If Christmas starts in November when can you eat a hot cross bun?

Thanks for all the info! I shall do some dedicated research. Anyone with more details of hotcross buns please post them. I do want to do a thorough job

We did a taste test last year between M&S, Waitrose and Co-op and the M&S ones were much moister and fruitier. The Waitrose ones were surprisingly dry but we only tested the apple ones. Fortunately we can trot down the road and buy the M&S ones in the BP garage ?

I can't ever remember my mum buying them.
I don't like the fruity and spicy ones though.
My favourite are M&S chocolate hot cross buns and I bought my first pack last week. I've ate two and there's two in my freezer.
Marmite and cheese flavour sound nice. I'll have to have a look.

I only like the traditional ones

We eat them all year round.

Religion interfering with food .. why! ? so I would eat hot cross buns all year round if on offer. Had two packets already.

I eat them all year round. Had one yesterday. One of my favourites.

Well when at home as a child not until it was Easter ? but I’m now an adult and I’ve already had hot cross buns and a crème egg lol

Traditionally at Easter, but these days you can buy them all year round!

I am with MissAdventure whenever and as often as possible

OH was offered a Hot Cross Bun yesterday at DD's house and fell on it like a starving man. He loves them - I don't buy any as family always have them around Easter, I don't usually eat cakes (smug virtuous face) and if I had a dozen at home OH would eat them all in a flash, so he contents himself with handouts from others - poor man! I am saving his waistline as much as I can....

Our local Sainsbury's moved the Christmas breads to make space for the Hot Cross Buns the day after Boxing Day!
I love them but stick to ordinary teacakes during the year and save the HCB for Easter. Did try to make them one year, but not a great success .

I start pretty much as soon as they arrive in the shops. Recent experiences have taught me to live for the moment. Creme eggs on boxing day? Sure, why not.

Our supermarket has them 12 months of the year. It would be a pity to waste them, so I don't!

You can eat what you want when you want unless you are a stickler for tradition. I love sweet mince meat I make a big traybake mince pie with buttery homemade pastry all year. I am not a fan of hot cross buns or Simnel cake so I don’t eat them.

I remember a snippet on this theme in a Barbara Pym novel (set in the 50s IIRC and, like several of her books, featuring clergymen and women church workers.)

Someone asks (very tongue in cheek) what would be the answer in the Church Times to the question, ‘Is there any liturgical objection to eating hot cross buns on Maundy Thursday?’

Answer by clergyman in a very (jokey) prim voice, ‘We know of none, but we should not care to do so ourselves.’ ?

(I love Barbara Pym!)

My mum was a stickler for only eating hot cross buns on Good Friday but that was before they were available virtually all year round. I had a Blueberry Hot X Bun the other day and it was gorgeous - I could eat them all year round, a bit like mince pies!

Boxing day...... definitely boxing day....along with creme eggs......

What, exactly, is the difference between a hot cross bun and a tea cake? Apart from the cross piped on it and the packaging?

My mother used to make then on Good Friday morning, I still do most years, from the recipe she used..

I'm not very keen on anticipating 'festival food', it takes away the 'specialness' of it and makes what was an eagerly anticipated treat into a commonplace, But that's just my opinion and I really don't expect anyone to share it.

Today!

I buy them from Lidl , Aldi & Asda all year round . Prefer the Lidl ones , their really fruity , spicy & tasty , their lovely and scrumptious toasted with butter , I usually buy couple extra packs for the freezer so as don’t run out in between shopping. Why keep something so tasty just for eating once a year ?

Rosina

OH was offered a Hot Cross Bun yesterday at DD's house and fell on it like a starving man. He loves them - I don't buy any as family always have them around Easter, I don't usually eat cakes (smug virtuous face) and if I had a dozen at home OH would eat them all in a flash, so he contents himself with handouts from others - poor man! I am saving his waistline as much as I can....

...... I can hear him now "no,no I don't care, save yourself, I'll eat all the buns and I don't care how much pain it's gonna cause....... Just go....I have to do this alone....get to safety my darling......leave me and the buns to our showdown...." ????

We eat Hot Cross Buns soon as they are in the shops as we all love them !! I’m not a great one for “traditional” and would eat them, along with Christmas cake and pancakes, all year around !!

whenever you feel like it x I only buy them occasionally but why not ? they're only teacakes when all is said and done x when I was a child you only ever had them Good Friday , but you can find them on sale now all year x

I love the Tesco luxury hot cross buns, with lashings of real butter. DH and myself have one each with our mid-morning Baileys coffee

But in my childhood we only had them on good Friday too.