Bonds of London Double Chocolate Toffee - 100g

Toffee is one of those British sweets that never needed a reinvention. It sat in the sweet shop jar, it sat in your nan's handbag, and it sat in your teeth for a good ten minutes afterwards. Double chocolate toffee is the version for anyone who looked at plain toffee and thought it could do with a bit more chocolate. Twice, apparently.

People in Canada go looking for this kind of thing because a sweet is rarely just a sweet. It is the corner shop on the way home from school, or the pocket of a coat on a cold walk. You remember the taste exactly, and you want that one, not a near miss.

The pack is small enough to live in a desk drawer, a glovebox or the back of the cupboard, where it will be hidden from nobody. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, because toffee and a sunny windowsill do not get on.

It goes very well with a cup of tea and a quiet ten minutes. Most people add it to a basket of other British sweets and a packet of proper tea while they are at it.