McVitie's BN Tower Milk Chocolate - 285g

In the British biscuit tin, BN sits with the lunchbox crowd, not the posh ones saved for visitors. It is the biscuit you got as a kid, and the one you still reach for when nobody is watching the cupboard.

People in Canada go looking for it because a BN is tied to a very particular memory: a school bag, a squashed packed lunch, prising the two halves apart to get at the chocolate first. You can explain that to someone who grew up elsewhere. They will nod politely. They will not get it.

The tower holds 285g of biscuits stacked in a tube, so they stay in order and travel well. Keep it in a cool, dry cupboard and fold or close it up once it is open, if it survives long enough to need closing. They go in lunchboxes, beside a cup of tea, or straight from the tube on the sofa.

McVitie's is also behind digestives, Hobnobs and Jaffa Cakes, so a BN tower rarely goes in the basket alone. Most people leave with a proper British biscuit shelf in a bag.