Mcvitie's Gingerbread Flavour Milk Chocolate Digestives - 266g

In Britain the chocolate digestive is the backbone of the biscuit tin, the one people dunk, argue about and quietly finish. The gingerbread version is its seasonal cousin, turning up when the evenings draw in and the tree goes up.

If you spent your Christmases in the UK, gingerbread digestives are a small but very particular memory. People search for them by name, usually in late autumn, usually right after a phone call home.

They come in a standard 266g packet of round biscuits. Keep them somewhere cool in the cupboard, well away from the radiator, so the chocolate stays where it belongs, and fold the end of the packet over once it is open. They go with a mug of tea, a coffee, or a glass of milk left out on Christmas Eve.

McVitie's makes plenty to keep them company: plain milk and dark chocolate digestives, Hobnobs, Rich Tea and Jaffa Cakes. A packet of these tucked into a parcel with a box of proper tea does a lot of work for someone who misses home.