4 Ways British and American Easter Food is Subtly Different

[@LostinthePond]

There are definite differences between British and American Mini Eggs, too! I didn't discuss those here, mainly because @Old Fashioned AF and I discussed them last year. Click the link in my description to re-live that discussion.

[@possumaintdead]

Actually I am fond of Reese’s peanut butter eggs. Much better than their peanut butter cups, not sure why...🤔

[@jonathanfinan722]

Truth You Can Handle kidney pie? If such a thing exists, and I presume you mean steak and kidney pie, it will have its origin in the simple fact that they taste good, just like any other pie. You can have steak and kidney pudding which is pie-like but made with a suet crust and steamed for hours.

[@johnsimmons5951]

Your not a poet. And you didn't know it. :)

[@TheDellaniOakes]

We've found TP at the local convenience store. When my husband goes to get gas, or buy his cigarettes, he picks up a roll or two. Good luck! I never heard of simnel cake, but hot cross buns are on today's menu -- when I get my butt in gear and make them.

[@chadchaddington9886]

Wow, in all your videos, you seem to massively channel your inner David Brent

[@susanbrown5080]

Hi Laurence, mum here, just letting you know Christopher has got two mini creme eggs. Take care and love you lots.

[@autosadist]

omg this is so cute

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

Happy Easter, Mrs. B! 🐇🐣🌸

[@lipstickcloud]

That's so adorable ❤ 🐰

[@ericbrown2332]

Don't worry Mrs B. I'm gonna get your son to respond. You are awesome. (BTW, my last name is also Brown. Not that there's any relation)

[@susanbrown5080]

Thank you everyone who is supporting Laurence,it means so much to me to know my youngest son is doing something he was born to do. Take care everyone.X

[@heidifedor]

The hollow chocolate bunny is usually the lowest quality of chocolate. As a kid you’d be excited to see this huge giant chocolate bunny, and then sadly disappointed that you bite into a giant hollow piece of of chocolate flavored wax.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

So true! The only hollow chocolate I've tasted which is delicious beyond compare, is the chocolate my sister sent us from Russia. Their hollow eggs have little plastic prizes inside. I got the cutest cockatoo in mine. I stopped buying the hollow bunnies and eggs for my children, because they didn't like them. Bring on the Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs!

[@johnstevenson9956]

It depends a lot on the brand of chocolate.

[@goosebump801]

Heidi Fedor Lindt or other good chocolate brands make good bunnies. (Some of them are solid, too; a nice change from hollow if the chocolate is good.) The problem is that there are a plethora of off brands which seem to manufacture “chocolate flavored wax” year round and pile it onto grocery store shelves at attractive prices just in time for innocent children’s non-chocolate-loving moms to snatch it up, congratulating themselves on finding such a bargain. 😱🤯🤮 No, Mom, I’m not bitter at all 😂

[@heidifedor]

Goosebump 801 No I know there are some good brands. Godiva has an amazing hollow chocolate bunny in both milk, and dark. I’m just saying that most of the chocolate bunnies are terrible.

[@antiquatedanachronism1997]

I thought the candy decorations on the bunnies were the best part.

[@hardchooligan]

I've lived all over the US and I've never seen a hot cross bun outside of playing the recorder

[@joeymama4666]

You can't avoid seeing them in the Northeast.

[@jilledmondson6894]

All the grocery stores and bakeries carry/make crossed buns in Chicago area.

[@minuteman4199]

They're very common in Canada. About 20 years ago our biggest chain of grocery stores started selling them year round.

[@michelehogan7868]

@@AlishaYouch I was going to say the same. Try New England!

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

I've seen hot cross buns in our local grocery store's bakery. But because they often have raisins in them we don't like them.

[@jwb52z9]

Before I learned about much of anything in the UK, when I was a kid, I only heard the term "hot cross buns" in a nursery rhyme.

[@brrjohnson8131]

American here, same story, different continent.

[@princess876ify]

Same here. I still don’t know what a hot cross bun is.

[@unknown-jr3xe]

Rayelle Kay It’s literally the name

[@deathbeforedecaf7755]

Really? I'm in WI and hot cross buns is definitely a thing for Sunday brunch and esp during Easter

[@e.j.5575]

For Easter this year, we are having gas station hot dogs. One of the perks of working a boo boo bus 🚑 on a holiday during a pandemic 😷🦠. Not complaining! Be happy, stay home, stay safe and stay healthy. For persons of faith, have a very blessed Easter!✝️

[@msg4925]

Thank you! Hope your shift is quiet and you get a good supper later 😁

[@samanthab1923]

E. J. Thank you for being out there. Hopefully you get home safe for a most deserved rest & good meal. 😊✌🏻

[@christinecunningham8503]

What the heck is a boo boo bus?

[@sharon22669]

@@christinecunningham8503 I think an ambulance, maybe?

[@pegisaacson4640]

Lamb cakes!! Cake looks like a land with coconut “wool” and jelly bean eyes.

[@erinschnaedter6172]

I was hoping someone would mention this! It's a tradition for us to have one at our large family get-together each year. :-)

[@raymonddavis1370]

Question about hot cross buns : "One a penny Two a penny Hot Cross Buns."What kind of pricing system is this?

[@-Subtle-]

Easily found at Wegmans!

[@toomanyopinions8353]

Penny means something different in the UK. But also it’s a song/rhyme from a long time ago and inflation has increased prices of food a lot.

[@barrygibbons2722]

In Bermuda Good Friday Is a Public holiday and also a family/Friends gathering. People eat Hot Cross Buns and Fish Cakes (mixture of mainly Codfish and Potato). We also fly Kites and drink Bloody Marys before the kites are flown.

[@robertkoons1154]

We get hot cross buns during lent in Pennsylvania. We eat lamb too! Jelly beans and solid chocolate eggs from Hershey's (because it's Pennsylvania).

[@robertkoons1154]

Also all Cadbury Eggs sold in the US are made by Hershey's (under license)!

[@karenroberton3290]

Your hot cross buns are so different. Ours are much less sweet & flavored with all spice & we have much more raisins, currants etc. I miss them.

[@HemlockRidge]

Also Peeps, and Jelly Beans from Just Born candys. Also PA, Bethlehem to be exact.

[@goosebump801]

HemlockRidge Yes! This! I was waiting for someone to bring up the Peeps and jelly beans missing from Laurence’s list.

[@samanthab1923]

HemlockRidge Did you know they drop a giant Peep chick 🐥 for New Years in Bethlehem?

[@KLRe0509]

We had some type of dessert every Easter, whether that’s cake, pie, cookies, etc., but it was never a set thing. Someone would just bring a random dessert.

[@samanthab1923]

Krissy H I tried to remember what the dessert was at Easter 🐣 but your right, could have been anything. The closest recollection is a Carvel ice cream cake. Shaped as a Bunny of course.

[@samanthab1923]

Krissy H Yup, born in Yonkers NY. Where the company originated. Fun fact: my gran pop knew Tom Carvel. As a kid the ice cream shops were all over the place but now you can only buy it in supermarkets. I feel like the same is happening to Friendly's.

[@s.d.703]

This year, we had a bunch of tree limbs come down, so we are doing some burning, which means we are doing a hot dog roast and s'mores for Easter, lol

[@valerief1231]

S. D. See, that’s just smart! Hope you didn’t have too much trauma or costly damage. Easter wiennie roast and s’mores sounds like a great family tradition 🥰 the Good News is He is Risen!!! Blessing to you and your family

[@mariposaenperu5490]

Growing up in Michigan, we had lamb for Maundy Thursday and then ham for Easter Sunday. Our Easter baskets always included a chocolate bunny (or a chocolate cross, if the store had them that year), Cadbury creme eggs, little foil-wrapped mini eggs, marshmallow Peeps, and jelly beans. :-)

[@mandyrobbins1041]

In my family, we usually have an "easter bunny cake". It's a couple cakes frosted and arranged together, and decorated to be shaped like a little white bunny rabbit wearing a polka-dot bow tie. You can use whatever cake or cake mix you fancy, using round cake pans...but we tend to use Spice Cake.

[@lindanizamoff7981]

I used to make that when my son was little.so easy to make and decorate.

[@earnestcarter8958]

Your appearance and voice tone agrees with your statement about having “12 sherries last night.” You seem somewhat under the weather and your voice was flatter (more monotonic) than usual. Other than that the humor and information (opinion?) was right on target. BTW, here in Texas, usually BBQ Beef Brisket or Ham is quite popular for Easter. However, since we can’t have family and friends over right now, we are having steak, baked potatoes, Broccoli, and Banana pudding. Best Wishes to everyone during these trying times.

[@Michelle-bf7ph]

What is wrong with you?? Why can't ppl be hung over? Why is that the one thing you bring up? He's human so what if he had a hangover?!!

[@Michelle-bf7ph]

Quit disecting everything lol

[@lynnerodgers4461]

Cadbury Mini Eggs are my addiction!! EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR!!

[@Kamakiri86]

They're available year-round in Canada ;)

[@labhrais6957]

Also, I made pineapple upside down cake for Easter dessert this year.

[@erinb4237]

Pineapple stuffing was on my table

[@loricooke3423]

Yum!

[@willg4802]

I felt so cheated as a kid when the chocolate bunny was hollow!

[@TheGreatAtario]

I did too… till I got to the solid ears and realized I never would have been able to bite through the body were it solid

[@Michelle-bf7ph]

My mom used to give me them huge chocolate solid bunnies 😀🤣

[@Mack_erel]

i absolutely love carrot cake but its not really an easter thing

[@MrAndMrsBanks]

Agree, not connected with Easter at all in my mind. More of a Fall food.

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

It's my sister's and mine favorite birthday cake! 😁

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

It was our favourite Easter cake for us 😍😉 two years ago. It can also be a Christmas cake or a no reason at all cake!

[@edennis8578]

The grocery stores here have carrot cakes for Easter, decorated with little carrots and flowers or bunnies.

[@Michelle-bf7ph]

To some ppl it is

[@elizabethrhone5516]

This may sound silly.. but from working in an elementary school, when you said Hot Cross Buns my mind went straight to the song students learn in their recorder. You can withstand anything if you can make it through the recorder section of music curriculum- 27 students all trying to play this in their recorders. Bless them

[@robburgess4556]

I'm Canadian and my grandparents were English & Irish . Growing up we followed mostly British traditions. I've never heard of simnel cake before.

[@christelheadington1136]

On other comment pages I've seen, the simmel cake sounds similar to an Italian Easter cake, at least the marzipan part.

[@dnw10021987]

I don’t remember having a certain dessert at Easter besides the candy.

[@sharon22669]

We broke from our traditional spiral ham and started having Rib Roast. At least everyone in my family likes it. When I made ham I'd have to make another meal for the picky eaters. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

[@ms.fruitbat8883]

When I was younger and we spent Easter with my grandparents, we would typically have ham. Later when we celebrated at home, my parents would make lamb. I remember as a kid, my parents would hide candy around the house, and me and my brother would hunt for it. It never failed that we would miss some, and 6 months later you would find random pieces of chocolate.

[@chiprbob]

I did a quick search and there are roughly 7 times as many sheep in the UK as there are in the US.

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

And the area of the continental United States is about 5 1/2 times greater than the area of Great Britain, so that’s *staggering*. ‘Mericans simply have no idea how thickly the sheep are scattered there

[@themermaidstale5008]

Navajo people raise a lot of sheep

[@neilbuckley1613]

@hawkturkey We have plenty of Cows here in the UK, they get the richer pastures, the sheep are up on the hills. Roast beef is the traditional dinner here.

[@chiprbob]

Something I found interesting when looking it up is that Texas has the largest population of sheep followed by California and Texas and California together account for 25% of all the sheep in America.

[@chiprbob]

@@themermaidstale5008 Yes, a lot of people don't know that the Navajo rely heavily on wool for income.

[@Paul_Waller]

At home with the Cat. We're both are used to social separating. ;)

[@merricat3025]

I am home with two cats and one dog. And it's snowing out

[@janjirawilliams1172]

I didn't know we supposed to have any sort of cake for easter.i got it.carrot cake because bunny loves carrots?it gotta to be glazed ham with round sliced pineapple&a cherry.

[@mikeclarke1961]

This episode of Lost In The Pond has been brought to you by Cadbury.

[@MrAndMrsBanks]

I personally am not a fan of Cadbury. The eggs with sticky/runny whites and yolks have always grossed me out! But Cadbury in general is inferior. I understand that is not the case in the UK though. They license their brand to an American company for US distribution. Some UK friends have brought me UK Cadbury and it is very different and better.

[@jonstewart9792]

@@MrAndMrsBanks I have had and enjoy both U.S. version and U.K. version of Cadbury eggs. The chocolate is virtually the same the difference for me is the texture of the cream inside, with the U.K. version being creamier and slightly less sweet. The U.S. version being slightly gritty and sweeter, so I just assume the grittiness to be an abundance of sugar that did not break down during the cream making process.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

@@MrAndMrsBanks i prefer the smarties easter egg chocolate . has more of a snap to it and less soft than cadburys is

[@crazycatlady752]

Hello Luvs! We wanted to let you know how much of a blessing both of you have been to us here during the Great Lockdown. Please know we are cheering for you, as well as praying for you both. You sounded so sad! We hope you feel a bit better soon! (Also, another reason Americans do not eat a lot of lamb is because it is hard to find in most grocery stores outside of large cities and it tends to be VERY expensive.) Please know we do love your work - it makes us laugh during a difficult time. Thank you so much for all you two do! Love to you both!

[@Booger414]

Hot Cross Buns are a staple of this season for me. I always thought they were a Lenten thing, not so much an Easter thing.

[@stanbrown32]

I had never heard of Simnel Cake until I started watching a lot of Mary Berry videos on KZbin, and one from the 1970s where she made a Simnel Cake popped up.

[@gmunden1]

Homemade hot crossed buns, chocolate eggs, and bunnies prevalent in Eastern US. Had every year as a child. Also, Easter lamb and/or ham

[@j.m.7056]

Do you have a recipe for HCBs to share?

[@jessicatadlock809]

That's hilarious! I made a carrot cake last night. We are having pot roast and mashed potatoes. We live on the Gulf Coast of Alabama.

[@heidifedor]

We never had lamb, but we had a cake in the shape of a lamb.

[@peculiarpangolin4638]

Ah, good to see another family with that tradition!

[@goosebump801]

Heidi Fedor Wow-did your mom have a lamb-shaped pan or something? Interesting. My sister was born on Easter Sunday, so for years my mom made her a “bunny cake” for Easter. 1. Bake two standard round cake layers 2. Make two arcing cuts in one of the cake layers, so as to create a sort of bow tie shape sandwiched between two ear shapes 3. Frost each piece; arrange ears - head - bow tie on a cookie sheet 4. Use colored icing to indicate the linings of the ears, to create eyes/nose/mouth, and to make the bow tie contrast with the bunny’s head 5. Sprinkle with sweetened shredded coconut for “fur”; leave the bow tie plain, for those who don’t like coconut

[@heidifedor]

Goosebump 801 Yes, but she didn’t take the time to pipe the icing so that it would look like lambs wool. So after she applied the icing, it just like a white birch log with a jellybean nose, and two jellybean eyes. Eventually she covered it in coconut, which looked better. However, by then she had lost the recipe that came with cake pan. So she had to use a box cake mix, which wasn’t dense enough to hold the cake together. The head would always fall off, and she would have to stick it back on with a wooden skewer. In other words, I don’t think it was the amazing cake that you were envisioning.

[@julienielsen3746]

I used one of those lamb cake pans once and made a Yorkshire Terrier cake for my sister that raised Yorkies.

[@lexxieburton6182]

u have to use 1 pound cake mix and 1 regular mix mixxed together

[@doncarlton4858]

My Mom cooked a leg of lamb for Easter, or as a backup choice, ham. Carrot cake was common on Easter. Chocolate bunnies, hard (marzipan?) candy eggs, jelly beans, and Peeps were my favorite candies for Easter. Thanks again and Happy Easter Tara and Lawrence!

[@kailea78]

German living in the US, and we are eating Hot Cross Buns today.

[@msaudreylee]

When I was a kid, the Easter Bunny brought us new shoes to go with our new Easter outfits. The box would be open and the candy would be inside with the shoes. I've never heard of anyone else doing that.

[@OMGitsaClaire]

In the American South, or at least the part of Alabama I grew up in, the Easter meal is pretty much always ham. In fact, ham is probably eaten by more families on Easter than Christmas because a few Southern families do turkey or beef, but Easter is always ham. As for sides, it’s usually a take your pick of traditional Southern dishes. Often there’s something cheesy like mac and cheese (homemade of course) or scalloped potatoes or hash brown casserole. And something green like green beans or greens. Maybe glazed carrots. Usually yeast rolls or biscuits. Usually there’s a big platter of deviled eggs somewhere. And then dessert is often something with meringue like banana pudding or a cream pie of some sort like lemon or chocolate. Sometimes there are lemon bars. Back when I was a kid, congealed salads were also a thing at Easter but I know almost no one that makes congealed salad anymore.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

I want what you're having, please! :)

[@samanthab1923]

Claire Woerner We always had fresh ham.

[@srice6231]

As a kid my mom always made the Pillsbury Orange Rolls with decorated hard boiled eggs and ham for Easter breakfast.

[@ajeims17]

Happy Easter 🐣

[@LydiaTarine12]

Where I grew up, we had sheep that wintered on the valley floor and summered up in the mountains. :)

[@naydee]

Since the kids are grown and gone we changed up the traditional ham and ate Easter chili with corn bread and strawberry cake. (There’s no such thing as Easter chili but I felt obliged to make it appear special, sorry).

[@felinemagic4473]

That's me with the hot cross buns. Growing up, we had homemade hot cross buns every Easter. So, have to continue the tradition. Yummo.

[@johnpeters1441]

Happy Easter..... dinner. Usually it depends on your nationality, those of us who are first second and maybe even third generation, go with Traditions that go back to the old country, and my case it's usually sauce being either lasagna or manicotti. the more american you are the big meal is more brunch then supper. however Ham is the go to... years ago our Family gathered after Mass.. it was omelettes ,ham, baked ziti.. but thats when grandmothers and grandfathers were still with us. oh yes mimosa lots of mimosa.

[@johnpeters1441]

@Rachel P cool....👍

[@ginatrombetto1931]

Thank u so much for posting your humor during this difficult time and on Easter !

[@mldzines]

I'm not eating hot crossed buns but I am enjoying homemade cinnamon rolls... close enough right?

[@tracyl1368]

Not really love but they'll do!😉🙂

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

You *ARE* a hoot. I've never eaten a hot-crossed bun in my life, but I remember learning a song about it in elementary school, in the Midwest. I also remember all the kids asking the music teacher what a hot-crossed bun was. Happy Easter, everyone! 🐣🐇

[@violagreene4643]

In the intro you mentioned Christmas with respect to ham vs turkey, but this American usually has both for Christmas. And Thanksgiving for that matter. In fact, one year we had 3 different preparations of turkey (roasted, smoked, and fried) and 2 different preparations of ham (a sweet one and a spiced one). And this was just for a relatively small gathering.

[@namelessone3339]

My family was very involved in developing the American turkey industry, so it was turkey for every gathering.

[@timothymcdonald8103]

We typically have turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas or Cornish game, hens lamb for Easter corn beef for St. Patrick's Day

[@FireCracker3240]

Happy Easter! I'm sitting here eating Cadbury Mini Eggs while waiting for my DoorDash delivery. Just another Easter Sunday (not really).

[@susanbrown5080]

Happy Easter to you.

[@kaylapalooza66]

Cadbury mini eggs are the best. I always get the big bag from Walmart and put some in the freezer to eat in later parts of the year.

[@FireCracker3240]

@@susanbrown5080 Thank you! To you and yours as well.

[@FireCracker3240]

@@kaylapalooza66 They are great! I love them. I must say though, the US produce version is nowhere near as good as the UK version. I once ordered Cadbury imported from England, and you can absolutely tell the difference.

[@kaylapalooza66]

@@FireCracker3240 I should get some imported some time.

[@seatbelttruck]

We mostly do pies. But for those of us who don't like pies, we bake a chocolate cake, frost it in a pastel color, and decorate it with Easter candy (usually pastel m&ms or mini eggs).

[@adm3303]

Happy Easter! Are you feeling okay or are you just hungover? You don't seem as bright and energetic.

[@applegal3058]

Solid Easter bunnies and hallow eggs and little foil wrapped solid eggs...I remember those well. Also remember liking cream eggs at one time...too sweet now!

[@keiichimorisato98]

American here, my family eats Lamb and hot cross buns for easter Sunday.

[@deneentorkelson6131]

Here in Michigan, we eat Hot Cross buns!😋

[@R.M.MacFru]

We do? Where? O.o

[@SaneNoMore]

I asked my elderly mother what she wanted for Easter dinner this year. KFC she said... yup she wanted Kentucky Fried Chicken. Glad they have a drive-thru.

[@bizesarah1]

Making hot cross buns today as I do every Easter!

[@bizesarah1]

One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!

[@TheDellaniOakes]

So am I. With us all on lockdown, I forgot to make them sooner. They are a major part of Easter at our house.

[@lindavaldez3047]

Growing up all EASTER family dinners we had ham, butter in shape of a lamb, also cake with coconut on top of the frosting( shaped into a lamb) died coconut in green for grass with jelly beans. But now it's basically just me and my sister we go out and i get my favorite, leg of lamb dinner.

[@MrAndMrsBanks]

I have never thought of cake being part of an Easter meal. I LOVE lamb, but it is not a highly eaten meat here in America.

[@robertgronewold3326]

It's hard to even find it when you're looking for it.

[@HemlockRidge]

We always had a leg of lamb on Easter. Lots of Germans in PA.

[@AtomicSquirrelHunter]

@@robertgronewold3326 Parts of the country have lots of South Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean,etc., where Lamb is very available, i.e., Houston or SoCal.

[@goosebump801]

AtomicSquirrelHunter Fair warning: many/most Indians (and perhaps others?) refer to the meat of both sheep and goats as “mutton.” In fact, “mutton” more often indicates goat rather than sheep. Not sure whether “lamb” differentiates either. I actually prefer goat meat to lamb/mutton.

[@lukedoherty8062]

Goosebump 801 in the UK lamb is usually a sheep around a year old popular in the spring time. Where as the mutton is an older sheep’s meat which is tougher. Rarely seen mutton here unless it’s stewed or curried. Goat On the other hand I’ve never seen for sale. Maybe possible at certain butchers.

[@ellenross4413]

Hot Cross Buns are popular in upstate New York...the supermarkets always have them during Lent and for a few weeks. The King Cakes with yellow, purple and green icings have gotten popular,too.

[@allaboutroy7399]

Let me know in the comments what you’re stuffing your mouth with. Do keep it to food, it’s a Sunday😂😂😂 I died

[@ruthsaunders9507]

We always had a New England boiled dinner for Easter. It was Lamb roasted with garden vegetables. So good.

[@FireCracker3240]

Out of Toilet Paper? Me too. What I do now is I hit the drive through on the way to/from work. I'll order something, anything at all... and save the napkins. I generally throw away the ones marred with greasy stains, but if this TP shortage continues much longer... who knows? 😂

[@grondhero]

Newspaper and any ancient _Sears Roebuck_ catalogs work well, too. ;) If you're actually low on toilet paper, check with your local super market; ask an employee when they get their deliveries. Mine gets five trucks a week (occasionally six) and it's the same five days, and they always start the unload two hours before the store opens. Early on, toilet paper was gone by 8:15 - 8:30, but more recently they've been lasting until 2-3 pm (just once it was 4:30).

[@loricooke3423]

@@grondhero you're lucky to find any. I can't ever seem to see any no matter what store or how early. Clerks act like they aren't supposed to tell you when the shipments come in. Maybe they think it'll be like Christmas and they'll get trampled.

[@grondhero]

@@loricooke3423 At my store, the clerks are a different internal team than those that unload the trucks. The store "normally" gets four trucks a week, but now are getting five trucks a week. Because of the rush to get stuff to the stores, they don't know what's going to be on it. Best bet is to just go to the store when they open.

[@brendaspangler443]

Angel food with strawberries, southern tradition 😊, ham, sides are either scalloped potatoes for cold weather, more formal, warm weather more picnic fare, potato salad, rolls, veggie, full olives, pickles, and such

[@Count_Smackula]

Nope, not gonna google "hot cross buns" or "simnel cake". I'll continue to float in blissful ignorance until I find myself in Great Britain some Easter.

[@Count_Smackula]

@hawkturkey Thanks for the heads-up. Guess there's no real hurry then. 😀

[@qwincyq6412]

They’re not just “regular buns”! They have raisins and peel in them and a hint of cinnamon. The cross can be carved into the dough, or added with white icing after baking. A Canadian staple of the season. Some bakeries even bring them out at Christmas. But that’s just wrong.

[@lu_shulmu]

@hawkturkey You've never been anywhere near a British hot cross bun, have you? First of all, the cross is made by applying a thick paste of water and flour, never icing. The bun itself is a spiced fruit bun with sultanas, mixed peel and zest, cinnamon and allspice. Split in half, toasted (under the grill that most British households have as part of their stove) and buttered they are absolutely divine. These days hot cross buns are available as soon as lent starts and sometimes outside the Easter season because people love them so much.

[@jeanross7430]

I live across the pond in South Africa and have seen Simnel cakes being made on tv but not ever come across one. We had Easter egg hunts and we certainly buy hot cross buns, lovely with lots of butter.

[@garyjohnson6875]

Ahh, lamb. Apparently only three cuts of lamb are available for humans: Leg, Rack and Chops. If you type in "lamb" on most grocery stores websites you''ll get those three and then 15 to 20 varieties of dog food! Sad. All I wanted for Easter was lamb shank. I don't think it exists this year.

[@s.d.703]

Lol, growing up, I didn't know that hot-cross buns were real things outside of the song you learn on the recorder.

[@laurawaterfield838]

Growing up in England my nan had these molds that made solid chocolate handed down through generations. Easter was solid chocolate eggs and bunnies. I live in Texas now and still have lamb for Easter. It's nice to see you still have the accent as I. Cheers

[@FlybyStardancer]

I just bought up a bunch of cadbury creme eggs on my weekly shopping trip! Growing up my family would have the same turkey dinner that we’d have for Thanksgiving & Christmas. Dessert wasn’t so prominent, but that’s bexause we had sooooo much candy in our baskets to eat!

[@lynnerodgers4461]

I'm eating Cadbury Mini Eggs this very second. It is 11:35:50 in the am, East Coast USA 🥚🍫

[@spencerwilton5831]

Lynne Rodgers except they aren't proper Cadbury, they are made under licence by Hershey's. Nothing compares to genuine English cadburys

[@lynnerodgers4461]

@@spencerwilton5831 I know sadly. If it were true Cadbury's I would be even more addicted. Feel free to send me some of the real stuff 😊 I will happily supply my address.

[@bobprice9541]

@@spencerwilton5831 While I haven't tried the British version of Cadbury mini eggs, I have tried the British version of Cadbury chocolate bars. The British Cadbury tastes much better than the American version. Smoother texture and a richer chocolate flavor. I think the American version has a funny aftertaste, as do the American mini eggs.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Simple Easter dinner. Pork tenderloin, baked potatoes, and peas. We also ate candy, lots of candy (jelly beans, malted milk balls, Skittles, and Reeses cups).

[@dottiesullivan6410]

Hey Lawrence what a wonderful surprise to hear you actually say the name of Jesus!!!! Big thumbs up for you my British brother👍👍👍👍👍 America is a strange country and by that I mean we will celebrate Easter but we won’t even acknowledge that Jesus is the reason for the season so God bless you for saying it like it is✝️✝️✝️💕🐇

[@louislong6915]

Really, because my Christian friends posted all week about Jesus. Those of us who don't belive in Jesus celebrate it for other reasons. That's what makes America a great place, we're all free to do things how we want.

[@SenoraCardgage]

I strongly recommend looking up the etymology of the word Easter. Plus, the reason the holiday is associated with fertility symbols like rabbits and eggs.

[@SarahCarrico]

This was my first Easter in 37 years without my family, but I was provided some ham my dad smoked, plus a lovely loaf of paska (Hungarian Easter bread), so it was as proper an Easter as possible, and I'm grateful ☺️

[@romarobbins270]

I love hot cross buns!

[@katniptime4me]

Celebrating by watching your videos!! I’m an over the road truck driver, critical supply chain...bringing food for hungry people. Blessings to you and your family. Stay safe and healthy and “wash your hands!”

[@peppermintjamie]

Are you okay? I mean, I know the entire world is in turmoil, but you seem not quite yourself.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

I think everybody including Lawrence is going through emotional upheaval this week. Because quarantine is hitting everyone deeply

[@namelessone3339]

I thought maybe he's a bit hung over from the 12 sherries he had the night before.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

@@namelessone3339 The Hangover might be from the fact that he's in emotional turmoil

[@Michelle-bf7ph]

Oh Lord lol pease stop digging in where you don't belong. "It" might be anything it doesn't matter lol like most ppl who get hung over don't need to say anything but I believe laurence was just being cheeky. Leave stuff alone ☺️ my goodness

[@jenessalarge7621]

Here in Australia we have both Easter eggs and bunnies. And we also have hot cross buns everywhere including the traditional buns with raisins/saltanas/other dried fruit, or apple and cinnamon, or even chocolate chip, or chocolate with chocolate chips.

[@larryfontenot9018]

The UK definitely outdoes the USA in sheep herding. As of 2019, the UK had around 23.1 million of them, while the USA had around 5.2 million. On the other hand, the USA has around 94.8 million cows and the UK has less than 10 million. Apparently, lonely herdsmen in the USA prefer cows, while sheep are still the darlings of the British.

[@bubb5225]

Larry Fontenot The land in the US isn’t good for sheep. The western counties of VA have sheep, though, and I think parts of NV.

[@steveroberts4762]

Weren't the cows in England, MAD? Guess many of them moved to California, so they could be HAPPY cows... 😁

[@lorettatayor5840]

Ate goulash for Easter. Just what hubby wanted, & cheesecake brownies for dessert, still at home.

[@bookbear619]

I'm also American going a number of generations back, but both sides of the family were quite the in-your-face Anglophiles - to the point where my mother would dress me in an orange shirt on St. Patrick's Day. A large number of my mother's ancestors were ejected to Canada during and after the American Revolution. I was taught more respect for the Queen than the President. We celebrated Easter with a mixture of British and American traditions. I hated hot cross buns, mostly because I never liked raisins, but was also given those vile hollow chocolate bunnies that I'm convinced were, as someone else said, made from vaguely chocolate-flavored wax. I only recall having lamb at Easter once, and since my mother's culinary skills were limited to what she called "English Farm Cooking," the lamb didn't go over very well. I remember it tasting very bitter, and when combined with veggies that had all the color and flavor boiled out of them, was especially bad. I think we usually had ham for Easter, or at least I can remember having ham sometimes, but I can't remember if it was considered a "tradition." Ham was always done with brown sugar and raisins, with enough salt added to wipe out a whole herd of slugs. I could go on and on, but I always thought my mom's kitchen was where Phyllis Diller got most of her joke material.

[@joeymama4666]

That's really interesting. Today I think a lot of Americans prefer the queen over the president too.

[@joycedingman]

Love watching your videos. I used to work for an airline and traveled to England frequently and stayed with friends in Yorkshire. Love watching these and I have a few groups I manage I am going to put a link in for your channel. Want to share as you are wonderfully amusing.

[@lordoffire4705]

What would Jesus do? He would go around healing everyone.

[@kelman727]

Lord of Fire Jesus Christ walks into an inn. He hands the keeper three nails and says, ‘Put me up for the night?’

[@MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI-1]

And the Romans would arrest him for breaking stay in tomb orders.

[@karencrawford4068]

My American father, the son of an English mother and a Scottish father, loved hot cross buns. It was not Easter for him without them. I don t like them. Never have. But the tradition continues with our friend, an inner city black lady originally from the deep south. When my dad was looking for them a number of years ago, he asked her if she had seen any available any where. He had to explain them to her. When he told her about the cross on top, she immediately adopted the tradition and went off in search of them for both herself and my dad. My dad has now passed but his tradition has carried on in an unusual way.

[@missygarcia17]

I just found your channel and I just absolutely love your humor. Its very Simon Pegg esque

[@imahick5723]

And now our family our dessert will be bunny cake. The children make it and it is decorated with all kinds of jelly beans and Licorice and icing. In fact the children preferred to dinner!

[@StatsJedi]

Several years my sister would make a Lamb cake (coconut frosted white cake, in a lamb-shaped pan), and I have often made a Pineapple Coconut Pie, with whipped topping.

[@somethingnotreal4674]

My family does pies for holiday desserts, so cake is normally mostly for birthdays or like a random treat.

[@odysseusrex5908]

When I was in college, the owner of the small grocery store i used to shop at must have had a sheep farm on the side. I could regularly get lamb chops there for the less than pork chops. I was happy to indulge.

[@jemmajames6719]

You forgot Easter biscuits Lawerence, always had these growing up, they are very traditional too in the UK.Also eating fish on good Friday is a must!

[@ntamny]

An exuberant 2 legged dog named Lieutenant Dan won the Cadbury 2020 bunny contest. Love Cadbury.

[@MissyM68]

I used to work in a bakery in a Chicago suburb, and we baked hot cross buns yearly. Bunny or lamb-looking cakes, most with coconut were big sells.

[@mermaid1717]

Yup.. Easter candy & coconut cake if we do eat cake.

[@alabamatrixie7379]

I got some delicious hot cross buns here in Washington state. It's a tradition for our family so I was especially happy to find them this year with everything going on💕

[@magnificentfailure2390]

My first job was as a baker's helper at a Swiss bakery here in Tucson, AZ. We made hot-cross buns for two weeks leading up to Easter. Every day, we took the leftover ones from the previous day and mixed them into the dough for the new ones. By Holy Thursday there was so much flavor in there they tasted much better than the ones from the first week. Also, I grew very weary of them. Haven't had one since.

[@maywenearedhel]

Frog eye salad for Easter dessert was always our tradition.

[@swansonlexie]

American here. I've never had carrot cake for Easter (but I honestly love it any time of year). There's a bakery called Great Harvest Bread Co and they make bread in the shape of a bunny. My family gets one every year.

[@theschooldogs.carter1064]

Our family makes bunny cakes- cakes in the shape of a bunny: an adult-made one and one the children make. The type (flavor-chocolate, lemon, etc.) is baker’s choice.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

How fun! I used to make sugar cookies and let my children decorate them. We had loads of fun. We also made hot cross buns together (but I leave out the currants as no one likes them but me).

[@TheDellaniOakes]

@pisswobble There is a chocolate shop in Daytona that used to be owned by a family, and made the most delicious chocolate imaginable. Then they were bought out, and it's commercial grade chocolate. A little bit of my soul died that day.....

[@susanholl5994]

Chocolate cake ftw! Carrot cake pretty good too. Was not planning to eat cake today. But now I want some and have to go bake now. Thanks a lot Lawrence.

[@susanjohnson9795]

I really enjoy you comparison subjects. Thanks