Cadbury Dairy Milk Chunky Egg - 400g

The Easter egg is serious business in Britain. The shops fill whole aisles with them weeks ahead, and Dairy Milk is the one the rest get measured against. A Cadbury egg on the table is simply the default setting.

People in Canada come looking for this one because the taste is the thing they remember: the milky Dairy Milk of the corner shop, the school trip and the bus home. Grandparents ask for it by name. So do the grown-up children of the people who moved here.

It is one large boxed egg, enough to share round a family or to keep one determined person going for a good while. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill, and it sits happily in the cupboard until somebody finds it. Breaking it open is half the fun.

It tends to go home with a few Dairy Milk bars for the cupboard, or a handful of smaller eggs, so the youngest are not left fighting over the shell.