Hot cross bun

They just decide whatever you sing, and they like, "All right."

Yeah, you just hand me a recorder and teach me Hot Cross Buns.

That is not music.

Give me that stick and that little wood thing with the ridges.

I know no one's thinking about hot cross buns, but this is the time that we need to be thinking about hot cross buns.

We're going to get ahead of the hype cycle here and think about what delicious novelty hot cross bun flavours will be in our toasters and under our grills and in our microwaves and in our mouths in 2027.

Oh, and if you haven't noticed, yes, my co-host Ben isn't here today.

He's taking a bit of a break from the podcast, but I'm going to do some scientific and rigorous analysis in the meantime.

Now, side note, of course, I'm talking about supermarket level hot cross buns.

I know there are amazing bakeries doing incredible novelty hot cross bun flavours, but I think there's something interesting about what the big dogs, Coles and Woolworths, deem delicious enough, on trend enough, or despicable enough to release to the masses nationwide.

So to start, we need to go back.

and analyse the hot cross bun novelty flavours of the past few years, and then I will make some predictions.

And that's a wind instrument, so it doesn't even matter.

But I can play a mean Hot Cross Buns.

Right? If you know, you know.

Yes.

And at a certain point, you start to look at the coach, right? We talked about that earlier.

And why does he not get the same smoke that some of these other coaches? Why is his seat – remember when you start playing an instrument, Rob G, and the first song they teach you is Hot Cross Buns? Why – it's got to be toasty.

His seat needs to be hot because it's not fair to other teams who have done either more and maybe gotten further or have had more success or similar at least, and they're either fired or on the hot seat.

And Matt LaFleur gets to, oh, well, gee golly shucks.

The loaves are round, like cakes, and have a cross upon them, such as our cakes bear, which are broken and eaten on Good Friday morning, symbolical of the sacrifice of the body of our Lord.

five of these cakes explanatory of the scene are arranged beneath an arch-shaped table at which recline five people while another with a basket full is occupied in serving them the cakes are so significant of the bread of life that one might almost regard the repast as intended to prefigure the sacrifice that was to follow and the institution connected with it having from the earliest period of memory cherished a particular regard for hot cross buns and all their pleasing associations it was a source of gratifying reflection to see my old favourites thus brought into intimate association with the pious thoughts of the primitive christians and to know that at home we cherished an ancient usage on good friday which the more catholic nations of europe no longer observed but alas there is always some drawback to our full satisfaction in this world and knowledge is often a cruel dissipation of favourite convictions my faith in the christian biography of these buns has recently received a very rude shock it would appear that they have descended to us not from any popish practice as some pious souls affirm but from one which was actually and like the word which we use to signify the great festival of the church easter to a paganism as ancient as the worship of astarte in honour of whom about the time of the passover our pagan ancestors the saxons baked and offered up a particular kind of cake we read in jeremiah seven seventeen and eighteen seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem the children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead their dough to make cakes to serve the queen of heaven See also Jeremiah 44, 18 and 19.

Dr. Stukely, in his medallic history of Valerius Carousius, remarks that they were assiduous to need the Easter cakes for her service.

The worship of a queen of heaven, under some significant name or other, was an almost universal practice, and exists still in various parts of the globe.

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brought to you by the Advocates, injury attorneys at advocatesoflaw.com. Today is National Hot Cross Buns Day.

Is that the, like, you learn to play that on the recorder? Hot cross buns, right?

Well, there's that, but I think it means hot cross buns as in the buns that are, you know, like the cross on the top of the buns, you know?

That's what a hot cross

bun is? Yeah.

Am I wrong about this?

I had no idea.

National Hot Cross Bunday.

I don't even know how the song Hot Cross Buns goes.

Everybody plays it on the recorder, but I don't think I know how it goes.

I

don't think I do either.

I

have to look it up because you always hear, I have a recorder and I learn how to play Hot Cross Buns.

Right.