Hot cross buns are so popular around Easter time, they have developed a persona of their own. They're as synonymous with Easter as coloured eggs, but they tend to get recognition only once, maybe twice a year. But when they do get noticed, they go big! We searched the web for the best of the best hot cross bun stories and this is what we found.

As the official overseers of springtime, hungryhouse wants you to welcome the season with a springtime party. We'll leave the location up to you, any spot of grass with direct sunlight will do. We've gathered the music, "important" information about spring, and the food to make your springtime party brilliant!

Guinness is good for you. Guinness gives you wings. Guinness was the first beer to be consumed in outer space. These are a few rumours surrounding the magic in a pint of Guinness. In a land filled with luck and gold clad leprechauns, it's no wonder Ireland created a magical beer.

We gathered hungryhouse employees to do a bit of 'company research' surrounding the claims of Guinness. After a few rounds, everyone started spouting off “facts” about Guinness. Our content managers fiercely took notes and googled such statements. Can you sort through this Guinness malarkey?

With Mother's Day on its way, we're curious to know who will be cooking Sunday roast. Does mum get a day off? Will dad be left at the whims of a cruel food-burning-oven? Or will you order takeaway from hungryhouse and tell mum how much you love her?

Your course of action will not change our opinion of you in anyway. We only care that you eat good food! Now, about that roast dinner ...

hungryhouse loves food holidays (shocking, we know). Garlic day on 19/4 keeps the vampires (and potential lovers) away. British Yorkshire pudding day on 5/2 provides a MASSIVE feast day. Chocolate week in October makes chocolate covered bananas, chips, and even bacon, legit.

What food is so tasty, so versitle, and so loved by a nation, that it's allowed the entire month of March? NOODLES!

For Oooodles of Noodles month, formerly known as March, hungryhouse has created a noodle calendar to guide you through heaps and heaps of yumminess. Can you keep up?

At first glance, you may think you are about to audition for your big break. Wrong my friend. Meet our knowledgable* Mother's Day judging panel who will decide which mum deserves a spa day and dinner from hungryhouse.

Simply tell us why your mum is the best and the experts will do the rest.

*they all have mothers

A leap year comes only once in a lifetime*, so you better do something special on 29th February, 2012. This extra day could be spent in so many ways, the options are mind boggling. For example, hungryhouse set out to create the largest artificial date, but someone in UAE beat us to it.

After giving up our dream of building the giant date, we moved on to bigger and better aspirations. What to eat today! Put your mind to rest and check out this food flow chart. It will help you decide what to order and give you insight to the deepest part of your soul**.

*leap years occur every 4 years
**only a horoscope can do that

There ain't no party like a hungryhouse party, 'cause the hungryhouse party has dips! We're not talking about ordinary dips either. For our 6th birthday party, we're referring to dips from the likes of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay. We're hoping to turn our office into a maze of sauces. A dip-topia, if you will.

From guacamole, to minted pea and yoghurt dip, hungryhouse brings you the best party dips to help us celebrate. In a-dip-tion to these recipes, we're giving away £200 in hungryhouse credit to one lucky customer. It's our way of saying thank you for letting us feed you for 6 years and counting.

Is it the pancake itself or the toppings that make those thin sheets of joy so tasty? As Pancake Day draws nearer, this is the question at the top of our list. We asked you on Facebook and Twitter about this glorious day, and we liked what you had to say.

While Pancake Day disguises itself under many names - Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday - one thing is clear, the day before Lent is a day to party. By party, we mean get to know the lingering ingredients in your cupboard before fasting begins.

In addition to pubs and playwrights, bacon is another thing the UK got right. The world has plenty to choose from, but hungryhouse is gonna go right out and say it. This is the land of the best bacon!

Breakfast, lunch, or dinner - doesn't matter - bacon does the trick. In a constant effort to please your taste buds, we would like to share this amazing (and simple) recipe for Brown Sugar Bacon.