Maltesers Large Egg - 194g

In Britain an Easter egg is less a bit of chocolate and more an occasion. The shops fill up with boxed eggs weeks ahead, and Maltesers is one of the names people ask for without having to think about it.

People in Canada go looking for this one because it is the egg they actually had. Not an idea of an Easter egg, the specific box, the one that turned up from a grandparent or sat on the kitchen table until lunch. Easter does not quite feel settled until it appears.

It is a large egg in its own box, which makes it easy to hand over, hide or post. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from a sunny windowsill or a radiator, and it will hold its shape until the moment comes. Then it breaks into shards, which is how sharing starts and how arguments about who got the biggest piece also start.

Plenty of people pick up an ordinary bag of Maltesers alongside it for the grown-ups, who insist they only want a taste. They do not.