Unpopular Opinion - Hot Cross Buns

Many people have an opinion about hot cross buns, those Easter treats which appear on Boxing Day and hang about like an unwanted cousin at a wedding. There are also so many flavours to choose from now. Gone are the days where you received your obligatory spice bun with a cross on top on Easter Sunday (with or without mixed peel). 

Checking the Coles app, you can currently get hot cross buns in the following flavours: 

• Traditional fruit 
• Fruit free
• Gluten free
• Apple and Cinnamon
• Chocolate Chip
• Arnott's Mint Slice (eww)
• Raspberry and Matcha
• Vegemite and Cheese
• Doritos (double eww)
• Arnott's Pizza Shapes (this is getting silly now)
• Coles Finest Luxurious Fruit (In wonder if they have mixed peel in them)

Woolies, not to be outdone, also has: 

• Caramilk
• Brioche Fruit
• Mudcake
• and Cinnabon whatever that may be.

See, I think this has all got a bit ridiculous. I reckon they should limit Hot Cross Buns to the traditional ones and maybe the choc chip ones - and if you're really lucky and swing by a Baker's Delight franchise, you might be lucky enough to get their Mocha Crack buns (seriously addictive).

These should be available from Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, 40 days before Easter, giving people something to give up, long for and resolve to miss. You can buy them and put them in the freezer, ready for Easter Sunday, and then you can enjoy them afterwards. 

But this hot cross bun availability from Boxing Day is just silly. 

As are all the stupid alternative flavours. 

And I know that many won't agree with me, but this is capitalism gone mad. Besides, there's probably not enough butter go around - because what's a hot cross bun without lashings of salted butter? (the real stuff, preferably French, never margarine.)

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