LOGIC PREVAILS: Bakers Protest Against Hot Cross Buns Being Sold At Xmas

A funny (read: rage-inducing) thing has happened in the past few years that’s totally messed up the traditional Christian holiday timeline. 

Like most people, Jesus’ story begins with his birth. A few millennia later, and Western culture has spun a carpenter’s humble start into a multi-billion dollar bonanza we like to call Christmas. By contrast, Easter focuses on the end of his life – perhaps you’ve heard about that episode, too. Sprinkle on eggs (?), rabbits (??), and chocolate eggs & rabbits (???) and we get Easter, circa 2015.

Odd things happen when our appetite for seasonal goodies supersedes that timeline, though. Hot cross buns – symbolic of Jesus’ death – have been popping up closer and closer to Christmas every season; now, Aussie bakers incensed by the nonsense of buying hot cross buns in December have protested against their sale. They may have even solved that awkward celebrating-a-dude’s-death-before-his-birth time travel paradox, too. 

A group of bakers gave rise to their pleas in Melbourne today, proving their point in the city’s CBD. Steven Plarre, repping the fourth generation of bakers in his family, said “we don’t want to sell hot cross buns straight after Christmas on Boxing Day…the things we don’t have every day of the week, it’s when they arrive, it’s more special. So, it is really about keeping things special.” 

Bakers having a bun fight over baking hot cross buns in #Christmas in #Melbourne @theage pic.twitter.com/mFD3ZbUlxc

— Neelima Choahan (@NeelimaChoahan) December 21, 2015

Well, it’s also about cash too, with supermarkets cutting in on baker’s margins by running out the buns earlier and earlier. Fairfax report the head of a peak Victoria baking body Andrew O’Hara said “bakers traditionally rely upon two big times of the year: one is Christmas trade and the other one is the Easter trade,” and that the bun-eating public “are jaded.”

It’ll be a Christmas miracle of Woolies decide not to run them out as early as January, with a spokesperson saying they’re down to X-up any time they like. Maybe save the crosses for March, though. 

Story: Fairfax. 
Photo: Twitter.