, I bought myself a country-baked vanilla slice. The biggest, mouth-watering vanilla slice I′d ever laid eyes on. Then, cake clutched in both hands, face sticky with creamy custard—not the chewy rubbery custard found in store-bought slices—I wandered over to the catching pen in readiness to catch Ben′s dog at the end of the race.

Synonyms

cream slice, custard slice, Napoleon slice
snot block (Australian slang)