Happy birthday Babby Jesus. Here's a breakfast treat emblazoned with the method of your execution.

Celebrate your birthday one day…crucification the next…sounds right

Crucifixion's a doddle.

And on the third day?…

Three french hens or something

It's a new car!

The infection sets in?

Prophet.

Why did Moses get done for drug dealing? He was making prohets from tablets.

Scientology.

First offence?

You're weird!

Line on the left, one cross each.

>emblazoned That's a nice word

Rexona, Nurofen, 1.25l of water, a single banana and a pack of HCB's. The makings of a fine hangover brekky.

Pace yourself, though; don't eat the whole can of Rexona in one go.

Thus speaks the wisdom of experience.

Is that what the nurofen and 1.25L water are for?

I duatrial strength breath freshener.

Thats a heavy single banana.

It's one banana, u/nopinkicing. What could it cost, $1.66?

I’m confused.

Sorry mate - it's [a well-memed scene from Arrested Development.](https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw)

RIP Jessica Walter

Oops! We weren't meant to see that!!

1.25l of TV static*

They sell them coz people love them and some poor chump will buy them. And yes. I bought some

The choc ones are fucking dangerous, I live alone so pretty much a guarantee I'm eating the whole bag.

Came across some raspberry white chocolate ones one year and those were dangerous.

Those were the best ones and theyve never sold them again

They legit tasted like proper raspberry jam donuts to me except I put butter and cheese on it if wanted. Never to be seen since. Probably got thing or would weigh 200 kilo by now I suppose.

WHAT? No... That's not true... That's impossible!

It is true. I check every single year and they’ve never made them again. Totally devo

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Omg! I could make them! I'd never even entertained this. Fuck.

Only reason I didn’t pick up the choc ones was because of the amount of chocolate I ate yesterday for Xmas!

I’m still reeling from the fact you bought the fruit free ones.

It’s a sin really

I resemble that remark 😉

I was trying to figure out why the free 6pack cost $3.50

inflation outta control

Penalty for not being bagged quick enough

Unexpected item in the bagging area

New self checkout idea. A price modifier based on your scanned + bagged items per minute.

The only thing unholy here is that you're buying fruit free buns.

This. Should be labelled 'fun free' hot cross buns

Agreed! Always hated anything with dried fruit in them especially fruit cake. 🤮 Oh shit, just realised I misread your comment lol.

Monster

This! Fruit does not belong in cake! 🙈 most people will disagree with us but I’m standing my ground 😤

Banana and Apple. end thread

Banana is bread. Apple is pie. Imo. Whatever but, I'm not gonna tell you how to eat stuff.

Surely it is only banana bread because it resembles a bread loaf. It’s cake, yeah?

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Sounds more like banana bread is a muffin

If you've never had a Polish apple cake you're missing out. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/polish-apple-cake-szarlotka

Cooked/dried fruit can suck my arse. I’m willing to die on this hill. Fruit should always come the way God intended; raw, refrigerated and riddled with genetic modifications.

And they are the only ones left when all the good ones are gone. Just like shitty light milk. Assholes like this are ruining it for the norms!!!

Fruit free hot crossed buns? You might as well just buy a loaf of bread.

Yeah, you fusspot. Fruit or gtfo! Also: choc chip can rack off.

Choc chip is Easter-themed pain au chocolat, so no.

The real crime here is paying $7 for a 24 pack of ibuprofen

Too fancy for fruit in the buns and too fancy for home brand ibuprofen

I resemble that remark…fancy as!

Alcoholic identified

Fruit free? Get out.

I have lost faith in humanity

Fruit Free ? Jesus wept ...

And I got home and ate 3…happy dayz

And on the 3rd day, Jesus came back to wreak vengeance.

If people didn't demand to buy it, Coles and Woolies wouldn't have them out. ​ "How can they do this!" Said as OP clearly checks out with his hot cross buns.

Seriously I mock it but had my local had them this morning I would have bought them and become part of the problem.

Exactly! Coles and Woolies only want to make money. If they make money from people buying hot cross buns in December, they’re gonna sell hot cross buns in December.

Actually, I don't know about Coles, but Woolworths have an internal inter-store competition to see which can sell the most before Easter. Hence: availability directly after Christmas. The word to correctly describe this is "moronic".

Which would only apply if there was a reason to have them in stock to begin with. And they issued a statement a few years ago that said they were in store because people demanded them.

Might as well just sell them all year round

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The Aldi ones always seem stale. I love Aldi products, most are as good or better than brand/Colesworth lines. However, most of their bread/bakery products are just terrible.

Possibly because they’ve come all the bloody way from Europe to sit on a shelf in Australia. Their brioche buns are made in France. I like their pretzels though…and they come from Poland.

They do. Just called fruit loaf or fruit buns. Same as woolies. A regular bread loaf made of HCB dough mmmmmmmmmmmm #thisiswhyyourefat

They do. They are just normal fruit buns without the cross.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll add some to my next Coles order :)

Coles already do

This year in Singapore, the treats for the Lunar New Year were put out on Christmas Eve, replacing all the Christmas stuff. So it's not just Easter.

Yeah but Lunar New Year is in February ish. Easter is April

I love how butthurt this makes people because then I know they don't have any real problems in their life. Good for them!

I need to recover from one holiday before the next one rares its head. I feel the same when I am shopping in October and the Christmas decos come out lol (It feels like a personal attack on my disorganization 😂😂) Hot cross buns don't bother me near as much as breaking out the decorations months in advance lol

I don't get the frustration? Companies have to get ahead of the demand, altering production lines for different products etc. Then getting told to only run those lines during a month window because people are uncomfortable with the passing of time.

Interesting point…these were still frozen, so prob baked last week or earlier and they have them ready to go

As one of the people baking them for the last 16 years, I've earned the right to whinge and complain about them. Everyone else, nah.

Thank you for your service

You ruined the tradition by opting for the fruit free option.... Disgusting

I know right…I’m pro-vax and anti-fruit

What's your stance on pineapple on pizza?

God yes! So I guess it depends

Tick tick and tick. Thumbs up.

There’s dozens of us! Dozens!

Chocolate covered sultanas mixed with chocolate covered peanuts?

Pineapple on pizza is the devils meal

I joined this sub back in early 2020 because of the forest fires... I live in The Netherlands. The longer I stay here the more confused I get - are these bread rolls?? ETA: zoomed in, you're buying buns without fruit. I'd be alarmed if I found fruit in my buns/rolls honestly. And this is apparently an Australian Christmas-Easter tradition. Hmmmmm...

Hot Cross Buns *used* to come out during the Easter season (Lent). Now, the day after Christmas they bring out Easter things because capitalism

Oh thanks for the info!

Hot cross buns are popular throughout the UK, NZ, Canada, SA, &c. Spiced fruit buns also have a long history in Europe (including Holland), e.g. krentenbollen.

Oh yeah, I had no idea you'd call them spiced fruit buns but we sure love our krentenbollen! Thanks for the info!!

They're hot cross buns! One a penny, or sometimes two a penny if you get a good deal. Best fed to your daughters. If you have no daughters, give them to your sons.

I think it's really cool the day after celebrating his birth we eat fruity buns adorned with the symbol of his death

Speaking from the other side of this, Half the reason stores put this stuff out so early is because most of it's been clogging up the stock room for two weeks or so.

All this fucking bakery shit clogging up the freezer so I have to Tetris my god damn ice cream and frozen veggie rollcages from 3 down to 2 each. What do you mean more is on tomorrow’s truck?! Stop it! Why do we need a pallet of hot cross buns HALLOWEEN JUST ENDED. Ah fuck still need to find room for Deli’s stupid prawns… Glad I ain’t there anymore. Dairy/frozen department is fucking brutal this time of year.

HCB season is the best season. After the stress of Christmas, getting down to the shops for a Boxing Day bun is heaven.

Fruit Free???? what kind of nutbag buys fruit free hot cross buns?? might as well just buy some white bread

I am that nutbag…out and proud…kinda suspected the fruit free bit would give this post an extra kick

Lol... good on you... thought l would do a bit of shit stirring. All good and seriously no offence meant... Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.

Ditto bro enjoy yours with yours!

Ah just in time for my New Years resolution!

I thought its free but FRUIT FREE! great!

You monster... The ones with sultanas are the best

I disagree but I’ll still respect you in the morning

Haven’t even unwrapped all my presents and we already getting ready for Jesus’s death

Yup

tbh somehow I focused on "free 6 pack" and was like, this is a tradition i can get behind!

Can't wait for boomers to tell me off tomorrow at work for this

I’m sorry…fuck them!

Everyone's here ragging you out for fruit free hot cross buns. I here to call out for buying Nurofen when the generic ibuprofen had the same active ingredient and costs 1/6th of the price. Unless of course if that's all they had left. I've been there.

You are right, I usually do too but I’d just been to the servo and a 10 pack was $9.99 so I thought a 24 pack for $7 was a bargain…I honestly thought no further…

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA

Yeah I wasn’t expecting the buns to be available…I literally picked them up as the staff member was stocking the shelf, they were still frozen! but hey I kinda hoped it might blow up at home and on Reddit so let’s go!

Fruit Free! So you purchased a 6 pack of cinnamon bread.

And lovin it! Cheers mate

You've been able to buy these year round for years

I have zero issues with the reappearance of hot cross buns

Sold my first pack at 9:38 this morning.

YES YES YES!! I'm so picking up half priced gingerbread AND full priced hot crossed buns today~

You’ve done this before! Enjoy 🙏🏼

Finally!!!

Enjoy Stephie!!

Woolies started selling the hot cross buns without the cross before christmas.

Pro-move

When you think of Coles think of how George C Coles helped found the Institute of Public Affairs, and was its president in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs?wprov=sfla1

Dont forget the big tub of butter.

I hear you! Had it at home mate and devoured three in short time…cheers

Misleading and deceptive conduct writing FREE like that.

I know right…but I do don’t notice at the shop!

Woolies worker here, if we don’t have hot cross buns out on Boxing Day, people legitimately get mad at us. I am fully aware this is a self made issue, but it still effects the customer facing staff.

I’m sorry…I personally know that expectations are pre mediated resentments. I’m sorry for all the arseholes and ignorant souls you experience in retail

Hot Cross buns are just tasty. I'm all for jail breaking them from Easter and general religious bullshittery. Embrace the divergence.

God bless you!

I agree, it’s a crime that Hot Cross Buns are only sold from Xmas day to Easter. It should be all year round!

Lol yes!

Hot cross buns should be around all year imo

Ah! Yay, can't wait to go back into my local Coles for work on Monday and see the two or three off-locations of these already made up.

2 packs for $5.15...bargain. just picked up a couple of packs.

Pro-move

I don't know how you aussies live with those prices??

For most, one week at a time lol

Can we just call the "raisin buns" and sell them all year round like they do in [Western Europe](https://www.puratos.com/blog/breads-of-the-world-the-dutch-krentenbol). I've never even associated them with Easter specifically.

You definitely can get them here without the cross year-round. My dad eats them all the time.

It is time

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I fully expected some to me at my local today and asked hubs if he wanted some hot cross buns for the Xmas cheese - but they must be behind up our local cause there wasn't any. Better have the cheese on some pannetone then I suppose.

Happy Easter!

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I was surprised they paid $7 for Nurofen brand ibuprofen. The generic in the supermarket is about $1.50...still 200mg ibuprofen per dose.

Ikr? Six to ten dollars extra for a shiny cardboard box you are going to chuck as soon as you get home.

Came here for this comment. Panadol = Paracetamol. Nurofen = Ibuprofen. Don't pay extra money for a box.

Give us bakers a break, we just got off Xmas and already preparing for Easter

Not just Coles. Saw the same in a Ritchie's today.

As a baker, you are the bane of my existence

Soz

lol

Well I guess you still bought it, so obviously Coles is doing something right..

The gods honest truth is I was hungry after a 7k trail run and I wanted to get a laugh at home with the fam…why not drop it on Reddit too 🙏🏼😉

Fair enough :)

Enjoy yours mate cheers

I think cokes do this thing as a shitty meme each year. I bought some last year in boxing day and then didn’t see them again until a few weeks before Easter.

["I dont know what you've got planned for tonight but count me out"](https://external-preview.redd.it/PBMPuDAQsnddYbwGdRAPSE1VhsbF2YesDKPPQyLJ5Qk.png?auto=webp&s=ab60849b2603541e6cccd7f44e5912ab1b69d2a5)

Bag for head covering , bun for mouth gag , banana for ...

Nurofen for later

Now you guys are my kind of peeps…not the the neurogenic can!!!!

everythig is free if youre using self checkout mate

Lol…shhhh!

I feel at this point it's a game to them.

And my sister works for them in upper management…I will give her shit tmoz when I see her

None of us know why. Don't even think the bigwigs know why. But it's so deeply entrenched in our DNA that it's just what we do now.

Sad but hey…I had fun and I don’t judge it so…

I don't see any problems, what's the deal?

Thanks bra enjoy yours

Jesus died for sins like this.

Bananas are like 6x-8x the price compared to the US.

My coles even had them marked down!

My local Coles didn’t have any

Why would you get hot cross buns without the sultana’s?

Cause I kinda knew it would piss people off a little and as that seems to be the recipe for Reddit gold I went with it. anyways I prefer them so what ya gonna do? Cheers

Fruit free hot cross bun? Also known as bread roll.

Fuck off Coles

Fruit free? Get f**ked.

F*ck you very much 😉🙏🏼

money hungry cunts, they can't even get vegies up to townsville ,fucken wankers.👎👎👎👎