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Ravenous customers have been queueing for hours to get their hands on a Brighton bakery's legendary treat. The line was around the block as dough-loving diners waited patiently for one of the hot cross buns at Raven's Bakery in Ditchling Road. Sarah Turner, 48, from Portslade and her 14-year-old daughter, Hollie, were up with lark to get their hands on some buns.
"I've been coming every year since I was a child. They're just so moist and juicy - really tasty", Sarah said. "We don't eat hot cross buns from supermarkets, only Raven's.
"There are queues most days, but I only ever come on Good Friday." One bun lover was queueing from 6.30am.
The man, who has lived in Brighton for 30 years, said: "By the time Raven's opens at 8am, the queue snakes round the corner and up the road. "We have been coming for years and years - Raven's buns are legendary. We met people in the queue who had come from Worthing, Guildford and London.
"I met one man in the queue whose grandad would take him to get them 30 years ago. Then his dad would get them. Now he's taken up the gauntlet of waking up at silly o'clock to get them.
"There must be some secret ingredient - they're really fluffy, much nicer than shop bought. "Someone turned up with a wheelbarrow to get a shed load. I think they were from the church.
" Queueing for Raven's' hot cross buns has become a Good Friday tradition for many in Brighton. The shop sells thousands of hot cross buns across the Easter weekend..
