...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.

What the hell is wrong with him?!?!

Toaster with some butter and a cup of tea. About teatime or when I get home from work.

Not a sandwich and not a carrier for anything other than butter

I like them untoasted with a slab of butter in the middle. They also make outstanding French toast. Last year I made some, it took forever and was a load of hassle but they tasted amazing. I only like normal flavour fruity spicy ones.

I have had them for lunch but just buttered and toasted, not with any sort of filling.

Filled with cheese and eaten with crisps???!! Is your DH ok??! He sounds unhinged.

Filling a hot X bun with ham and cheese is definitely grounds for LTB!

I like mine as a snack or for breakfast

How am I in a 3% minority?! It's the same size as a sandwich! It's your lunch not a snack. And they are much better with cheese in :-)

Can't you tell the difference between sweet and savoury baked goods, do you have a very sweet tooth, or do you just not care?

I don't have a sweet tooth at all. It tastes like bread to me, not a cake. Cakes are not made to be toasted though - bread is!

I’ve ticked YANBU but it depends on my mood. Sometimes I’ll have them as my lunch, sometimes I’ll have the as something sweet after my lunch. The dc like them for an afternoon snack after school (& I might as well have the last one in the pack), especially if it’s been a cold & wet walk home.

earlydoors what about tea cakes then? They have cakes in the name (aren’t that different to a hcb) & are best toasted a la Little Chef in the 90’s.

Too sweet for me. I’d say they are confectionary.

Snack or surely an Easter breakfast.

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
WTF? LTB! Although you are also unreasonable as now I want a hot buttered hot cross bun and it's hailing outside.

Eww.. your husband is very unfair !
Only like them toasted with butter but we have them as a snack or breakfast

I'd eat them with cheese in as a snack 🤷

Krentenballen are eaten in the Netherlands with cheese/ham/salami and a hot cross bun is a good substitute here.

Don't knock it til you've tried it!

Bernards...

Tea cakes are made out of bread though! It's just a misnomer. You toast them because they are made of bread. It's bread with some currants mixed in.

@TrainspottingWelsh is quite right. Putting a cross on top of a blueberry/chocolate/caramel/any other flavour cake doesn’t make it a hot cross bun. It might be a tasty cake with a cross on it but it’s not a HCB. They are flavoured with fruit and spice ONLY.

I’ve always been firmly in the camp of splitting, toasting and buttering but I am tempted by the idea of cheese with one.

Really nice with cheese, in the same way fruit cake is!

But a croissant, crumpet, English muffin etc should also always come with cheese too.

I eat them warm, with butter and a hard boiled egg! Tis a local thing here in the North East. But only at Easter. Too soon as yet.

Are you sure... mum (and her lot) were Geordies and I never heard of that!

We have them for breakfast with jam on.

If you've never tried hot x bubs with cheese DO NOT knock it!

Bun n cheeeeese