Hot Crossed Buns

I acknowledge that I might be ignorant. Maybe people in the States eat hot crossed buns all the time. But I only think of it as the first song I learned on the recorder and the oboe. Because it's easy. And I think when I asked what they were, adults told me that it was something people used to eat "in the old days". Because that's what I think of them as.

Wrong.

It is an Easter thing here. You eat hot crossed buns at Easter time. My church even had them as a special treat, though apparently you had to hang around and talk to get them. Alas, I did not. It was a trick, you see. : ) But later, I did get them at a friend's house. They taste like raisin cinnamon bread in muffin form. Kind of. I mean, they're good, but I think the novelty is way cooler. I ate hot crossed buns. Did you?