Maoam Stripes - 140g

In Britain, Maoam lives on the sweet shelf at exactly child's-eye height, between the things you were allowed and the things you begged for. Stripes were the pocket-money pick: cheap, long-lasting, and easy to split with a mate if you were feeling generous.

In Canada, people go looking for them for the simplest reason. A taste takes you straight back to a school trip, a Saturday sweet run or a grandparent's handbag. Kids raised here by British parents tend to ask for them by name, usually after one trip back.

The pack holds individually wrapped stripes, so they sit happily in a cupboard, a desk drawer or a lunchbox and come out one at a time. Or that is the plan. They also travel well, which matters on a long drive with restless passengers in the back.

Most people do not stop at one British sweet. Maoam Stripes tend to go in the basket with other chews, a few chocolate bars from home and something sour, which is roughly how a proper corner-shop haul has always looked.