Why offensive? Hot-cross buns and pretzels are have been baked for centuries, originally by monks. And there are Jewish pastries shaped like letters, so that kids might think learing is sweet. Now, as for that English pudding called “dead baby” …
Oh, please, Jenkins! What about cross buns? How about pretzels, which after all, *were originally made to resemble monks folding their arms in prayer?
Anyway, so long as you’re not worshipping the thing, what’s the problem? Or do you actually worship the cross as {shocked gasp} an idol?
*Possible UL Alert!
Freaky simul-post! coincidence, or God-incidence? What more proof do you pagans need?
Your deep sea diving suit is ready, me brave lad.
Tacky? Yes. Silly? Yes?
Offensive? To some, I suppose. But I for one have far better things to get offended about.
Im offended by the amount of chocolate they put in those things 
Its too much!!!
I thought Pretzels got their shape from the “Advanced” pages of the Kama Sutra. 
Um, not to nitpick or anything, but when did a Cross give its life for anyone? I thought it was Jesus who died, not the cross.
Neither Mother Teresa nor Ghandi sacrificed their lives for anyone. Devoting your life to a cause is not the same thing as dying for it. Ghandi being assassinated is not the same thing as Jesus giving up his life on a cross.
Your parallel is not.
Sorry.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
Excuse me for answering the question IMHO. But hey, you asked a question and you got an answer! BTW, think of how dull these boards would be if ya’ll didn’t have me to pick on. 
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Itchy the flea-filled beagle hound.
As a Christian, I find such things tacky, but I certainly don’t lose any sleep over it. One of my mantras in life is for people to grow thicker skins. It seems like every day in the paper someone is squawking about some perceived slight they can only settle with a lawsuit.
“That’s the wrong word!”
“That’s a stereotype!”
“You can’t tell that joke!”
“How dare you portray my race/politics/profession/ religion in that way!” waaaaah!
I am not one of these people.
Offensive? No. But, I wouldn’t buy one, cause I’m on a diet.
For the last couple of weeks, our local bagel shop has been selling “Hot Cross Bagels.” Every time I comment on it to people, I get blank looks. Am I the only one who finds this weird?
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– Cecil Adams
Has anyone heard of the jelly-filled chocolate crucifiction crosses, where if you bite into the cross, all this red jelly comes oozing out? How would you all feel if you saw one of those?
I, for one, think that people who would be offended by a chocolate cross on Easter wouldn’t be the kind of people who read The Straight Dope or its’ message boards, if they’re online at all. Congrats to Cecil! Congrats to the Straight Dope! And congrats for all of us for creating an environment where we can fight ignorance without any infighting! Okay, strike that very last part… hehe…
-SPOOFE
Drain, I’m offended, alright…that you didn’t send me one! (But only in real chocolate, thanks; as Cecil has pointed out, there’s no such thing as white chocolate!)
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On a related topic…
Sitting in front of me now I have “Testamints”. They are individually wrapped mints with Bible quotes on the wrapping. Strange indeed. The mints aren’t bad though.
What is this, some kind of freakout??
Maybe the idea is that by ingestion, the message gets across. If you put chocolate in front of me, you get my undivided attention. To paraphrase Gene Wilder, it’s a compulsion, but I can handle it.
Testa-mints? That’s kind of creepy These people sell (what else?) Bible Gum. Ha ha. Get it?
http://www.xyz.net/~biblegum/home2.html
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Don’t flatter yourself, kid. We’d think of something.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
Look, noodleloaf, just because she disagrees with you doesn’t mean she’s picking on you. I’m picking on you now, so you can tell the distance. Choad.
Besides, is putting a chocolate cross next to the chocolate Easter bunnies any different than setting up the manger scene next to the stuffed Santa Claus under the Christmas tree? I don’t think so.
Course, I am definitely going straight to hell - got my spot all picked out and everything.
Bragging mode on:
I got my CNE!
Bragging mode off.