Reese's Advent Calendar - 245g

Advent calendars are serious business in Britain. The supermarket aisles fill up with them long before anyone has bought a tree, and every chocolate brand worth its wrapper wants a spot on the kitchen windowsill. Reese's has claimed its own.

If your Decembers back home always started with a little cardboard door before school, a December without one feels oddly unfinished. People go looking for the UK version because it is the one they hung up, the one the kids argued over, and the ritual matters as much as the chocolate.

It is a flat 245g calendar, easy to prop against the wall or tuck into a parcel heading across the country. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from radiators, and well away from anyone who treats the numbers as a rough guide.

It sits happily with the rest of the British Christmas food in the cupboard: a selection box for Christmas morning, a tin for passing round after dinner, and stocking fillers for the people who insist they are far too old for a stocking.