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Proud Pies 
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I just came back from Safeway and already they have Hot Cross Buns on display. I thought they may have renamed them seeing it's so far out from Easter, but no, they are called Hot Cross Buns
How damn ridiculous!
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jack_spain 
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Disgusting! Don't buy them. Call them fruit buns or whatever, but they are not Hot Cross Buns or Easter buns.
Are the Easter eggs out yet? |
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Dark Lord 
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Yum. Sell them all year round, I say.
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Presti35 
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Jesus!
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This story was on the Herald-Sun site on new year's day
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/shoppers-fuming-at-early-easter-eggs-sales/story-e6frf7lf-1225815349196
| Quote: | SUPERMARKETS have begun filling shelves with chocolate eggs more than three months before Easter.
Tesco and Somerfield in the UK are accused of pressuring hard-up parents into spending more cash just days after splashing out for Christmas.
Customers furious at seeing egg promotions so far ahead of Easter Sunday on April 4 have launched a series of online attacks.
One raged: "We celebrated Jesus being born on December 25 and just days later we're being sold chocolate to celebrate Easter."
Another fumed: "If people have Easter eggs pushed into their face then they will believe they need them and will buy, buy, buy.
"I'm sure no one is naive enough to believe that the supermarkets 'simply sell people what they want'."
A Tesco spokesman said: "A small selection of Easter eggs are on sale in response to customer demand." |
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stui magpie 
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Geez people are stupid.
If you don't want them, don't frigging buy them. If you do want them, then fine, but don't sook about it.
I agree that it's a bit rich having them out so soon but WTF, who cares. I've still got one in the fridge I was given last easter.
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David 
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| Dark Lord wrote: | | Yum. Sell them all year round, I say. |
John Simm clearly agrees.
Lol, I'm with Stui. Who cares? I wish they sold those awesome chocolate christmas puddings all year round too, they were great!
| Outraged Customers wrote: | | One raged: "We celebrated Jesus being born on December 25 and just days later we're being sold chocolate to celebrate Easter." |
And, can you imagine, being forced to buy chocolate, nay, Easter chocolate in January? I bet that furious customer just stared at his bag full of chocolate easter bunnies all the way home, put them in the fridge, then sat down at the table and had a good cry. And just days after celebrating the birth of Jesus!? Oh, the outrage.
(Is anyone else slightly concerned about people 'raging' in public about hot-cross buns? Should such people be roaming the streets freely? I sincerely hope that this is a specifically British phenomenon.) 
| Outraged Religious Leaders wrote: | Religious leaders also attacked the move.
Bishop Jonathan Blake, who presided over Big Brother star Jade Goody's wedding just weeks before she died, said: "It always seems strange when the public finds Easter being merchandised so soon after Christmas has passed.
"Perhaps it's felt that given we're in a recession, putting the eggs on offer earlier gives parents a chance to plan ahead and maybe buy an egg early and put it aside.
"But I still think people will find it strange." |
What an attack! Such aggressive language! "People will find it strange"? Ouch!
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pietillidie
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^LOL. I take it he gets that word directed at him quite a bit  |
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Proud Pies
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| David wrote: | | (Is anyone else slightly concerned about people 'raging' in public about hot-cross buns? Should such people be roaming the streets freely? I sincerely hope that this is a specifically British phenomenon.) |
David, this whole thread, started by me, was me 'raging' in public about hot cross buns being on sale days after Christmas. So your saying I shouldn't be roaming the streets freely?
From the religious perspective (not that Christmas and Easter have much to do with religion these days), they are highlighting Easter (the days Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead) only days after Celebrating Jesus' birth.
Doesn't make sense to me, but it's all about money.
Then they turn around and say that they are providing what the customer's want. I haven't seen anyone demanding that Hot Cross Buns, Easter eggs etc be put in the shops so soon. It's all about money!
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Fire Up 
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| apprantely customers wanted hot cross buns in the shops |
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luvdids
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Geez people are stupid.
If you don't want them, don't frigging buy them. If you do want them, then fine, but don't sook about it.
I agree that it's a bit rich having them out so soon but WTF, who cares. I've still got one in the fridge I was given last easter. |
ummm, possibly time to clean out your fridge...
But bring it on, I love them, I'm going to get some tonight. They should sell them all year, if for no other reason than to piss people off that aren't happy unless they're pissed off about something!
Yum yum. |
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BlackAndWhiteSince87
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I have to admit I'm one of those who would love them to be available all year round.I think I might have a hot cross bun addiction  |
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David
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| Proud Pies wrote: | | David wrote: | | (Is anyone else slightly concerned about people 'raging' in public about hot-cross buns? Should such people be roaming the streets freely? I sincerely hope that this is a specifically British phenomenon.) |
David, this whole thread, started by me, was me 'raging' in public about hot cross buns being on sale days after Christmas. So your saying I shouldn't be roaming the streets freely?
From the religious perspective (not that Christmas and Easter have much to do with religion these days), they are highlighting Easter (the days Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead) only days after Celebrating Jesus' birth.
Doesn't make sense to me, but it's all about money.
Then they turn around and say that they are providing what the customer's want. I haven't seen anyone demanding that Hot Cross Buns, Easter eggs etc be put in the shops so soon. It's all about money! |
I'm just making fun of the wording in the Herald sun article ('One [customer] raged: "We celebrated Jesus being born on December 25..."'). I'm trying to picture someone going apeshit over hot-cross buns during a newspaper interview, smoke pouring out of ears and all.
All this Easter paraphernalia (hot-cross buns, easter bunnies, chocolate) has only been about money for years now - indeed, I'm not overly sure that it was ever about anything else to begin with. I struggle to be overly offended by it all because, whatever people say, shops wouldn't stock these products unless they thought there was a reasonable demand for them. Of course, one could argue that in this case they are trying to create the demand by providing the products increasingly earlier, but even so it's hardly the most sinister thing happening in the world of capitalism at the moment.
If the crux of this issue is the commercialisation of religious holidays, then the horse has kind of bolted on that one - indeed, I even wonder if Christmas and Easter would exist today as anything other than small Christian festivals (on par with, say, Hannukah or Passover) if they hadn't been commercialised.
As for parents worried about their kids nagging them to buy stuff, there's always a solution: a jolly good spanking. (Of course, if I have kids, they'll be such cynical little bastards that this will never be a problem).
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Skids 
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I'm excited! I will be driving from LA to Vegas come easter! 88 sleeps to go. Bring on the bunny 
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stui magpie
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| luvdids wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Geez people are stupid.
If you don't want them, don't frigging buy them. If you do want them, then fine, but don't sook about it.
I agree that it's a bit rich having them out so soon but WTF, who cares. I've still got one in the fridge I was given last easter. |
ummm, possibly time to clean out your fridge...
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Ummm it's an easter egg. A hot cross bun would be slightly.......ragged after 10 months, there'd be more culture in that bun that at a Carlton AGM.
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