Nestle Milkybar Raspberry Ripple Large Egg - 236g

In Britain, the Easter egg is serious business. The supermarket aisle fills up weeks ahead, every family has its loyalties, and Milkybar has always been the white chocolate one in the lineup. Raspberry ripple, meanwhile, is the flavour of the ice cream van tub, so this egg is two British memories in one shell.

People in Canada go looking for it because it is the egg they were handed as kids, and they want their own kids to have the same one. Or they simply want Easter morning to taste the way it used to.

It is a large hollow egg, 236g, which is plenty to share and just about enough not to. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill, and it will hold its shape until the big unwrapping.

It sits happily alongside the rest of a British Easter: other eggs for the family hunt, a bag of mini eggs for the bowl on the table, and a pack of hot cross buns for whoever wakes up first.