To be furious about these ‘hot cross buns’

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I’m watching what I eat at the moment and managed to resist all the Easter eggs at the supermarket, however I picked up a pack of four hot cross buns resolving to make them my one and only Easter treat. Imagine my fury and disgust to find that they are in fact chocolate chip and salted caramel hot cross buns! - I like chocolate, I like genuine salted caramel and I like hot cross buns. The combination of all those things, especially with the ‘salted caramel’ clearly being a horrible synthetic flavouring, is so disgusting that I’ve had to throw them all away. Except for the one that I ate to be completely sure that it was definitely disgusting.

AIBU?

YANBU. They are not hot cross buns.

Yes. They are my favourite, you should have given them to me.

You are most definitely not being unreasonable.
Salted caramel is awful and has now basically ruined your easter.
I would be in a proper strop if I were you OP, and I'd probably flounce off and stamp my feet

Supermarkets have had these for a few years now. Not new. Next time just take two seconds to check what you are buying. Or do you just fling things in your trolley without thinking?

My DH bought these for me! I ate one and enjoyed the salted caramel it but agreed with you- very very sickly

Tesco tried to substitute my hot cross buns with berry hot cross buns yesterday. They went straight back. Don't mess with hot cross buns!

I narrowly avoided buying something similar in Tesco the other day.

Such abominations should carry a warning in large red writing.

A good hot cross bun is a wonderful thing, they do not need to contain chocolate and other sundry stuff (not envy).

I feel your pain.

Fucking hell. If it LOOKS like a hot cross bun, it bloody well should BE a hot cross bun. Not some gussied up wannabe with NOT HOT CROSS BUN ingredients. Salted bloody caramel has no place masquerading in hot cross bun clothing. I would have been devastated too OP.

Except for the one that I ate to be completely sure that it was definitely disgusting

YABU. Hot cross buns are the food of Satan. Anything that improves them, like substituting chocolate, is a good thing.

Anyway, perhaps it will teach you to be more fastidious when checking labels in future.

You should immediately go and buy some more. What treachery was this?!

An outrage!!

Not you are a hot cross hun.
Ha!

(That is the very first and the last time I will use that word😂)

How obviously not not.

I bought some by mistake too. They're the work of the devil

Now. I give up with bloody autocorrect

I have to admit to a fondness for the dark chocolate and orange ones Tesco did last year....haven't seen them this year though 😐

YABU to be furious.

You should be incandescent with rage at the very least. Maybe with a bit of utterly incensed on the side.

And you haven't named and shamed the offending supermarket which is another thing that reflects very badly on your character.

YABU. Hot cross buns are rotten so anything that can possibly improve them can't be a bad thing.

Hilarious post Starch

I was adventurous and trialled an abomination of a flavour. Never again.
If it walks like a hot cross bun, talks like a hot cross bun, it doesn't always mean it'll taste like one...

YANBU. They are not HCBs they are pap with a pastry cross on them. Buy some very fruity spicy ones and enjoy them.

This is why no good can ever come from avoiding chocolate. Hard lesson to learn...

But yanbu. I ordered a pack of hot cross buns. Got subbed with said salted caramel buns. No one was happy(I don't like any)
Then I got caught out in the shop and absent mindedly picked up a finest pack not realising they've messed with them also and ended up with mango and papaya. Sad days again.

YABU, a true HCBer does not discriminate according to HCB variety!

HCB ( X ) HCB

YANBU. Hot Cross Buns have cinnamon and a few other spices and that's it.