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Penny S
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Hot cross buns have been on sale continuously for some years. At all the supermarkets I've been in. (Not the same buns - they do change the stock.)
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Alan Cresswell

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Someone needs to be brought to task for that.

Fetch ... the comfy chair.

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Ariel
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It's only a couple of days until the chocolate bunnies and eggs are out in the local supermarket, if last year is anything to go by.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Too late by a couple of weeks...
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Golden Key
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Noo, not the comfy chair!
[Paranoid]

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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
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Doc Tor
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Anyway. Merry Christmas, you bastards.

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Golden Key
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{Sticks a sprig of holly in Comrade Doc Tor's heart.}

There, that's better. Very festive. [Biased]

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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
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orfeo

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There's a market for this stuff all year round, just as there's a market for fruit and vegetables all year round so that people are gradually losing their awareness that certain foods are naturally available at particular times of year.

If you're going to complain about fake eggnog cartons turning up at what you apparently think is the wrong time of year for fake eggnog, have the decency to also complain about the sulphur dioxide-treated grapes being shipped across hemispheres, trans-Pacific asparagus and all the other stupid things that are based on the philosophy of telling customers that yes, they can have whatever they want whenever they want it like the spoiled children we've all become.

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Gwai
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I think it's a kind of secular sacramentalism. For the same reasons that you can't treat everywhere as most holy if you want communion and the elements to still be special, one can't have Christmas all the time.

One could also note that making a market (which they successfully are) isn't the same as there already being a market for constant holidaying.

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Sober Preacher's Kid

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You've never been to Frankenmuth, Michigan have you?

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molopata

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I was (in an October many years ago), but they weren't giving anything away for free.

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