Lyons' Biscuits Viscount - 98g

Britain sorts its biscuits into a strict, unspoken order. Digestives and rich teas do the daily graft. A Viscount sits a rung higher: the one people reach past the custard creams to find, and the one you only offer a guest if you actually like them.

Nobody in Canada stumbles on a Viscount by accident. You search for it because you remember the packet, and once that memory is in your head, nothing else quite scratches the itch. One cup of tea, one biscuit, five minutes back in your nan's front room.

The 98g packet tucks neatly into the cupboard and keeps happily there until somebody finds it. It slips into a lunchbox or a desk drawer just as well, though how long it survives in either is between you and your conscience.

Lyons spent the best part of a century keeping Britain in tea and cake, so a Viscount is at home next to a pot of proper British tea. Most people pick up a box of teabags and another biscuit or two while they are at it, which seems only fair.