...to think a hot cross bun is a snack?

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I just love them. Buttered and sandwiched back together or toasted and buttered. In place of a cookie/crisps/slice of cake as a snack. DH thinks they’re a sandwich alternative and should be filled with cheese or jam and eaten with crisps/fruit etc as part of a meal.

I will only eat them with lots of butter and lemon curd. However, I have yet to have one as I have a self imposed rule that I will not eat them until the 1st of March (I have no idea why!) I will not let a mince pie cross my lips until the 1st of December either!

Go to Bermuda if you think cheese is grim. They are eaten there with fish cakes... This tastes about as good as it sounds 🤢

Butter all the way!

Next to crisps? Good god no, we are not animals. Toasted with butter and a sharp cheddar? Yes please!

Technically...... They're revolting ;)

But definitely a revolting snack and not revolting meal.

They're vile and should be abolished

Your husband is definitely the unreasonable one! 😁

They are all a massive disappointment these days, not like they used to taste warm and sticky from the baker's. Supermarkets have destroyed them - and there are some disgusting ones out there. Toffee, chocolate, that is not a hot cross bun. Not even when reduced to 10p a packet!

Normal ones, toasted with extra mature cheddar.

But I eat cheddar with fruit cake too.

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Hot cross buns with cheese......YES. Bloody lovely!!!

I reckon I could eat at least 4 at once. With a pack of lurpack

Your DH is BU, not you!

Tbh I can't see how eating them with cheese or jam could make them taste any worse than they already do.

Cheese- I actually want to be sick at the thought of cheese and hot cross bun together

Please no, I don’t think I could be someone like that

On another note added them to my shopping list this week...

When I was growing up they were pretty much just for breakfast on Good Friday morning - toasted and buttered, of course.

Now they've essentially just become a fancy teacake - which should also be toasted and buttered but can be eaten for elevenses, with tea in the afternoon or supper. Or any time really. But

It depends on their size, what's in them and what you put on them.

I had the M&S chilli and cheese ones

Whatever it says on the label, and regardless of whether they're nice or not, hot cross buns are not savoury. Or chocolate, or toffee. All these newfangled variations are just buns. Hot cross buns are sweet, spiced and usually have sultanas or raisins but nothing else.

And anyone who doesn't toast them.... the 'hot' isn't optional and doesn't mean chilli.

I had the M&S chilli and cheese ones

Why does this exist? Who at M&S was responsible for this culinary abomination?

I like them toasted or un toasted with butter. Also nice with jam, Nutella or thick honey.

I think a wee bit of dark chocolate is quite nice in them, so long as they have the traditional spices and dried fruits. Chilli is just weird though.

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you can have a hcb for breakfast, elevenses, afternoon tea, pudding at lunch or supper (but not part of the main) or as a separate snack between meals. but
(a) adding cheese is a vile travesty, the best combo is to lightly toast, spread with salted butter and strawberry jam, but don't sandwich back together.
(b) they shouldn't be eaten before Palm Sunday.

We had two buttered HCBs for lunch on Saturday 😊

They are lovely with cheese on. They're basically bread impregnated with pickle, you don't know what you're missing.

That said. HCB&cheese is still a snack, not a meal and jam is a big no.

They are a snack, not a meal.