Maynards Bassetts Mint Favourites - 192g

Mints live in the corner of British life that never changes: the coat pocket, the glovebox, the bowl by the till, the one you are slipped halfway through a long sermon. Maynards Bassetts has been one of the names on that shelf in every newsagent for as long as anyone can remember.

A mint is a mint, right up until it is not your mint. People in Canada look for this one because they remember the bag, the name on it and the exact moment a grandparent's hand went into a pocket and came out with one.

It comes as a 192g bag of British mint sweets, enough to share and just about enough to keep. Store it somewhere cool and dry, out of the sun, and it keeps happily in the cupboard. Tip some into a bowl for visitors, or leave the bag in the car for traffic.

Maynards Bassetts also makes Wine Gums, Jelly Babies and Liquorice Allsorts, so a bag of mints rarely travels to the till on its own. Once one old favourite turns up, the others tend to follow.