Guinness Truffle Can - 125g

Guinness gifts are a fixture of British gift shops and airport shelves, and the truffle can is the easy one: a present for the Guinness drinker that needs no bottle opener and no glass.

Here it gets searched for by people who grew up with that harp on the shelf and want something with it on the front, or who have a Guinness fan in the family and want a gift that will be recognised from across the room. The can is half the joke, and the joke still works.

It is a 125g can of chocolate truffles, small enough to post and solid enough to survive the trip. Keep it in a cool cupboard away from the radiator and it behaves itself. Once the truffles are gone, the can tends to stay on the desk holding pens, which is its retirement plan.

People usually put it in a parcel with a few other things from home: a bag of British sweets, a packet of biscuits, maybe a decent tea. It makes the box look like someone thought about it.