Supermarkets in Australia have started selling hot cross buns more than three months before Easter, sparking a debate on consumerism and tradition.
Irina Derevich is a baker at a church bakery in Sydney. Every year, she makes hot cross buns and other Easter sweets using her own traditional recipes. Recently, she was surprised to see that the Easter delicacy was being sold more than three months before the holiday. " Easter is the brightest holiday of the year and I always await it with excitement," Derevich said. " Easter cakes and special sweet buns are symbols and signs of Easter days.
Therefore, in our traditions, we patiently wait for the holiday to come," she said. In recent years, supermarkets in Australia have started selling hot cross buns as early as Boxing Day - a trend regularly commented on by social media users. "Don't forget peoples - it is only 96 days until Easter," a Reddit user posted. The comments under the post range from "Nothing says consumerism quite like celebrating Jesus' birthday yesterday then celebrating his death four months early today" to "If they were year round, I'd buy them year round
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