Paddington Bear Milk Chocolate Buttons Gift Tin - 120g

Chocolate buttons sit right at the start of British chocolate. They are the first chocolate a lot of children are allowed, the thing in the party bag, the bribe in the supermarket queue. Put Paddington on the tin and you have two bits of British childhood in one go.

In Canada, people go looking for this for two reasons. Some grew up with the books, the duffle coat and the battered suitcase, and want the bear back. Others have grandchildren who met him through the films and now ask about marmalade constantly. Either way, the tin does the explaining.

Inside are 120g of milk chocolate buttons, in a tin with a lid that goes back on. That alone puts it ahead of any bag ever opened in a car. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator, and ideally out of reach of whoever finished the last lot.

Most people who pick this up put a jar of marmalade in the basket next to it, because it would be rude not to. Then the tin gets kept for years, long after the buttons have become a happy memory.