Galaxy Selection Box - 234g

In Britain the selection box is a Christmas fixture, as reliable as the cracker joke nobody laughs at. Every child gets one, usually several, from relatives who did not check with each other. Galaxy's is the one the grown-ups quietly keep for themselves.

People in Canada search for a UK selection box because Christmas morning does not feel finished without one. Galaxy is the milk chocolate a lot of British expats name first when you ask what they miss, so this box tends to be the one they go looking for.

The box is flat enough to slide into a stocking or a parcel, and it sits happily in a cool cupboard until it is needed. It rarely has to wait long. Some people ration it through to Boxing Day. Most people do not.

It sits well alongside the rest of British Christmas food: a tin of chocolates to pass round after dinner, a plate of mince pies, a pudding with something on fire. If you are sending a Christmas gift to someone who misses home, this is the easy bit sorted.