Cadbury Roses Small Carton - 186g

In Britain, Roses sit in a category of their own: the chocolates you give rather than buy for yourself. They turn up after a lift to the airport, a borrowed ladder or a week of watering someone's tomatoes, and the box is opened that same evening.

People in Canada go looking for them because the habit travels even when the chocolates do not. You want to say thanks the way your mum did, and a box of Roses is how she did it. The twisted wrappers on the coffee table do the rest.

The carton holds 186g of wrapped chocolates, which is a sensible amount for a small thank you or an evening on the sofa with one other person and a firm agreement about who gets what. Kept somewhere cool and dry in the cupboard, it waits patiently until someone does you a favour, or until you decide you deserve one.

Roses come from the same Cadbury that makes Dairy Milk, so they sit happily alongside a bar or two in a parcel for someone who misses home. A box of tea next to them never hurts either.