Christians, Klu Klux Klan – It’s a hot cross bun fight!
A fight has erupted between different religious and race groups over the naming of the Easter favourite ‘Hot Cross Buns’.
Christian groups have been battling with large chain Supermarkets who have chosen the more secular ‘Easter Bun’ in naming their baked goods over the traditional ‘Hot Cross Bun’. A spokesperson for Woolworths stated that ‘we wanted to include everyone in celebrating our buns’. It’s not an anti-Christian stance he maintains, ‘we want to be inclusive in a multicultural society and we think that means removing the cross’.
Atheist groups have praised the move, saying that it is ‘a decisive victory for common sense’. Agnostic groups say they would have liked to have seen ‘the cross replaced with a question mark’.
Equal rights groups have denounced the ‘Easter Bun’ as inherently racist. ‘Why’, they ask, ‘is the little piece of black fruit or chocolate completely surrounded and overpowered by the white dough’.
The Klu Klux Klan has also weighed into the debate stating that they agree with Woolworth’s move. Grand Dragon Rufus Ackerman says ‘it is copyright infringement of our most famous trademark. Any hot, warm, singed or burning cross is synonymous with the expression of Klan beliefs’.
