[Food] What is the best half of a hot cross bun?

[Hamilton]

Good question. It's hard to split it.

 

[KZNSeagull]

We're the right side, we're the right side, we're the right side Hot Cross Bun.

By the way, whatever happened to the good old standard HCB? Now you go into Tesco and they have Finest, Apple & Cinnamon, St Clements, Caramel & Chocolate, Triple Chocolate, Cheddar & Red Leicester and Strawberries & Clotted Cream.

Have we really got 12 days of this? I'd go on holiday but I've spent all my money.

Standard ones come in packets of 6 (maroon packet) . We have hundreds of the feckin' things at Tesco Bishop Auckland if you are desperate.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254946119

Oh and Bottoms are best.

 

[Swimboy64]

I usually just eat mine as they are I don’t cut them but over the past few years I have started to put butter on the bottom of the bun on the outside
Save dirtying a knife

 

[um bongo molongo]

I usually just eat mine as they are I don’t cut them but over the past few years I have started to put butter on the bottom of the bun on the outside
Save dirtying a knife

I always try and avoid being abusive on this forum, but all I could think of reading this was ‘animal’.

(And the correct answer is top half, toasted with butter)

 

[Pevenseagull]

East half, same as Sussex.

 

[Giraffe]

I'm surprised to read this coming from you, a connoisseur of both the cheese football and a ploughman's lunch (we need to re-visit the latter BTW).

The savoury buns are an absolute triumph of modern fusion cuisine.

The M&S Extremely Cheesy variety are food heaven. Toasted with lots of butter (salted), obviously.

Oh I don't doubt their lovely taste and I do recall you highlighting how lovely those were last year. My against them position is entirely based on tradition, I still indulge, reluctantly.

Put them alongside the many varieties of kit kat, coca cola, chocolate etc versus what we had has a boy. I think there is a jealousy to my thinking as well.

 

[Questions]

The third or fourth half I'd say.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

I can’t believe this is even being asked, let alone people having the audacity to vote incorrectly.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Genuinely stunned that the stodgy doughy bottom isn't romping this.

I wonder if there's scope to set up some sort of swap system - I'll give you my tops if you give me your bottoms.

I’ve just voted doughy bottom……. Says he, desperately trying to ingratiate himself with the boss man!

why? I do not know!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

The most important bit about hot cross buns is they are available all year round. This I only discovered in lock down due to me ordering home delivery from Tesco's, about 50 years too late and now have them weekly to my wife's chagrin!

 

[peterward]

Definitely the top half, it gets more crusty.

As an aside, can they please stop producing these what I would call excessive hot cross buns. You know, hot cross buns with chocolate, with cheese, with marmite. What is wrong with just a hot cross bun.

Every time Mrs Giraffe brings one of those excessive hot cross buns home I tut and moan about the modern generation and their excesses before begrudgingly munching my way through their gorgeous delights. It's just not right.

I noticed that this year in M&S, they have all these different varieties, some with blueberries, some with apple, some mixed fruits and nut.

Don't want any of your new trendy stuff just the old school original with raisins.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Hot cross buns with butter and bacon are my favourite.

 

[Stat Brother]

Having spent all day cogitating this conundrum, and thinking of nothing else, I've come to the conclusion the correct answer is:-


The bottom half.

It feels wrong and counterintuitive esp as the crosses are the best bit, but they aren't bestest enough to win over the top half.
Obviously a fresh HCB, sadly hard to find, needs no accompaniment as it to be eaten thus:-

Peel off the cross.
Flail the remaining top.
Scoop out the innards.
Saving the base till last.
And repeat.

Rustingtonians of old will know The Regency made Sussex's best buns.
But sadly me buying 6, promising not to eat them all before returning home, then having to buy another 6, wasn't a sustainable business plan.

 

[Anger]

The top half is always better.

 

[keaton]

The most important bit about hot cross buns is they are available all year round. This I only discovered in lock down due to me ordering home delivery from Tesco's, about 50 years too late and now have them weekly to my wife's chagrin!

I think I have a discussion once a month in a supermarket with someone next to me in the queue amazed that I'm able to buy hot cross buns in June/October etc

 

[tedebear]

I'm a doughy bottom girl. With butter and toasted. Never tried one of those posh HCB's though, none of this caramel salted, blue berry juice, apple and whoosey whatsist flavours for me. I've found Marks and Spencers Luxury ones to be the finest out there, at £1.85 for 4, can't go wrong...sadly given them up...but on we go...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I like mine, untoasted, sans beurre but with lots of fruit. All year round.

 

[Dun Lurkin]

I like both halves equally (traditional type). Unfortunately they don't like me, and usually reward me with indigestion. Perhaps its my age.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I've voted soggy bottoms ala Greg but I've discovered Hot Cross Bread in Sainsburys West Hove which is orgasmic !

 

[HyperTony]

Maybe i'm a monster, but i NEVER slice a HCB in half, straight out the packet into my gaping cavern. Mmmmmmm