buns

After their second rise, the buns are ready for a gentle milk wash — the secret to that bakery-window gloss — and a snowfall of shredded Parmesan.

A day’s work might consist of waiting in line for the city’s most-desired cinnamon buns, then finding he won’t be paid at all because someone hit the cancel button on the app.

In Mexico, for instance, that space is joyously celebrated in annual Day of the Dead festivities, with its skeleton trinkets and pan de muerto, sweet buns served at family gatherings.

He made a full recovery but hot cross buns aren't the only unassuming product he's been tripped up by.

For the less revolutionary among us, there is plenty more on the table: steamed buns, red meats, preserved vegetables, rice, seasonal stir-fries and delicately-flavoured seafood.