I everyone,
As I was walking through my local Coles store, I noticed that the bakery was stocking hot cross buns. I was at Coles on Monday the second of January, eight days after Christmas. My question is, how early is too early to stock hot cross buns?
My Anaconda don't want none unless you got (hot cross) buns hun
There is no too early. They are delicious!
Hot Cross buns should he sold all year round. There are people on the street with nowhere to live, unemployment is on the rise and house prices are through the roof.
Yet people are whinging about a scrumptious breakfast bun.
People need to get a life.
Scandalous!
any bargains?
We scored 1/2 price buns at Woolworths 2 Sundays ago. They stayed fresh, unrefrigerated, until we polished them off the following weekend.
I must've got the same ones as you although ours were eaten within a week.
It's not often I shop on the weekends but 1/2 price on more than a few of the bakery items due to product clearance has made me rethink avoiding Sunday night grocery runs. :)
I dont see the problem? Some people like Hot Cross Bun regardless of time.
The real question is, why is it not available every day of the year?
They are available all year round.
They are called fruit buns. To call them Hot Cross Buns, they just put that yucky flour and water cross on top.
I can never understand why they don't flavour the cross on top.
Flour on top of bread is good :)
sacré bleu….
Oh its just bread. Such is the harsh life we live that we argue if hot cross buns should only be sold during easter.
If it were up to me. These can be sold any time.
woolworths has got them too. saw them today.
but i agree with you, its meant to be an Easter thing so March should be the earliest.
I guess it depends on what hot cross buns mean to you. It in my view that it is a little odd to one day be celebrating Jesus' birth and then the next be reminded of His death. It isn't by any means offensive to me though and they are definitely delicious - to each his own.
If people didn't buy them, they wouldn't sell them so early.
All this outrage from people over such a trivial matter. Probably the same people who are spending up big in the lead up to christmas, and then spending up big again the day after christmas.
But that's ok.
They were selling them last year
As an atheist, I care not for Christmas or Easter festivities.
I am, however, happy to enjoy public holiday pay rates and delicious treats like hot cross buns.
If they were available all year round I see no problem. It's food. Man-made, processed food. Not a seasonal fruit with inherent reason for only being available for a short time each year.
Bring on the chocolate hot cross buns!
The best thing about being Atheist is the triple time!
Which one better Woolies or Coles chocolate cross buns? I found Woolies one marked with Cadbury one is the best.
yes! i remember one of them was significantly better… i think it was the coles ones :D
They wouldn't make them if people aren't buying them.
Who cares when they start selling hot cross buns…oh wait…nvm….
Now I want one…
My question is, how early is too early to stock hot cross buns?
Coles and Woolies wouldn't bother stocking them unless the buns were purchased.
So the real question is, why do people buy them?
The answers so far (from the comments) is that people like them
Exactly this. If no one buys them outside of the easter period then colesworth won't sell them outside of easter.
They are tasty. So why can't we have them all year round. So far no one here have put up a more persuasive argument not to have them year round.
Apparently they did at one time try selling fruit buns without the cross through the year in the past without success.
Firstly, why does it matter?
Secondly, if you don't like it then don't buy it.
Woolworths were selling them on Boxing Day.
I was going to say that I saw that they were on sale on Boxing Day, but I was beaten to it!
Beaten to the punch.
Yea I find it offensive . So yea everyone to their own. I am religious!
…and IMHO you are just as entitled to your opinion as anybody else here!
Yea I find it offensive . So yea everyone to their own. I am religious!
Well, in that case just don't eat them till Lent.
I won't !
Who cares, you don't have to buy them, someone obviously does.
They also sell poison, dead animal parts, magazines, birthday cards, Pepsi max. All are optional.
put them in plastic freezer bags and freeze them, to defrost when ready either then let them thaw or put them in the microwave "out of the freezer bag" for a minute or so until they come up like fresh, something a lot of people do not know is that fruit and sugar are the most natural presertive you can use.
another tip is to make sweetmilk for your cereals of a morning is to get a jar with a lid and fill it with milk then gat a reasonable hand ful of dried sultanas crush them on a plate then add them to the milk let the jar stand and put the jar in the fridge when going to bed and in the morning pour the milk with some of the sultanas onto your cereal and enjoy your sweetmilk do not add sugar.
This has been happening every year for at least 5 years, it is like saying, "Look the sun came up today, do you think it will come up tomorrow?".
Who cares, if you don't want to buy them, don't. Others might,
Easter eggs were also out on display at Target early last week. Fruit buns can be sold year round, what is the problem there? Just no need for the cross until Easter.
Is this a real question?
Hmn, depends on my stomach but it always says no because I'm lactose-intolerant.
My tongue and brain always says yes though…
:(