Iceland to sell hot cross buns without the cross

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...and replace them with a tick.

1/5 of customers who completed a survey said they didn't want to see the cross as the religious symbol for Good Friday.

That means 4/5 either do or don't care.

I'm not offended, just amused by the daftness of it. Somehow Hot Tick Buns doesn't sound so appealing especially when you associate tick with Lyme's disease!

I know that's where it it was derived from and how it entered the English language, but many people don't.

But it is the word that English-speaking people use for that particular time in the religious calendar.

Well you called always say 'What's ticked you off, I guess.😂

Easter was the pagan festival of new beginnings and re birth.

I think they should sell crossless HCB all the year round ,only bringing the ones with crosses on on the first of March.

makes them a special seasonal food , like stollen, or Christmas pudding

gives us something to look forward to in the depths of winter. “ Here’s your hottie mother, only 36 days to HCB day!”

I know some shops would try to jump the gun like they do with crème eggs, but I would make it a serious criminal offence to sell them early. I would also punish by flogging companies who sell abominations like chocolate HCB, and the one I spotted , I think in M and S who should know better, which was a strawberry and cream HCB. WTF?

Surprised you don’t just crucify ‘em.

I love Asda’s gluten free chocolate orange hot cross buns by the way they are amazing.

The giant chocolate hcbs in Sainsburys are the BEST THING EVER.

What traditions are being trashed?

Good reverse ferret there!

They won’t be hot cross buns, then. Why put anything on them? What’s wrong with plain currant buns?

Or they could call them Not Cross Buns. And add a smile.

I don't mind the cross at all, but I will happily eat an uncrossed bun if it raises Lee Anderson's blood pressure.

If your sense of identity is so fragile that it is threatened by what other people eat or don't eat, you might want to consider therapy.

Tick buns. Umm, doesn't sound very appealing.