Every stocking needs one small thing that is gone before the kettle has boiled. This is usually it.
Moo Free Festive Friends are a little pack of Christmas chocolate characters, made for the toe of a stocking and the hour before anyone is properly awake.
They get counted out on the sofa, shared with great ceremony, then quietly finished by whoever was holding the pack. Nobody owns up. Nobody ever does.
If your Christmas in Canada has been missing that bit of British stocking chocolate, here it is.
Frequently asked questions about Moo Free Festive Friends
Q: Is this the UK version?
A: It is, the British pack you remember, and it ships to you from within Canada. Same characters, same small pack, same argument over who gets the last one.
Q: How big is it?
A: It is a 35g pack, which is stocking size. Big enough to feel like a present, small enough that nobody can claim it ruined their Christmas dinner.
Q: Is it a good Christmas gift for someone who misses home?
A: Very much so. Tuck it in a stocking or a parcel with a few other British bits and watch the face when they spot it.
More about Moo Free Festive Friends
A British Christmas has a whole drawer of small seasonal chocolate: the stocking fillers, the bits on the tree, the little packs grandparents hand out at the door. Festive Friends live right in that drawer, between the selection box and the coins.
People in Canada go looking for them because the stocking has to be right. It is not about chocolate in general. It is about the one you had, or the one you want your own children to find on Christmas morning, even if they have never seen a British high street.
The pack is small, so it slips into a stocking, a cracker-sized gap on the table or the top of a gift bag without any fuss. Keep it somewhere cool and dry until the day, which in most houses means well away from the tree lights and a long way from anyone who knows where you hide things.
It rarely travels alone. Most people put it in the basket with a UK selection box and something in a tin for after dinner, and call that the British Christmas food sorted.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
The satsuma comes out of the stocking first, and nobody has ever been excited about the satsuma. Then the chocolate turns up and breakfast becomes optional. Festive Friends are that bit of the morning, made by Moo Free, a family firm in Holsworthy, Devon. You do not need it explained. You just need to get to it before your brother does, because he has already finished his own and is now looking at yours with intent.
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It started with Easter eggs
In 2008 Mike and Andrea Jessop, a husband and wife team, made a small number of Easter eggs. They proved so popular that the pair were flooded with requests for an Advent calendar and other products. So they re-mortgaged their house to pay for machinery and ingredients, then spent two years perfecting the recipe. Moo Free officially launched in May 2010. Two years is a long wait for chocolate. Ask anyone who has stared at an Advent calendar on the thirtieth of November.
Devon, then rather further
The business stayed in Holsworthy. A second manufacturing facility opened there in 2014, right next to the first, to meet rising global demand. In 2016 Moo Free won a Queen's Award for Enterprise after tripling its production capacity to supply the US and Chinese markets, exporting to more than 30 countries. It is still family-run, still led by Mike and Andrea Jessop, and employs over 60 people in Devon. Not bad going for a few Easter eggs and a re-mortgaged house.
You may have walked past it
Back home, Moo Free has been stocked in over 400 Marks and Spencer stores across the UK, so there is a fair chance you passed it on the way to the till. Which is exactly how it ends up in a stocking: grabbed at the last minute, found first thing on Christmas morning. A Christmas gift for someone who misses home does not need to be big. It just needs to be the right one.
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Christmas is on its way
The Christmas range lands from the UK in early November.
The day it arrives we unpack it, pack your order and send it on its way. Advent calendars go first, and everything reaches you within a few days wherever you are in Canada.
Order now and it has your name on it. The favourites go early every year. The people who leave it until December are the ones who miss out.
