McVitie's Tasties Nice - 250g

The Nice lives in the plain biscuit corner of British life, next to the rich tea and the digestive. It is the everyday biscuit of tea breaks, office kitchens and church hall plates, the one nobody makes a fuss about until it is not there.

That is exactly why people in Canada go looking for it. A biscuit that looks a bit like it will not do. You want the shape, the name stamped on top and that first bite with a mug of tea, the way it was at home.

It comes in a 250g packet, which is roughly a week of sensible tea breaks or one honest evening in front of the telly. Once it is open, tip it into an airtight tin and it stays crisp. Dunk briefly. Greed is how biscuits end up at the bottom of the mug.

McVitie's is the name behind a fair chunk of the British biscuit tin, from digestives and Hobnobs to Jaffa Cakes and rich tea. A packet of Nice tends to end up in the same basket as a box of proper British tea, which is how it should be.