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Hot cross bun crisis

57 replies

Montypig · 03/04/2026 12:47

AIBU to eat another hot cross bun and deprive teens leaving them to starve in their beds ?

I took the dog out this am and the local bakery had hot cross buns newly out of the oven. I have just eaten mine with bacon and a cup of tea. Amazing

Summoned teens from their beds to say that it was ready.

Not a peep ( i know they are awake)

AlbU to eat the extra portions ? I fear that if I do they may stay in bed forever due to their feeble constitutions and lack of bacony, sweet salty norishment

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ItsSunnyTodayAgain · 03/04/2026 13:47

A hot cross bun with bacon?!!! 😲

Gowlett · 03/04/2026 13:51

Bacon. Hotcross Buns. What?
Pass me the cream cheese!!!
I need this in my life, thanks OP

frankie001 · 03/04/2026 13:53

Bacon hot cross bun are amazing!!

youalright · 03/04/2026 13:54

I'm sorry (not sorry) but you have hot cross buns toasted with loads of butter any other way is wrong. This is a hill I will die on

reversegear · 03/04/2026 13:56

I guess they are a bit brioche(ish) and I don’t think twice about bacon on pancakes with maple syrup, I may give this a go!

AgnesX · 03/04/2026 13:56

You snooze, you lose. Go on, have another (2) 😁

OttersOnAPlane · 03/04/2026 13:57

Freshly baked hot cross bun - not toasted.

Slightly stale hot cross bun - toasted.

I'm excited for the bacn revelation, but it's another 2 hours before mine will be ready.

tobysmouse · 03/04/2026 13:59

You snooze, you lose.

We have a pending crisis as we had a first round of cardamon buns this morning, but I've just realised there aren't quite enough for everyone to have a second one this afternoon and one person is going to have to go without.

PiggyPlumPie · 03/04/2026 14:03

BringBackCatsEyes · 03/04/2026 13:45

I got the last pack of proper HCBs in Tesco yesterday.
I am a HCB purist and only eat them on Good Friday.
It makes me cross when you can buy them aplenty from Christmas Eve, yet trying to buy them on Maundy Thursday is met with wide-eyed horror about leaving it too late.

Anyway, I have a pack of 6. It's just me and DS2 at home, but he's out until this evening. So.......it's gonna be a good afternoon for me :-)

Are you my mother? She will only eat HCBs on Good Friday and give you so much grief if you admit to eating them at any other time!

Mumdiva99 · 03/04/2026 14:04

Bacon and hot cross bun... I need to try this!! Sounds delicious.

Bestfootforward11 · 03/04/2026 14:08

You must eat them all. A mother needs to be well nourished in order to be her best self. The teens will benefit in the long term.

Damnloginpopup · 03/04/2026 14:09

You snooze you lose.

VenusClapTrap · 03/04/2026 14:10

Yesterday we ran out of hot cross buns - horrors! So I grabbed a bag as I was passing a bakery. This morning I went to the supermarket for cat food, and saw the HCBs there were on a two for one offer, so I bought two packets. Got home and the veg box had arrived - with a packet of HCBs on top that I’d forgotten I’d added to the order. Gone from famine to feast within 24hrs.

Clearly I now need to buy a whole pig too.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/04/2026 14:13

Oooh sounds good!

Chagula · 03/04/2026 14:16

Summerhillsquare · 03/04/2026 12:49

Yabvu to eat it with bacon!

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. HCBs with bacon are fabulous.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/04/2026 14:18

PiggyPlumPie · 03/04/2026 14:03

Are you my mother? She will only eat HCBs on Good Friday and give you so much grief if you admit to eating them at any other time!

My Dad is like that! It has to be at the same time in the afternoon too - and he’s not even Catholic!

BringBackCatsEyes · 03/04/2026 14:24

PiggyPlumPie · 03/04/2026 14:03

Are you my mother? She will only eat HCBs on Good Friday and give you so much grief if you admit to eating them at any other time!

Only if you are either a 27 or 17 year old male.
They mock me.

My Mother was the same. She is long gone, but I like to preserve her ways and she will know and scorn. It's a nice treat to have them once a year at the traditional time.

Montypig · 03/04/2026 14:37

Teens tidied their rooms !!! Its a bacon HCB miracle !!!

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Cerezo · 03/04/2026 14:41

Montypig · 03/04/2026 14:37

Teens tidied their rooms !!! Its a bacon HCB miracle !!!

This is the true meaning of Easter.

Isnt it weird that we use crosses to celebrate Jesus? Like it was a common execution method. If he’d been hanged would all Christian’s wear a noose? Can you make hot noose buns?

wearemorethanourboots · 03/04/2026 14:47

Our local bakery/deli is selling them with a slice of cheese (sone kind of fancy mature cheddar I think) in the middle. I was tempted!

Dollymylove · 03/04/2026 14:59

youalright · 03/04/2026 12:51

With bacon. That's so weird

I used to look after an old man who always wanted ham on a fruit teacake.i thought it was weird .....until I tried it 😃

Namechangereechangeroo · 03/04/2026 15:02

I have only one question... smoked or unsmoked?? 🔥✝️🐰🥓
I'm no bacon aficionado, but I do love trying new things! 😃

justintimeforxmas · 03/04/2026 15:03

I’m liking the sound of hot cross bacon combo. Will be trying tomorrow !
and no not unreasonable. If they can’t be bothered to get up they don’t get.

borntobequiet · 03/04/2026 15:04

Bacon? Just no.

Westfacing · 03/04/2026 15:06

Namechangereechangeroo · 03/04/2026 15:02

I have only one question... smoked or unsmoked?? 🔥✝️🐰🥓
I'm no bacon aficionado, but I do love trying new things! 😃

For me it would be smoked, streaky and crispy!