Phrases & SayingsFood and drink
dandruff cake
A lamington.
In a sentence
Nan still calls a lamington a dandruff cake.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre records dandruff cake = lamington; independent Australian conversational evidence uses the exact phrase, while older food recollections independently connect lamington coconut with dandruff imagery.
- Initial era
- 2000–today
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established