Border Biscuits Luxury Chocolate Selection Pack - 730g

In Britain a selection pack like this is the visitor box. It is not the packet you eat standing at the counter, it is the one that comes out when someone's mum pops round, and Border is the Scottish name a lot of people connect with it.

People in Canada go looking for it because a Border biscuit is hard to describe to anyone who has not had one. You can try. It is much quicker to open the box and let them get on with it.

At 730g it is a lot of biscuits in one go, which is rather the point. Keep it sealed in a cool, dry cupboard and close it properly between visits, so the last few are as good as the first. It works for a meeting, a long weekend with guests, or one very determined household.

Border's wider range runs to Dark Chocolate Gingers, Viennese Whirls and Chocolate Crumbles, so if this box goes down well there is plenty more where it came from. Most people pick up a box of proper British tea bags with it, which is only sensible.