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Buns Banned

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doormat · 05/02/2006 15:17

Article in the sunday mirror today

A school has banned hot cross buns... for fear of offending non-christians
Younsters due to be served the buns for school lunch were given plain buns instead.
the head has stated she did not want to offend anyone...
The reverand has stated " this beggars belief, The school is quite wrong to act like this. All religions should respect eachother.I cant see a problem with serving good old hot cross buns to schoolchildren"
Suffolk council spokesman said" We have not issued any guidelines on hot cross buns, it is up to the individual school to decide what to do"

What do you think?????

PC gone mad or not

I am along the line that all religions should respect eachother

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bunny3 · 05/02/2006 15:19

fgs, how petty and ridiculous, pah!! PMSL "We have not issued any guidelines on hot cross buns"

Nbg · 05/02/2006 15:20

Hmmmm a bit much IMO.

I understand respecting others beliefs, I agree but it's going a bit too far.

Going on that don't have xmas trees.

foxinsocks · 05/02/2006 15:21

I'm just amazed that is in the mirror and not the mail

hana · 05/02/2006 15:22

this comes up every easter

hellsbellsdownunder · 05/02/2006 15:23

PC gone bonkers IMO.

snafu · 05/02/2006 15:24

Hahahaha at guidelines on hot cross buns.

If you were the spokesperson who had to come out with this stuff, wouldn't you just go home and cry quietly to yourself every night?

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 15:24

FFS! I didn't even know the symbolism behind them when I first moved here. I was just happy to see some sort of 'cinammon bun' here.

PC gone mad, methinks.

doormat · 05/02/2006 15:32

Before I bin the paper this was at
The Oaks Primary School, Ipswich Suffolk

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edam · 05/02/2006 15:36

The thing is, the sort of idiots who come up with this rubbish are always doing it because they assume that someone else is going to be offended. It's never, as far as I can tell, because a non-Christian says 'Oo-er, hot cross buns, can't be having them.' It's some daft sod with nothing better to do who is too stupid to realise that stuff like this is positively harmful. It creates resentment and gives political correctness - which should be nothing more than good manners ie not using abusive language - a bad name.

PeachyClair · 05/02/2006 15:49

Who are they going to offend? Buddhists consider all religions have a role in fulfilling an individual's route to enlightenment (infor from Buddhist nun on Thursday), Muslims consider Jesus to have been a Prophet- not THE prophet, but one nonetheless. Hindu's often have shrines to Jesus amongst their collections. Don't know much about Sikhism, but the sites I have read respect the parallels between the teachings of Christ and Guru Nanak.

So, who are they offending? Precisely?

Blandmum · 05/02/2006 16:17

Well, it would be blasphamy to an observan Jew to recognise Christ as the Messiah

gigglinggoblin · 05/02/2006 17:09

would be far better if they had something to celebrate all religious festivals right through the whole year. that way you are teaching tolerance of all faiths, rather than showing it is bad to have beliefs not shared by everyone - and how many beliefs are there shared by everyone? cant think of any tbh. surely they would have to ban stories where mummies and daddies feature incase they insult gay people or single parents. loads of other things i am sure are not so ridiculously pc in their school. utter madness

PeachyClair · 05/02/2006 17:13

Yes it would, although there are Messianic Jews and people classifying themselves as Christian Jews. However, do you need to acknowledge Chrsit as Messiah to not be offended by a Cross? I hope not, I'm a Humanist and it doesn't bother me.

cathyspam · 05/02/2006 17:20

i wonder how many kids know the significance of hot cross buns anyway!?

DominiConnor · 06/02/2006 00:51

Rather scary that someone could be that ignorant of western culture. Our calendar is based loosely on years after Christ was supposed to have been born.

The days of the week are named after gods, August is named after a Roman emperor who thought he was a god.
The use of 60 minutes is based upon ancient middle eastern numerology which was a religion of a style we see little of these days.

These aren't trivial things in the eyes of religious people. Any religion that gets control of a country is generally ruthless in eliminating such things, and Judaism, Christianity and Islam have cruel and unusual punishments for the observance of other gods.

Ties, beloved of those whose thought processes are simplistic enough to believe in school uniform are derived from making a sign of the cross. Note we don't see many Iranian leaders wearing them.

As for buns, I doubt there is any food that isn't forbidden to a good chunk of humanity. Most cakes in this country contain animal products...
Many refuse to eat things that have not been sanctioned by a committee of senior members of their faith. The fess they charge are not rake offs, no not at all, they just cover expenses.
Then there's all the stuff about when you are allowed to eat, and who with.

Fact is that if someone wants to be offended by something thre is absolutely nothing you can do to avoid it.
We're not Christians even slightly, but 2.0 makes hot cross buns, which are of superior quality, though ironically they are (presumably) acceptable to Buddhists in honour of my allergy to eggs.

tonton · 06/02/2006 15:32

As hana says, this non-story pops up every year. If I remeber trightly from some research into last year's story, a journalist had rung a school and asked if they were serving HCBs. They said no, he said, "Why?" and they saidf something along the lines thjat they are a multi-cultural school, plus at what meal were they meant to serve them?!
Can't believe the things that make it into the papers.

Dinosaur · 06/02/2006 15:35

Thought this was going to be something to do with hairstyles at first...like cod and her strictures about wearing fleeces and trainers on the school run!

madmarchhare · 06/02/2006 15:35

What?, no guidelines on hot cross buns?

JoolsToo · 06/02/2006 15:37

I'm just putting the finishing touches to me banner [rolls eyes]

VeniVidiVickiQV · 06/02/2006 15:39

Oh fgs. I wish the media would refrain sometimes.

Hausfrau · 06/02/2006 15:45

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georginars · 06/02/2006 15:48

I remember this story from last year....even sounds like the same school!

georginars · 06/02/2006 15:48

what I mean is, think it's media stirring TBH

starshaker · 06/02/2006 15:50

great does thi mean christmas will be cancelled so as not to offend

icklmum · 06/02/2006 16:36

rofl!!!

As if any child is gonna be offended over a piece of bread!

My ds would be more offended if he missed out on his yummy hot x bun!