RDOs Amigos: For the love of Hot Cross Buns

Hola y bienvenidos a RDOs Amigos!

This little column will deal with everything that happens on a day away from the selling floor and what I get up to. Que divertido, I hear you say! I promise, it won’t be as boring as I just explained it.

So on to today...

Today is Good Friday, the most important day of the Christian Calender. To simplify to a point of near sacrilege, it is a day we aren’t meant to eat meat or overindulge and go to mass a couple of times to mark Jesus dying (to spoil the rest of the story, he comes back…it’s ok). At the risk of incurring the wrath of god and every practising catholic, my favourite part of Good Friday is Hot Cross Buns.

A friend of mine once described her love of mushrooms as her “fetish for fungi” and I have to say, describing my love of Hot Cross Buns as a fetish, is completely apt. I can’t get enough of them. My appetite is insatiable when they are near. Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns…one a penny, two a penny…fuck the song. I need them now!

Anyway, this has got awkward…so let’s move on...

My partner comes from a family where the eating of Hot Cross Buns is nothing short of an event. They believe (and rightfully, might I add), that Hot Cross Buns should not be consumed before Good Friday. I mean, what IS the point of having them at any other time? Why not have some fruit toast…pretty much the same thing, no? The morning of Good Friday therefore involves sitting in the kitchen for a few hours eating buns until we are full...and by we, I mean I, until I am full.

Sitting down over our Hot Cross Buns this morning we discussed our preferences of Bun variety and the current trend of choc chip Hot Cross Buns. To say this is a hot button issue is an understatement.  What is the point of choc chip? Why bother adding chocolate to something that tastes good already? In my opinion I don’t care who the hell came up with it (I vote Cadbury had a hand in it), it needs to stop!

The other controversy of the bun is whether to get ones with peel, or without. I mean, peel provides a nice zing and bite to the bun, but it also runs the risk of overpowering all other flavours and making you screw up your face. If you go without peel you get the joy of having all the spices dance across your tongue without being trampled by peel, and get the unadulterated joy of the sultanas and currants.

However you like your Hot Cross Buns, I say enjoy, indulge (in correlation with your religious beliefs) and have a lovely Good Friday and celebrate the one day all retail employees get to have off!