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Monday, July 14, 2025

Sales of Hot Cross Buns soar in South

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1564 days ago
20210402

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

 

Sales of Hot Cross Buns soared in bak­eries across South Trinidad yes­ter­day as hun­dreds of peo­ple bought the tasty East­er treat.

At the Puff N’ Stuff Bak­ery, 14,000 buns were pro­duced on Holy Thurs­day.

Out­side the bak­ery at Cir­cu­lar Road, four em­ploy­ees dressed in pink and wear­ing bun­ny ears, en­cour­aged cus­tomers to come for­ward and make pur­chas­es.

“It is the sweet­est, most tasty bun you can find in all of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” em­ploy­ee Janelle Phill said. 

“The frost­ing is thick and tasty, the bun is fluffy and de­li­cious,” she added. 

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Puff N’ Stuff Gre­go­ry Laing said he ex­pe­ri­enced a 25 per cent in­crease in sales this year.

“I get the feel­ing that peo­ple are cel­e­brat­ing oc­ca­sions now more than in the pre­vi­ous pan­dem­ic year. We are see­ing a lot of sales,” Laing said.

Say­ing this was en­cour­ag­ing, Laing added that it was great to see some re­cov­ery hap­pen­ing.

Asked what was re­spon­si­ble for the in­crease, Laing said, “Peo­ple may not be spend­ing mon­ey dai­ly but we do find when each oc­ca­sion comes around, peo­ple are cel­e­brat­ing each oc­ca­sion more than they pre­vi­ous­ly did. They can’t go out as much but they cel­e­brate in their lit­tle ways.”

He said every three hours a fresh batch of buns was tak­en out of the oven.

The price of the bun has re­mained con­sis­tent over the past five years with six buns sell­ing for $36.

Laing not­ed that they have im­proved on the qual­i­ty of the bun over the years.

Mean­while, at KL’s Bak­ery in Palmyra, man­ag­er Ter­ry Latch­man re­port­ed a 50 per cent in­crease in sales this week.

“It dou­bled our or­ders this year when com­pared to last year. It’s been a con­tin­u­ous flow this year. Last year it was slow­er. I guess peo­ple are more up and about. When we had the lock­down, peo­ple didn’t come out,” he added.

At­tongs Bak­ery, an em­ploy­ee al­so re­port­ed a dra­mat­ic in­crease in the sale of the hot cross buns.

“We are very busy and we ex­pect it will get busier lat­er.”

At Af­fans Bak­ery, a spokesper­son said they do not pro­duce buns in large quan­ti­ties not­ing that sales re­mained “nor­mal” when com­pared to last year.

Ami­rah Mo­hammed who was seen pur­chas­ing buns from Puff N’ Stuff Bak­ery said it was a tra­di­tion to pur­chase buns every year.

 “Usu­al­ly on Holy Thurs­day I would go and get my hot cross buns and in the night when I have my cup of tea, I would have it and share it with my kids. They love this,” she said.

Kyle Ramku­mar said he usu­al­ly buys his buns on Good Fri­day. 

“We sit as a fam­i­ly and have them on Good Fri­day morn­ing for break­fast. We do this every year,” he said.

Hot Cross Buns orig­i­nat­ed in St Al­bans, in Eng­land, where Broth­er Thomas Rod­cliffe, a 14th-cen­tu­ry monk at St Al­ban’s Abbey made and dis­trib­uted the bun to the lo­cal poor on Good Fri­day, start­ing in 1361.

The cross is said to rep­re­sent Je­sus’s cru­ci­fix­ion and the spices re­flec­tive of what was used to em­balm Je­sus’s body. 


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