Reese's Selection Box - 157g

The selection box is as much a part of a British Christmas as the paper hat. Every chocolate brand makes one, the supermarkets stack them up by the door, and most children end up with three or four from various aunts.

In Canada, people search for one because the format is the memory. The chocolate matters, but what you are really after is that box sitting on the end of the bed on Christmas morning, and the chance to give your own children the same thing.

This one is 157g, so it slips into a stocking without a fight. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and from anyone who knows your hiding places. It is meant to be opened, not saved.

Most people buy it alongside other UK selection boxes, so every stocking gets a different one, or with a tin of Christmas chocolates for passing round after dinner. Nobody has ever complained about having two.