British Hospital Rolls Over on Hot-Cross Bun Ban

FOXnews.com ^ | 10 April, 2007 | FOX News

[Salem]

Let them eat crescent rolls!

That might be the response from the kitchen staff at Poole Hospital in Dorset, England, where officials have banned hot-cross buns — a traditional Easter treat — for fear of upsetting non-Christians.

The decision prompted an angry response from hospital workers, the Daily Mail of London reported.

[Salem]

Hot cross buns full of flavour and history. [Free Republic]

[Salem]

*rolls eyes*

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[SamAdams76]

I’ve been alive for nearly 50 years and this is the first time I ever heard that hot cross buns ever had any religious significance.

[livius]

Crescent rolls! That’s a good idea. Supposedly the crescent roll or croissant was to commemorate the victory of the Christians over the Muslim Turks in Vienna.

[capt. norm]

Very few people know that ‘hot cross buns’ were invented by a clumsy cowboy who fell on his branding iron.

[kinoxi]

It was the Joos and their zionist brethren they tell me...

[Phantom Lord]

We can eat our hot cross buns while sitting down when we drink and reading Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.

Don't get the 'sitting down while drinking'? A city in England is contemplating banning standing up when drinking. Seems they believe it causes fights!

I kid you not. Britian is truly turning into a nation of sissys.

[mware]

LOL, Sam a couple years ago, during lent I gave up sweets, it was the same year I converted to Catholicism.

I went to my cousins house for coffee in the morning and they had hot cross buns, she is Catholic. She told me that it was okay to eat hot cross buns during lent because it had a cross on it.

[sageb1]

Original story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447750&in_page_id=1770

[Salem]

LOL!!  

[Phantom Lord]

She told me that it was okay to eat hot cross buns during lent because it had a cross on it.

I am a catholic as well and I get some enjoyment out of catholics excuses to get out of things or avoid strict adherence.

My grandfather is a very religious man and has many friends that are priests, montseniors and a couple bishops.

My grandfather and I have been playing golf together since I was in 2nd grade (I am 33). When I was a teenager we went golfing and his Montsenior friend joined us. Now I have a mouth on me. Especially on the golf course. So my grandfather warned me to keep my mouth shut because of our playing partner. I understood.

Well a couple of holes in the Montsenior shanks his drive. "Son of a bitch!" he yells. Few shots later he hits a tree and his ball goes flying into the woods. "God Damnit!" he exclaims. Next hole, another shanked shot, "Jesus Christ!" he angrily mutters.

My grandfather got upset and said "Montsenior, watch your language." The Montsenior looks my grandfather in the eyes, points to the sky and says "God doesn't listen to you on the golf course."

I swear, its 100% true.

[mware]

LOL, It is kind of funny when you know someone who is a religious or a priest and have conversations with that about issues.

One of my good friends who is a priest, and talk show host on the radio comes up with some beauts.

[Salem]

"I kid you not. Britian is truly turning into a nation of sissys."

We may not be far behind. Remember THIS ONE? I live by here. Jaw-dropping.

[Little Bill]

I have been alive for Sixty and “Hot Cross Buns” were an Easter treat. The breaking of the Lenten fast, this is an English tradition, I think, the Bard mentions it.

[kiriath_jearim]

“Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One-a-penny, two-a-penny! Hot cross buns!”

[LegendHasIt]

When are they going to ban the letter T and the mathematical plus + sign for fear of offending 'non-christians' with the shape.

[Phantom Lord]

I have known many a priest in my life and my great uncle's brother is a priest. My grandmother lives next door to the church I attended all my life that I lived in NY. In NY they have the bottle deposit law. You pay a nickle per can when you purchase and then return them to get your nickle back. So people save them.

There were always giant clear garbage bags in the garage at the church stuffed FULL of beer cans. The priest had an apartment at the church that he lived in. He enjoyed himself.

[darkangel82]

That’s what socialism does to you.

[Excellence]

Oh, my. They’re as Easter as an Easter Egg.

[ApplegateRanch]

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!

If you don’t have daughters,
Put burkas on your sons!