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I've never run across hot cross buns outside of the period around Easter in any of the places I've lived in the US. Shame, because they are quite tasty!

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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I've never run across hot cross buns outside of the period around Easter in any of the places I've lived in the US. Shame, because they are quite tasty!

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They were very popular when I lived in the northeast U.S., but here in the southwest they're much harder to find, and they're not very good when I do manage to find any.


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I've never run across hot cross buns outside of the period around Easter in any of the places I've lived in the US. Shame, because they are quite tasty!

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One thing to note is that currants aren't that common in the US due to concerns with plant diseases. Production has only really resumed in the last decade.

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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Tell you what: we'll take back "Happy Holidays" to the US, if UK folks will please take back the citron bits from the hot cross buns. You can put them in your own, and enjoy them. I can't stand citron. Win-win.

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But, not good beer. Cats piss like Bud or Coors.

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...our recipes tend to involve presoaking the neighbor's annoying cat in beer.

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You done fucked up your OP and now are pissy about being called on it. Take your lumps.

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Understandable. Engagement around here appears to consist of exchanging fruit bun recipes.

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Given that you have no such thing—excellence being inimical to the nature of pork pies

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Given that you have no such thing—excellence being inimical to the nature of pork pies—I don't see how I could be even slightly miffed.

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Most people in my corner of middle England have never heard of Divali, as real holiday that real people celebrate. If they have come aross it then it is as something exotic that happens elsewehere.

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In this corner of middle England in north west London, Diwali is enthusiastically celebrated, the external manifestation being fireworks which in most years get mixed up with those for Guy Fawkes.

But it never seems to occur anywhere near Christmas, so I can't see any need for a catch-all greeting.

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While I am far from clear where 'Middle England' exists geographically, in the actual middle of England (places like Leicester) Diwali is celebrated as described by Signaller. It tends to fall in October or November so is not confused with 'winter holidays', but the lights put up for Diwali are kept up for Christmas in parts of the city. So it might be exotic but it's celebrated quite close to home.

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lB—I actually have a grey straw one that I picked up from one of the greatest shops I've ever been to. Looked reeeal nice before I started pulling my hair back/lopped it all off (sniff).

A—wouldn't you know it, but I have had something like that. Hated it. Why, you're not even the first person on these very boards who couldn't believe that I might have given it an honest-to-God chance, or just knew that I must not have had The Real Thing™. Nope. Pork pies are a waste of perfectly good rotten Spam.

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Given that you have no such thing—excellence being inimical to the nature of pork pies—I don't see how I could be even slightly miffed.

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You've never had a proper one. Forget the hard grey pastry that shatters to reveal a congealed lump of something grey and unidentifiable at the base of the pastry case with the remaining two-thirds of the space filled by air. No commercially made factory output pork pie is ever going to be great. You need to try a genuine handmade pork pie with decent cuts of real pork in it, seasoned with herbs, that goes all the way up to the top of a golden-brown pastry case. There may even be meat jelly in it but there is no air. This is a pork pie that can be sliced without fear, and looked forward to, rich, succulent, edible and moreish either hot or cold.

And it does not have a hardboiled egg in the centre either.

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And like all the "proper" versions of these things, whether it be free range meat, pork pies or real cheese, completely unaffordable for anyone on a normal income.

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And like all the "proper" versions of these things, whether it be free range meat, pork pies or real cheese, completely unaffordable for anyone on a normal income.

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And like all the "proper" versions of these things, whether it be free range meat, pork pies or real cheese, completely unaffordable for anyone on a normal income.

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Not the sort of money required for these trendy artisan foods. You know the sort of thing, hand folded cheddar at £20/kilo, packs of outdoor reared wild boar sausages at a quid a sausage. The sort of thing my principles tell me I should want to buy but which my bank account tells me to forget about.

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And like all the "proper" versions of these things, whether it be free range meat, pork pies or real cheese, completely unaffordable for anyone on a normal income.

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Not the sort of money required for these trendy artisan foods. You know the sort of thing, hand folded cheddar at £20/kilo, packs of outdoor reared wild boar sausages at a quid a sausage. The sort of thing my principles tell me I should want to buy but which my bank account tells me to forget about.

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It isn't that long ago that all food was produced in this "trendy artisan" manner. Food used to take up a far greater proportion of the household income but thanks to agri-business it is now much cheaper. All produce was "local produce" and a heck of a lot was seasonal. Clothing is cheaper now, especially if you buy goods produced in the subcontinent. The only thing that appears substantially more expensive nowadays is the #1 priority, housing.

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It isn't that long ago that all food was produced in this "trendy artisan" manner. Food used to take up a far greater proportion of the household income but thanks to agri-business it is now much cheaper. All produce was "local produce" and a heck of a lot was seasonal. Clothing is cheaper now, especially if you buy goods produced in the subcontinent. The only thing that appears substantially more expensive nowadays is the #1 priority, housing.

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It isn't that long ago that all food was produced in this "trendy artisan" manner. Food used to take up a far greater proportion of the household income but thanks to agri-business it is now much cheaper. All produce was "local produce" and a heck of a lot was seasonal. Clothing is cheaper now, especially if you buy goods produced in the subcontinent. The only thing that appears substantially more expensive nowadays is the #1 priority, housing.

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Food also used to be dangerous. That's a major thing people forget when extolling the dreamy memories of local abattoirs: they closed because they were dangerous. Big agribusiness frequently looks horrible, but it is a heck of lot safer than food used to be.

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It isn't that long ago that all food was produced in this "trendy artisan" manner. Food used to take up a far greater proportion of the household income but thanks to agri-business it is now much cheaper. All produce was "local produce" and a heck of a lot was seasonal. Clothing is cheaper now, especially if you buy goods produced in the subcontinent. The only thing that appears substantially more expensive nowadays is the #1 priority, housing.

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Food also used to be dangerous. That's a major thing people forget when extolling the dreamy memories of local abattoirs: they closed because they were dangerous. Big agribusiness frequently looks horrible, but it is a heck of lot safer than food used to be.

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Yes. Then if you got E. coli in your abbatoir, it could kill the locals. Now it can kill people in 27 states.

Also, what lilBuddha said. Big Agribiz is working very hard to roll back all the food safety laws we have in place, so they can make a killing.

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Escherichia coli is a species of bacteria where most of the strains are entirely harmless. So the presence of the species is not going to be a problem (and is probably inevitable), whereas the presence of a dangerous strain like 0157 is going to kill people.

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Dude, Upton Sinclair.

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