To be completely demoralised by hot cross buns?

[madeyemoody]

Been shopping earlier this week and noticed hot cross buns/mini eggs/crème eggs at the end of an aisle as a display in Morrisons, instantly made be furious, then again today in Tesco shelf's of hot cross buns in the bakery.

Give us a break please, I haven't even been paid since 20th December and still have until the 28th to be paid again. I'm absolutely skint from Christmas. Used £100 of savings to put the heating on with £280 already expected to come out of my pay for electric. And these greedy bastard have already started with the Easter shit. Its not even the end of January and all ready the Easter prep is starting.

It's exhausting. I'm so low right now, so broke with so many house problems adding up. Seeing those hot cross buns has sent me west. It's just relentless right now. And Tesco was freezing. Freezing. The poor workers were freezing why? It's a billion pound company and they've turned their heating off?? Because the greedy greedy bastards don't want any losses even at the detriment of their staff. Honestly feels like end of days in the UK right now.

AIBU? Or is seeing Easter stuff in January an absolute screw you to the average struggling Brit.

They seem to have skipped over a holiday, surely it's Valentines Day first? I like all the seasonal stuff as it gives us something to look forward to. The dc seem to plan their lives by what consumerist crap they can guilt me into buying next. Today is Chinese New Year so I'm off to search for a lucky waving cat after breakfast 😁

I like having little celebrations to punctuate the year, it doesn't have to be expensive - few chinese dishes tonight for chinese new year, pancakes soon for Shrove Tuesday. Annoyed that once again I forgot rubber duck day, that really should not be in January. I personally am not quite into hot cross bun territory but I do not begrudge those who are. I do though appreciate how hard it is going through January, hopefully not long until pay day.

@Squamata of course I am 😆
I am just so sick of these huge companies with millions of pounds worth of profits relentlessly pushing consumer spending.
I get it, they are a business, its what they do!
I work full time, I don't have time to go to multiple shops every day so I use supermarkets, I dislike a great many things about them though.

I know what you mean!
Not enough time to recover from each expensive event! There doesn't seem to be a "normal" month does there.

I thought the same. We usually host a dinner for few people and get some easter eggs in and it's pretty cheap since no presents need to be sorted.

@LittleLantern123 me too - I hate supermarkets but have no time to go around small shops. I've ended up just going with deliveries from a supermarket I find least offensive (Sainsbury's) I think Tesco, Asda etc are pushier.

Supermarket promotions have a huge role in the obesity crisis, they're too powerful and greedy - but they also facilitate my lifestyle tbh as I don't want to be walking to smaller shops like a 50s housewife. Dunno what the solution is.

We didn't even do an Easter lunch overseas, just a hunt for children (a boxed egg and a bag of hunting eggs) and some hot cross buns. New winter pyjamas were a thing, but children need them anyway.

I’m happy, galaxy enchanted eggs are in shops again. That is me sorted. I just bypass it all and keep an eye on the bigger eggs for deals and to find the tastiest.

@Squamata I have no solution, I think they are just part of the hamster wheel of life.
It's a shame though!

Yup I hate it. The whole point of traditions like this is that they give shape to our year and something to look forward to. As it is it just makes me resent these occasions. From sept to apr, Halloween, bonfire night, Xmas, valentines and Easter seem to roll into one long spend fest. I breathe a sigh of relief in may!

I can remember as a real treat going off Good Friday morning with my little friend to buy the hot cross buns from the bakery. That was over 60 years ago mind you. But we did have things in perspective in those days.

I'm a heathen but I love the cheese and chilli hot cross buns that M&S had in last year...

This really made me laugh for some reason.

I love easter chocolate, creme eggs are my absolute favourite and getting some on Boxing Day helps me get over my post Christmas sadness! It’s just the way retail works though OP, you don’t have to buy anything just yet.

Easter isn’t a big expensive thing in our house, just a few eggs for the kids and some for an egg hunt! We usually go on a cheap U.K. break and enjoy the long weekend. I don’t think it has the same pressure as Christmas.

If it was illegal to stock them until March 1st tho, you wouldn't have that.

If I rule the world then:

New Year Sale - 1st-31st January.

Valentine stuff - 14th January - 14th

February. Sale stuff allowed out until end of February.

Easter: 26th Feb for 2023. 6 weeks before Easter dep on the rolling date, sale stuff for two weeks after.

Back to School Stuff: 12th August until end of Sept

Halloween: 1st Nov - 31st Nov. Sale stuff for 1 week.

Christmas: 6th November. Christmas Sales from 27th rolling into NY sale.

Other religious or cultural celebrations get max 6 weeks too, so Diwali, Chinese New Year, Eid etc.

Hot Cross Buns in January is nothing new. Just don't buy them, or if you have a reasonably convenient option, shop elsewhere and make your feelings known to the company (please don't take it out on their staff).

Why waste all that fury? The big supermarkets are full of stuff I am not going to buy, I manage to ignore it all without going into a rage. I like hot cross buns but I generally only buy them in the three weeks or so leading up to Easter and ignore them the rest of the year, just as I ignore all the Christmas stuff that starts appearing in October.

This. I love it when supermarkets start having pots of the tiny daffodils and other spring plants on racks by the door. I love HCBs ...the smell of them toasting...the butter oozing...the toasty crunch. Joyful, uplifting and usually cheap from morrisons. I love all the Eastery crap in shops like The Range. I don't buy it because I have lots of it from years ago. I am looking forward to hiding the little plastic eggs (with sweets hidden in) in the garden for my grandson . I have kept them from when I hid them for my sons. The days are getting a but longer, our oil tank probably has enough in it to last until April and things will get better.

Your expression of anger at corporate greed while you and so many others are struggling is totally understandable.

Please don't take it out on the HC buns though. They are pretty affordable as a breakfast item and so delicious.

No, the wonky whitish lines remind no-one of an imaginary massive wooden cross with metal nails in and a dying person bleeding out all over it. If it does there's kind of something wrong with you.

Anyway, Elizabeth the first passed a law that they were only allowed to be sold at Easter and Christmas, but they were so popular everyone ignored it and it was rescinded, so OP you are historically inaccurate and should whinge about something else instead.

‘No, the wonky whitish lines remind no-one of an imaginary massive wooden cross with metal nails in and a dying person bleeding out all over it. If it does there's kind of something wrong with you.’ 😃

Ooh yes louderthan.
I made a marmite and cheese hotcross loaf.

I never thought to put together crucifixion and hot cross buns. I thought it was just logical shaping. It's just logocal to do cross rather than lines😳

I cannot assist you in your anger, I can recommend the Apple ones from Sainsbury's though which are yummy.

Creme eggs were out before Christmas, I put some in my daughters stocking 😆