Heinz Carrot & Coriander Soup - 400g

In Britain, a tin of Heinz soup sits in the cupboard the way a kettle sits on the counter: nobody remembers buying it, everyone is glad it is there. Carrot and coriander is one of the soup flavours Britain settled on as its own, and the Heinz tin is the version a lot of people ate at the kitchen table.

Here, coriander tends to go by cilantro, which tells you something. The name alone marks it out as a British soup, and the people who go looking for it are not after carrot soup in general. They want that exact tin, with that exact colour, the one that tastes like a Tuesday at home.

It is a standard 400g tin: one proper bowl for a hungry person, or two smaller ones with a sandwich on the side. It keeps in the cupboard until the weather turns or you do. Into a pan, warm through, done.

People rarely buy just the one. It tends to go in the basket with other Heinz tins, baked beans and cream of tomato soup being the usual suspects, plus a decent loaf for the dunking.