Maltesers Mini Mint Reindeers - 59g

Maltesers are one of those names a British sweet shop shelf has carried for as long as anyone can remember, and at Christmas the brand grows antlers. The mint ones are for the people who reckon chocolate after a big dinner should come with a bit of freshness attached.

People in Canada go looking for these because a British Christmas has a particular taste, and it is hard to explain to anyone who did not grow up with it. A mint reindeer is a very specific thing to miss. You either know or you do not.

The pack is a small one, light enough to tuck into a stocking or slip into a parcel for someone who misses home. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator, and well away from anyone who only wants the one.

Plenty of people put a bag of ordinary Maltesers alongside them for the purists. Others stack them with the rest of the British Christmas food in the cupboard: the tin of chocolates, the pudding, the crackers whose jokes nobody admits to laughing at.